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Save this story for later. In the summer of 1954, a young writer from Mississippi sat at her typewriter in Florence, finishing a novel. Elizabeth Spencer had already brought out two well-regarded novels of Southern life, before being hospitalized for a nervous collapse; on a Guggenheim fellowship, she’d settled in Italy, where something came into focus about the world she’d left behind. “I could catch in my inner ear the precise intonation of someone saying all the phrases I was brought up hearing,” she later recalled, and those phrases sounded suddenly hollow. In “The Voice at the ...

Wisdom Middle/High School sign (File photo/Don Eno) SAD 33 board plans Monday meeting Contributed • April 11, 2021 The 1047th Meeting of the Maine School Administrative District No. 33 will be held at 6 p.m. on April 12, 2021, at the Wisdom Middle/High School in St. Agatha. ST. AGATHA, Maine — The 1047th Meeting of the Maine School Administrative District No. 33 will be held at 6 p.m. on April 12, 2021, at the Wisdom Middle/High School in St. Agatha. Notice to the public: In accordance with An Act To Implement Provisions Necessary to the Health, Welfare, and Safety of the Cit...

Marian Engel’s classic novel, first published in 1976, is slim, elegant, and inexhaustible.