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Victory Over Japan

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Author : Ellen Gilchrist
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1940941148
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Victory Over Japan written by Ellen Gilchrist and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-01-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984, this collection of 14 short stories set in Arkansas and Mississippi went on to win that year’s National Book Award for fiction, confirming Ellen Gilchrist’s place as one of the preeminent literary talents of her generation. Victory Over Japan takes us into the lives of an unforgettable group of Southern women — beautiful, complicated, enchanting, and sometimes dangerous — in and out of bars, marriages, divorces, lovers' arms, and even earthquakes, in an attempt to find happiness, or at least some satisfaction. Throughout these stories, one hears echoes of Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty, but Ms. Gilchrist has her own unique literary voice, and it is outrageously funny, moving, tragic, and always appealing. PRAISE: “To say that Ellen Gilchrist can write is to say that Placido Domingo can sing. All you need to do is listen.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post “She is what they call a natural, writing with passion, authority and a noticeable lack of the self-consciousness that weighs down much of contemporary fiction.” —San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle “Ellen Gilchrist’s achievement is to create lives which refuse to be bound on the page by words and sentences . . . the writing is full of understanding that doesn’t advertise itself as perception or insight.” —London Daily Telegraph

Falling Through Space

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Author : Ellen Gilchrist
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578062911
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Falling Through Space written by Ellen Gilchrist and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enhanced with 15 new essays, this collection is the benchmark of an acclaimed writer's spunk and sense of place. Originally published in 1987, "Falling Through Space" provides a funny and intimate diary of a writer's self-discovery. 42 photos.

In the Land of Dreamy Dreams

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Author : Ellen Gilchrist
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1940941156
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book In the Land of Dreamy Dreams written by Ellen Gilchrist and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, Ellen Gilchrist's acclaimed 1981 debut collection of short stories, introduced readers to a remarkable Southern voice which has sustained its power and influence through her more than 20 subsequent books. Gilchrist has a distinctive ear for language, and a deep understanding of her flawed, sometimes tragic characters. These fourteen stories, divided into three sections -- There's a Garden of Eden, Things Like the Truth, and Perils of the Nile -- are about mostly young, upper-class Southern women who are bored with the Junior League and having babies, and chafe against the restrictions of their sheltered lives. Talented and bright, but living in the shadow of men -- their husbands and fathers -- they resort to outrageous actions in pursuit of freer lives and uncompromised love, despite the consequences. This collection first introduced readers to some of Gilchrist's most beloved characters, such as Rhoda Manning and Nora Jane Whittington. PRAISE: "It's difficult to review a first book as good as this one without resorting to every known superlative cliché...Gilchrist is the real thing." —Washington Post “A sustained display of delicately and rhythmically modulated prose and an unsentimental dissection of raw sentiment. Her stories are perceptive, her manner is both stylish and idiomatic – a rare and potent combination.” —Times Literary Supplement “Witty, concise and wonderfully varied.” —Literary Review “Gilchrist possess a distinctive voice, and blends a sense of poignancy with an often outrageously Gothic humor.” —New York Times Book Review “Her prose is quick-witted and urbane and as gossipy as Vanity Fair. Quite simply there is no Southern writer quite like her.” —Raleigh News & Observer

Acts of God

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Author : Ellen Gilchrist
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616203951
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Acts of God written by Ellen Gilchrist and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award winner Ellen Gilchrist presents readers with ten different scenarios in which people dealing with forces beyond their control somehow manage to survive, persevere, and triumph, even if it is only a triumph of the will. From the very young to the very old, in one way or another, they are fighters and believers, survivors.

Rhoda

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Author : Ellen Gilchrist
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1635763460
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Rhoda written by Ellen Gilchrist and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fiction collection, including two new stories, from the award-winning author: “Rhoda is a fully realized creation. And not one to be dismissed lightly.”—Entertainment Weekly From Ellen Gilchrist, a National Book Award winner and “national treasure” (The Washington Post), this volume includes twenty-three stories starring Rhoda Manning—“the shining manifestation of Gilchrist’s wry, intelligent, and passionate writing” (Kirkus Review). Follow Rhoda from age eight to age sixty, as she grows from a hot-tempered, impetuous child to a complex, confident adult. Even at a young age, Rhoda loves to get her way, boasting a unique spark that only shines brighter in an adulthood full of sex and excitement. From diet pills to multiple marriages to far-reaching travels and a writing career, Rhoda’s relentless hunger for adventure will delight all who accompany her on her journeys. “A winner…Rhoda is as real as anyone who has ever ‘lived’ in a book.”—Library Journal “Rhoda loves to shop, swear and get her own way; she has always been a vivid and indelible character.”—Publishers Weekly “One of the most engaging and surprisingly lovable characters in modern fiction.”—Robert Olen Butler

Sarah Conley

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Author : Ellen Gilchrist
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780316314770
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Sarah Conley written by Ellen Gilchrist and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Net of Jewels

