The Light in the Piazza Audiobook

Quotes

• “Hilary Huber peoples the story with a sympathetic international cast of characters and keeps the morally murky proceedings somehow as light as the title…This production is a delight.”

  — AudioFile

• “It was more than Italy’s light which affected Spencer’s work; the focus of her writing changed while she was there…In writing about Italy, Spencer began to place female protagonists at the forefront. Italy also challenged her to rethink what it meant to be ‘southern.’”

  — Robert Phillips, author and critic

• “Margaret’s poignant attachment to Clara…is symptomatic of the gaps in her own romantic life, as her marriage to a cigarette company executive has grown as stale to her as Italy comes to seem throbbingly alive.”

  — Washington Post

• “Spencer understood that American innocence can be every bit as morally dubious as European sophistication, and a melodrama of black and white is avoided by the grayness of both sides.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “Perhaps [Spencer’s] most triumphantly Jamesian contrast of American and European manners and morals.”

  — Kirkus Reviews