Ellen Gilchrist
Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
From National Book Award Winner Ellen Gilchrist, a pillar of Southern literature hailed by the Washington Post as "a national treasure," comes all twenty-one of her beloved Rhoda stories, plus two new tales starring Rhoda Manning sure to thrill readers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown, & Co
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
From a Southern storyteller and National Book Award—winning author, essays on her childhood, influences, and thoughts on writing and life.
Now, with this collection of essays, readers can explore the author of Victory Over Japan throughout her career. From the Mississippi plantation of her childhood to pieces featured in Vogue, Outside, New Woman, and The Washington Post Sunday Magazine, Gilchrist comes alive.
With more than forty pictures, essays...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The stories in Acts of God are great postcards from the world of Ellen Gilchrist. It's a world of war and strife and surprises, and it is, yes, marvelous to behold." -The New York Times Book Review
Celebrated short story writer Ellen Gilchrist, winner of the National Book Award for Victory Over Japan, returns with her first collection in more than eight years. In Acts of God, she has created ten diverse scenarios populated by characters dealing...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The winner of the National Book Award returns with a moving story of a family of women drawn together by the trials of the times.
The women in the Hand family are no strangers to either controversy or sadness. Those traits seem, in fact, to be a part of their family's heritage, one that stretches back through several generations and many wars. A Dangerous Age is a celebration of the strength of these women and of the bonds of blood and shared...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A novella and nine stories. The novella, Nora Jane and Company, is on a woman with a zest for living, The Dog Who Delivered Papers to the Stars is on a dog caught up in a marital dispute, and in A Man Who Looked Like Me, a woman reflects on the kind of man she should have, but did not marry.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Sarah Conley, 57, a poor Southern girl who rose to be an editor on Time magazine, flies to the bedside of a dying childhood friend and runs into Jack, the friend's husband and Sarah's old flame. He still loves her, but is she the same Sarah?
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Ellen Gilchrist proves herself once again to be a master of the intertwining tale in this collection of stories following the lives of different members of a Mississippi social elite, humorously nicknamed "The Cabal." In the novella that inspired the collection's title, the most powerful person in a room is the one who has been trusted with all of its secrets. This has made psychotherapist, Jim Jaspers', recent bizarre behavior not just worrying,...
16) Net of jewels
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Home for the summer in Alabama, Rhoda Manning seems blessed: her daddy is very rich, she is newly slim, and all of her friends adore her. But the passionate, independent Rhoda begins to realize that life is more than her comfortable, secure existence would suggest. As Rhoda strains against the confinements of home and family, she becomes reckless, flinging herself on a rebellious course toward destruction.
Author
Publisher
University of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
In 5th Century BC Greece, a slave girl is apprenticed to a healer who has taught her to read and write. When the healer dies the girl, Auria, flees to the mountains where she meets up with other runaway slaves who are plotting rebellion. One of them is Meion whom she marries. By the author of Starcarbon.