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Author : Ellen Gilchrist
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1940941164
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Net of Jewels written by Ellen Gilchrist and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home for the summer in Dunleith, Alabama, Rhoda Manning’s life appears at ease. But the headstrong, passionate 19-year-old refuses to settle for a comfortable, conventional existence. Yearning for a life of profundity, adventure, and beauty, Rhoda breaks from the seemingly secure world of her family to recklessly follow her dreams—but not without tragic and disturbing consequences. A failed marriage, shady abortion, an impulsive decision to sneak into a midnight meeting of the Klan, dates with her shrink, a deluge of booze, and a bout of repentance all seem to vie as the means to Rhoda's own liberation. Gilchrist unflinchingly takes us through the turbulence of Rhoda’s formative years, on an outrageous coming-of-age journey of a young white woman in the 1960’s South—digging through the bone to reveal the chill of human experience. PRAISE: “One of the lies we enjoy telling ourselves is that when we were young, we were crazy and wild. But hey, sensitive, too, and reflective, full of conscience, already evolving into the mature human beings we are now. Ellen Gilchrist`s novel, Net of Jewels, provides an uncomfortable reminder that, more likely, we were controlled by brute forces-our raw emotions and emerging libidos, our parents and our desperate need to fit in, whatever that meant where and when we grew up.” —Chicago Tribune “Ellen Gilchrist refracts life through a prism of precious gems, a net of jewels. Her fiction is always a kind of prose poem, a dance of seven veils. Like all of Gilchrist’s work, her latest novel dazzles and pulsates, and even in the few passages of below-normal sheen, Net of Jewels still qualifies as an almost imperceptibly flawed diamond.” —Los Angeles Times In her ninth book, which begins in the mid-50's, Ellen Gilchrist tracks a 19-year-old who drinks too much, marries too young, and is bored by her own children. The plucky Rhoda Manning has appeared in many of Gilchrist's short stories; in Net of Jewels she positively struts. ...She struggles to free herself from the constraints of upper-crust Southern society, yet insists on enjoying all its advantages. Interestingly, Gilchrist chooses not describe Rhoda's transformation into a ''better'' person ... ''If we could understand one thing entirely, we might understand it all.'' Rhoda philosophizes. ... An engaging novel [with] beauty and emotional horsepower. —Entertainment Weekly

The Age of Miracles

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Author : Ellen Gilchrist
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1940941180
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Miracles written by Ellen Gilchrist and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her exuberantly funny, bittersweet collection, Ellen Gilchrist offers 16 stories that delve into the vibrant lives of her signature strong-willed women. Ranging from hilarity to despair—innocent children bewildered by their elders’ behavior, a writer living on Xanax, and a socialite seeking a health cure only to find romance instead of rest—Gilchrist’s high-spirited characters always tend to find themselves in outrageous situations. The beloved and feisty Rhoda Manning returns, fighting the lure of the bottle while relentlessly going after her dream of becoming a famous writer. And while the restraint of family and society continues to haunt Gilchrist’s characters, they prove fearless and deliciously carve their own chaotic paths toward survival. Set in Fayetteville, Arkansas and New Orleans, Louisiana, the tales are artfully fashioned, providing tastes of marvelously trouble-prone people at every stage of life. Packed with humor, sexuality, and ever true to human weakness, this collection is romantic and full of passion—a treat in which readers will happily indulge. PRAISE: “The Age of Miracles is Ellen Gilchrist’s best book yet. Its comedy, irony, sexuality, inwardness, and sadness, all of it undergirded by a brave and funny sensibility, convince me anew that her work is in the first rank of American fiction today.” —Willie Morris, Author of My Dog Skip and North Towards Home “The Age of Miracles itself seems a miracle, powerfully illustrating the serenity that people sometimes develop as they age, the reward for enduring all the difficulties and disappointments of life.” —San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle “The stories in this collection are among her best.” —Miami Herald

Starcarbon

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Author : Ellen Gilchrist
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1635763487
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Starcarbon written by Ellen Gilchrist and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three couples struggle through tricky relationships in a novel “shot through with an offhand lyricism, snippets of wisdom, and a ready humor” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). After her first year in college, Olivia de Havilland Hand returns home to Tahlequah, Oklahoma, amid tornadoes and the chance for rekindled love. Meanwhile, in New Orleans, her half-sister Jessie tries to keep her new marriage to immature King afloat as she plans for the arrival of their first child. The sisters’ lives intertwine with others as their father fears losing his two daughters, and Olivia’s anthropology professor has a tumultuous affair with a fellow academic. An interconnected web of relationships thrives against the backdrop of a world in transition in this literary rumination on the joys and sorrows of family and love from the National Book Award-winning author. “Gilchrist’s distinctive, flowing voice keeps one engaged throughout.” –Kirkus Reviews “Scattered from North Carolina to New Orleans, with outposts in Oklahoma and Boston, the Hands are forever bouncing up and down on the branches of the family tree to test its strength. As young members struggle for autonomy and older generations fight for control, alliances are formed, allegiances betrayed. And through it all, the Hands talk: to one another, to their psychiatrists, to themselves. In Starcarbon, Ms. Gilchrist has blended these resolutely individual voices to create a richly textured family fugue.”—The New York Times “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.” –Publishers Weekly

