Described by "Publishers Weekly" as "easily Gilchrist's best book in years, " this collection of stories gives readers a taste of her gifted sense of the language and the humor of human foibles.

Flights of Angels: Stories

Literature & Fiction

GILCHRIST, Ellen

United States

Back Bay Books

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.

Nora Jane: A Life in Stories

Literary

The Cabal And Other Stories

A new collection of short fiction by the critically acclaimed author of Victory Over Japan introduces five witty, fun, and passionate new stories, as well as the title novella about a Mississippi psychiatrist who goes mad and begins to reveal his patients' deepest secrets, mishaps, and misdeeds to anyone who will listen. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

The Cabal and Other Stories

Contemporary

A collection of short tales highlights different periods in a woman's life, from "The Abortion," in which the daughter of a dying man and her boyfriend struggle with their belief systems; to "Remorse," in which a hairdresser considers the days before a friend's death. 25,000 first printing.

I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy: And Other Stories

Little,Brown

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.

Ellen Gilchrist: Collected Stories

Little. Brown and Company

Amanda is rich, bored and middle-aged, a would-be-writer who has left her husband and traded New Orleans for the hill country of Arkansas. There she is happily translating an obscure 18th-century French poetess whose illicit affair led to imprisonment and suicide.Amanda finds herself infatuated with a student. What starts as a fling becomes a grand and impossible passion. Then she discovers she is pregnant, as was the woman whose poems she re-creates, and we watch as the parallel stories of these two women unfold, each ending tragically."Gilchrist's manner is both stylish and idiomatic--a rare and potent combination." (Times Literary Supplement)

The Annunciation

Gilchrist, Ellen, Victory over Japan

Victory Over Japan

Short Stories & Anthologies

Tells the stories of a flamboyant banker, Black and white school friends, a lonely, beautiful woman, a master of disguise, a tennis cheat, a twin's suicide, a phantom pregnancy, and an unconventional funeral

In the Land of Dreamy Dreams

Little,Brown & Co

The "funny, wise, and wonderful" (USA Today) book of short stories that won the National Book Award and established Ellen Gilchrist as a leading writer of the American South. In her second collection, Ellen Gilchrist creates an unforgettable group of Southern women, enchanted and enchanting, who cavort through life, in and out of bars, marriages, and divorces, through the world of art and culture, drug busts, lovers' arms, and even earthquakes, in an attempt to find, if not happiness, 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. "Ellen Gilchrist is terrific." --Norman Mailer "This book is a delight." --Cleveland Plain Dealer

Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories (Back Bay Books)

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Flights of Angels: Stories

Nora Jane: A Life in Stories

The Cabal and Other Stories

I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy: And Other Stories

Ellen Gilchrist: Collected Stories

Ellen Gilchrist: Collected Stories

The Annunciation

Victory Over Japan

In the Land of Dreamy Dreams

Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories (Back Bay Books)