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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( G ) : Gilchrist, Ellen
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Ellen Gilchrist is one of America's most celebrated and respected authors, a classic writer in the tradition of Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and Elizabeth Spencer. The author of more than twenty books, she was awarded the National Book Award for her short story collection Victory Over Japan. Now, with her first novel in more than a decade, she returns in top form.
A Dangerous Age tells the story of the women of the Hand family, three cousins in a Southern dynasty rich with history and tradition who are no strangers to either controversy or sadness. By turns humorous and heartbreaking, the novel is a celebration of the strength of these women, and of others like them. In her characteristically clear and direct prose, with its wry, no-nonsense approach to the world and the people who inhabit it, Gilchrist gives voice to women on a collision course with a distant war that, in truth, is never more than a breath away.
As the Washington Post has said, "To say that Ellen Gilchrist can write is to say that Placido Domingo can sing. All you need to do is listen."
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IN THE LAND OF DREAMY DREAMS is Ellen Gilchrist's fabled first collection of stories, the book that won her acclaim in 1981 and to which each of her subsequent works has been compared. Peopled largely with young southern females who chafe against the restrictions of their upper-class lives, these stories convey the humor and tragedy to be found wherever retreat into imagination is preferred over reality. Introduced here are Nora Jane Whittington, Rhoda Manning, and other recurring Gilchrist characters beloved for their failures, tenacity, and all-too-human hope in the face of frustrated love.
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This latest collection of thirteen masterful short stories by the author of Victory Over Japan brings more critical acclaim to the writer who has been called "a natural teller of tales."
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DESCRIPTION: At last--Ellen Gilchrist’s beloved Nora Jane stories, gathered together for the first time in a vibrant, hilarious, and deeply moving collection. Gilchrist fans have long enjoyed their glimpses of smart, willful Nora Jane Harwood in six previous collections. Here now are the collected Nora Jane stories--including a new novella--following her from scrappy adolescence in New Orleans through a delightfully eccentric life as wife, mother, and independent spirit in Berkeley, California.
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Ellen Gilchrist's debut novel expands the thematic and unusual landscapes the author made indelibly hers in radiantly spun stories. 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 Ozarks. When Amanda finds herself infatuated with an intense young musician, what at first appears to be a sexual intrigue becomes a grand and impossible passion that unfolds with striking parallels to the life of the eighteenth-century French poetess whose work she is translating.
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Rhoda finally has everything she has ever wanted, but when she begins to question the simplicity of her upper-class, mid-1950s existence, it throws her into a frenetic and rebellious course toward destruction. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.
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The paperback release of Ellen Gilchrist's widely praised new novel, Sarah Conley, will coincide not only with the hardcover publication of Gilchrist's new story collection, Flights of Angels (see page 12), but also with the repackaging of selected backlist titles, including Gilchrist's National Book Award-winning Victory Over Japan. The novel's eponymous heroine, a New York City magazine editor and novelist, returns home to the South when her closest childhood friend falls ill -- and finds herself forced to choose between pursuing her career and rekindling her relationship with the man she has long considered the love of her life.
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Celebrated author Ellen Gilchrist has played many roles-writer and speaker, wife and lover, mother and grandmother. But she never tackled the role of teacher.
Offered the opportunity to teach creative writing at the University of Arkansas, she took up the challenge and ventured into unknown territory. In the process of teaching more than two hundred students since her first class in 2000, she has found inspiration in their lives and ambitions and in the challenge of conveying to them the lessons she has learned from living and writing.
The Writing Life brings together fifty essays and vignettes centered on the transforming magic of literature and the teaching and writing of it. A portion of the collection discusses the delicate balance between an artistic life and family commitments, especially the daily pressures and frequent compromises faced by a young mother. Gilchrist next focuses on the process of writing itself with essays ranging from "How I Wrote a Book of Short Stories in Three Months" to "Why Is Rewriting so Hard?"
Several essays discuss her appreciation of other writers, from Shakespeare to Larry McMurtry, and the lessons she learned from them. Eudora Welty made an indelible impact on Gilchrist's work. When Gilchrist takes on the task of teaching, her essays reveal an enriched understanding of the role writing plays in any life devoted to the craft. Humorous and insightful, she assesses her own abilities as an instructor and confronts the challenge of inspiring students to attain the discipline and courage to pursue the sullen art. Some of these pieces have been previously published in magazines, but most are unpublished and all appear here in book form for the first time.