Drunk with Love

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Author : Ellen Gilchrist
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1635762200
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Drunk with Love written by Ellen Gilchrist and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There is not a single dud in this brilliant collection…crisp stories about marriage, blood, booze and death and the wayward passions fomented by them.”—Time Out From joyous moments to near insurmountable grief, National Book Award-winning author Ellen Gilchrist gives readers vignettes revealing the lives of some of her most memorable characters. In “Traceleen at Dawn,” we see the wealthy Miss Crystal finally give up drinking after a fire consumes her home. In “1941,” readers meet Rhoda Manning, a precocious nine-year-old facing off with the world of adults for the first time. In “The Last Diet,” a woman on a diet crashes her car into a doughnut shop. And murder takes center stage in “Memphis” and “The Emancipator.” Coming of age, heartbreak, death, and more permeate these brilliant snapshots of life from the author of the award-winning Victory over Japan, Acts of God, and other acclaimed works. “Smart, funny, moving, and elegantly written.”—Vogue “A writer with a distinctive voice and a considerable narrative gift.”—Publishers Weekly “There is not a single dud in this brilliant collection. The crisp stories about marriage, blood, booze and death and the wayward passions fomented by them.”—Time Out

The Annunciation

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Author : Ellen Gilchrist
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316313087
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Annunciation written by Ellen Gilchrist and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short story-writer Ellen Gilchrist's first novel is set among the upper crust in New Orleans.

Ellen Gilchrist

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Author : Ellen Gilchrist
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 031609238X
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Ellen Gilchrist written by Ellen Gilchrist and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2009-12-19 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the publication of 1983's The Annunciation, Ellen Gilchrist established herself as a teller of charming, bittersweet tales of the modern South. Since then, her works of fiction - sixteen in all - have built up a solid base of dedicated fans. With her uncanny insights into human character and the bittersweet complications of love, Ellen Gilchrist occupies a unique place in American fiction.

The Fiction of Ellen Gilchrist

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Author : Brad Hooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313049424
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Fiction of Ellen Gilchrist written by Brad Hooper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-03-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Award for her short story collection Victory Over Japan, Ellen Gilchrist has entertained audiences with her vivid fictional portraits of strong women, eccentric lives, and the difficulties of love and life. Known both for her short fiction and her novels, Gilchrist has been awarded several honors throughout her career, and her work continues to receive both critical and popular acclaim. This book examines her fiction, book by book, and offers an appreciation of her craft through a careful analysis of the stories themselves, their critical reception, and their lasting effect on the reader. Hooper offers the first complete evaluation of Gilchrist's entire fiction oeuvre. Author of such works as In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, The Annunciation , Go Hunting with My Daddy, and several other novels and collections of short stories, Ellen Gilchrist has transcended the bounds of Southern writing, appealing to audiences in all corners of the nation. Here, Hooper celebrates her fiction, focusing on the strong, feisty female characters that populate her works, exerting their will and independence regardless of traditional restraints on their activities. In addition, he pays special attention to her strengths and weaknesses as both a short fiction writer and a novelist, arguing that while her novels may entertain, her lasting contribution to American letters can more easily be found in her short fiction.

A Study Guide for Ellen Gilchrist's "Victory over Japan"

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410361780
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Ellen Gilchrist's "Victory over Japan" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Ellen Gilchrist's "Victory over Japan," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

The Tyranny of the Normal

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Author : Carol C. Donley
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873385350
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Tyranny of the Normal written by Carol C. Donley and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the experiences of those who live outside social norms for beauty, size and shape, as well as the reactions of normal people to those who appear grotesque. The text contains essays on treating those with disorders or deformities, and over 40 stories, poems and plays about abnormality.

New Orleans Stories

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Author : John Miller
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811844949
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book New Orleans Stories written by John Miller and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2004-06-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voodoo. Vampires. Jazz. There's no city quite like New Orleans, a city that whispers stories and where writers come to eavesdrop. New Orleans Stories collects the very best writing on the Big Easy by a stellar gallery of writers for whom the city has played host and muse -- from Walt Whitman and William Faulkner to Anne Rice, Truman Capote, Walker Percy, Tennessee Williams, and Zora Neale Hurston. With a striking new cover, this anthology captures the vibrancy -- and variety -- of New Orleans as it casts its most seductive spell.

American Writers

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Author : Elizabeth H. Oakes
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438108095
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book American Writers written by Elizabeth H. Oakes and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Writers focuses on the rich diversity of American novelists