Over the past ten years, Gilchrist fans have enjoyed glimpses of headstrong, redheaded Rhoda in five previous collections. Here, for the first time, are the collected Rhoda stories - including two new ones - offering a full-blown portrait of a woman worth
In five stories that are vintage Gilchrist, plus the hilarious title novella -- in which a psychiatrist in a Mississippi town goes mad and begins revealing his patients' deepest secrets and embarrassing misdeeds to anyone who will listen -- one of the con
Rich in irony, sly humor, and vivid, dramatic imagery, the literature of the modern South is a vital amalgam of a once-rural society's storytelling tradition and the painful contradictions and cultural clashes brought about by rapid change. This excellent
Since receiving the National Book Award for "Victory Over Japan in 1985, Ellen Gilchrist has developed a fervently devoted readership. This collection's new novella is vintage Gilchrist, taking on the continuing joys and perils of Nora Jane and company.
From one of our most accomplished short story writers, "Drunk with Love" is a deeply compelling collection full of laughter and tears, pathos and tender humor. In these thirteen stories we come to know some of Ellen Gilchrist's most memorable characters:
A novel featuring Anna Hand, a character first introduced in Drunk With Love, who commits suicide when she discovers she has cancer. Her sister Helen reading her papers as executor is first aghast, then exultant and liberated by her sister's legacy.
The Annunciation follows the desires of Amanda McCarney: an unwed mother on a Mississippi Delta plantation at age fourteen, a wealthy New Orleans matron into her early forties, and now a divorced poetry student living in a university community in the Ozar
IN THE LAND OF DREAMY DREAMS, Ellen Gilchrist's first book, is a collection of 14 short stories. She wrote them after being selected for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Clearly she put her time to good use.
