From WSJbooks: Nancy Hale was one of the great short story writers of her time. Yet by the time of her death in 1988, she was nearly forgotten. In 'Where the Light Falls,' editor legroff seeks to correct the record.
By Maureen Corrigan Sept. 27, 2019 11:04 am ET If Nancy Hale can be forgotten, what hope is there for any of us literary folk whose final harvest will likely be neither as plentiful nor prestigious? Given that from the 1930s into the 1970s Hale published seven novels, two memoirs, a biography of Mary Cassatt and more than 80 short stories in the New Yorker alone, and that 10 of her stories were awarded the O.
Let’s begin with some of the standouts. “The Double House” is a devastating 1934 story about the then-unusual subject of childhood depression. An 11-year-old boy named Robert lives in a shabby attached house with his father and Aunt Esther, who has cluelessly commented to Robert that “he was lucky to be a child, for childhood was the only happy time.” Not so for Robert, for he’s bullied at school.
As unmercifully as an Edgar Allan Poe, Hale slowly confines Robert into an ever-shrinking physical and emotional space. “The Double House” is magnificent. Judging from other stories in this collection like “The Earliest Dreams” and “The Empress’s Ring” , Hale was particularly deft at placing herself within the psyches of unhappy children afflicted by a conviction that there was something essentially wrong with them.
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