Ellen Gilchrist, Fayetteville, Arkansas, is the author of many novels and collections of essays, short stories, and novellas, including The Cabal and Other Stories, Flights of Angels, The Age of Miracles, The Courts of Love, In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, Victory Over Japan (winner of the National Book Award), Drunk with Love, Ellen Gilchrist: Collected Stories, and I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy.
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Anna Hand, a rambunctious, passionate, and famous Southern writer, returns home to straighten out the chaos of her family. But just as she forces her brother Daniel to face up to the responsibility of his daughter from an early marriage, she discovers that the vague malaise she has been feeling is cancer and commits suicide by walking into the sea. The papers she leaves behind shock her literary executor and sister Helen, but with the seductive help of her co-executor Helen begins her own liberation and the acceptance of Anna's adventurous--even exotic--credo of life.
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Greeted with a torrent of excited praise, this collection brings together the bestand best-lovedwork by one of the finest storytellers in modern southern literature. The stories span Gilchrists entire career, from In the Land of Dreamy Dreams and the National Book Awardwinning Victory Over Japan to the recent, highly acclaimed Flights of Angels. Gilchrists recurring themes and characters make this book an ideal selection for reading groups.
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Winner of the 1984 American Book Award for Fiction, thislightful, if eccentric, selection of short stories. "The stories are wonderful to tell aloud . . . Miss Gilchrist once again demonstrates not only her willingness to take risks, but her generosity as a writer as well."--The New York Times Book Review.
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Now available in paperback, Gilchrist's work explores the love that binds generations to each other, the love between parent and child, the power of which is as capable of destruction as it is of creation. In these three interconnecting stories, familiar characters from the Gilchrist canon play out the human comedy with tenderness and ruthlessness.
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A collection of all twenty-two previously published short stories featuring the author's most popular character, Rhoda Katherine Manning, a vivacious, wholly liberated writer, is complemented by two new tales. Reprint.
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Enhanced with fifteen new essays, the benchmark of an acclaimed writer's spunk and sense of place
Ellen Gilchrist has amassed a nationwide following, and her readers eagerly anticipate each new short story collection and novel. The sassy and moving commentaries she recorded for National Public Radio were a large part of the original kindling for this intense interest.
In Falling Through Space the spark that first attracted this audience flashes again in fifty-eight short essays drawn from those enormously successful broadcasts. To update and continue the dialogue she has always maintained with her fans, Gilchrist has added fifteen new essays.
Originally published in 1987 by Little, Brown and Company, Falling Through Space provides a funny and intimate diary of a writer's self-discovery. Author of more than a dozen books and winner of the National Book Award, Gilchrist is a beloved and distinctive southern voice whose life and memories are every bit as entertaining as the wild and poignant short stories for which she is famous.
The short essays that anchor this book vividly explore the Mississippi plantation life of her childhood; the books, teachers, and artists who influenced her development; and her thoughts about writing and life in general. Coupled with forty-two pictures from Gilchrist's youth and adulthood, these slices of life create a running autobiography.
In new essays, originally published in such magazines as Vogue, Outside, New Woman, and the Washington Post Sunday Magazine, Gilchrist reveals her origins, influences, and the way she works when she writes. Required reading for any fan, this book is Ellen Gilchrist at her funniest and best. For her readers it confirms her spontaneity and her talent for finding life at its zaniest and brightest.
Ellen Gilchrist is the author of several collections of short stories and novellas including: The Cabal and Other Stories, Flights of Angels, The Age of Miracles, The Courts of Love, In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, Victory Over Japan (winner of the National Book Award), Drunk With Love, and I Cannot Get You Close Enough. She has also written several novels, including The Anna Papers, Net of Jewels, Starcarbon, and Sarah Conley. Her 1994 novel, Anabasis: A Journey to the Interior, was published by University Press of Mississippi. She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
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Sixteen short stories capture the passions and foibles of contemporary southerners, including a woman who is chased to a healthier climate by dust motes and a pair of strangers who enter a tragic relationship during a vacation in Paris. Reprint.
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These 11 tales provide fans with a judicious mix of favorite old characters and the delightful introduction of several new ones. "The author's treatment of contemporary relationships is pointed and beautiful."--Booklist.
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The story of three couples searching for love and inner peace--as tornadoes devastate middle America and the Soviet Union falls apart on television--features the Hand clan and explores the varied aspects of modern love. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. NYT.
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