MUSIC LESSON
Stories by Martha Lacy Hall
"Martha Hall's stories are quiet, well
crafted, and deceptive - deceptive because
under the calm surface, as peaceful as
Main Street in Magnolia, Mississippi, on a
Sunday afternoon, lurk the secret and
sometimes terrible motions of the human
heart. She writes in many voices, a school-
girl's, a housewife's, a World War II vet's,
yet they are all her own." - Walker Percy
"I never cease to marvel when I come
across another born Mississippi storyteller,
and Martha Mall is one of the best. . .. She
is a master craftsman of language and de-
tail; her fiction offers the familiar and
everyday world made new through inten-
sity of vision. People, places, objects be-
come extraordinary take on mystery. Make
no mistake about it, an artist is at work
here." - Louis D. Rubin, Jr., author of
The Literary, South and A Gallery of Southerners.
"Hall knows the deep South thoroughly
and possesses a wonderful comic talent
that reminds one of William Faulkner and,
more especially, of Eudora Welty." -
George Core, editor of The Sewanee Review
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