Ellen Gilchrist, Author Back Bay Books $11.95 (239p) ISBN 978-0-316-31314-8
These 13 short stories take place around the country but there are few Southern characters, which, in many cases, renders these tales less flavorful than the predominantly Southern ones in Victory Over Japan. Still, ""even when Gilchrist's stories...
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Ellen Gilchrist. Algonquin, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-61620-110-4
The South is alive and vibrant in Gilchrist’s latest collection of 11 stories, and so are some of her best-known characters, whom readers first met in Gilchrist’s 1984 National Book Award–winning collection, Victory Over Japan. The redoubtable Rhoda
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Ellen Gilchrist, Author Little Brown and Company $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-31491-6
Veteran fiction writer Gilchrist (Flights of Angels) is in fine form in another group of short stories that display her distinctive voice and eccentric characters. Featuring the title novella, about a social clique that ""runs the town"" of Jackson,
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Ellen Gilchrist, Author Little Brown and Company $22.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-316-31442-8
Back in top form after several books that seemed self-indulgent, Gilchrist offers 16 stories that shine with tolerance for the vagaries of human nature. Set mainly in Fayetteville, Ark., and New Orleans, the tales here have both substance and...
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Ellen Gilchrist, Author Little Brown and Company $22.45 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-31327-8
Gilchrist's marvelous storytelling gifts are abundantly lavished on her new novel, which continues the saga of the Hand family and its intricate network of kinfolk, who can be found scattered through Victory over Japan , Drunk with Love and The Anna
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Ellen Gilchrist, Author University Press of Mississippi $23 (297p) ISBN 978-0-87805-726-9
National Book Award winner Gilchrist (Victory over Japan; Star Carbon) lifts her literary gaze from the exploits of the Hand family to produce this richly textured but overly idealized historical novel. During the Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.)...
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Ellen Gilchrist, Author Little Brown and Company $19.45 (391p) ISBN 978-0-316-31313-1
Gilchrist ( Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle ) brings back familiar characters in three linked, deeply perceptive novellas focusing on the Hand family of Charlotte, N.C. In ``Winter'' famed novelist Anna Hand, ill with cancer, gives her last...
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Ellen Gilchrist, Author Back Bay Books $12.95 (391p) ISBN 978-0-316-31423-7
Readers of Gilchrist's short story collections ( Victory over Japan ; I Cannot Get You Close Enough ) have watched headstrong Rhoda Manning grow into an intelligent, independent yet spoiled and self-destructive adult. In making her the protagonist...
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Ellen Gilchrist, Author Little Brown and Company $17.95 (204p) ISBN 978-0-316-31318-6
Although several stories in Gilchrist's ( The Anna Papers ) latest collection are distinguished by her old magic--they have energy and gusto and humor, and a dark layer of knowledge beneath their nostalgiac tone--too many of them seem self-indulgent
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Ellen Gilchrist, Author . Little, Brown $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-17358-2
Following up on her critically acclaimed Collected Stories, Gilchrist delivers another satisfying collection. As her loyal readers have come to expect, her sure sense of place—whether New Orleans; Wyoming; San Francisco; or Fayetteville, Ark.&
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Ellen Gilchrist, Author Back Bay Books $15.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-316-31464-0
Gilchrist's fictional Southern belle turned writer, Rhoda Manning, has appeared in all five of her previous short-story collections and in the novel Net of Jewels. Rhoda loves to shop, swear and get her own way; she has always been a vivid and...
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Ellen Gilchrist, Author Little Brown and Company $0 (277p) ISBN 978-0-316-31316-2
Jackie is a high school student who finds herself in a cement roomperhaps a cellarwith only a thread of light, a jar of oily water and a box of old donuts and pastries. She doesn't know why a man in a van snatched her off the streets, brought her...
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Ellen Gilchrist, Author Back Bay Books $14.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-316-05838-4
Gilchrist (I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting With My Daddy) gathers 14 moving, lightly humorous short stories (previously published) and a novella (new) starring Nora Jane Whittington, as she robs a New Orleans old-boys bar with icy aplomb and sets off, "
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Ellen Gilchrist, Author Little Brown and Company $34 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-31486-2
Easily her best book in years, this latest collection of 18 stories by Gilchrist features some of her familiar, endearingly eccentric narrators (Rhoda and other members of the Manning family; Crystal and her maid, Traceleen). There are also some new,
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Ellen Gilchrist, Author Little Brown and Company $34 (272p) ISBN 978-0-316-31477-0
Fans who have become a bit tired of the inbred, eccentric cast of characters who generally inhabit Gilchrist's short stories and novels will find the protagonist of this novel to be refreshingly new psychological territory. At 52, Sarah Conley is a...
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Ellen Gilchrist, Author Little Brown and Company $34 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-31478-7
The novella that occupies more than half of this satisfying volume displays many of Gilchrist's characteristics: the reappearance of characters encountered in previous works; frequent foreshadowing and flashbacks; a mix of the mundane and the...
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Ellen Gilchrist, Author . Algonquin $23.95 (245p) ISBN 978-1-56512-542-1
In the latest from Gilchrist—who won the National Book Award for the 1984 story collection Victory over Japan
—the grand Raleigh, N.C., wedding between Winifred “Winnie” Hand Abadie and Charles Kane is canceled when Charles...
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Ellen Gilchrist, Author . Univ. Press of Mississippi $28 (211p) ISBN 978-1-57806-739-8
In this collection of wry and poised autobiographical essays, most previously unpublished, National Book Award winner Gilchrist (Victory over Japan
, etc.) is disarmingly direct in evoking herself as a trapped young wife and mother who returned to...
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