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Gilchrist, Ellen Louise was born on February 20, 1935 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of William Garth and Aurora (Alford) Gilchrist.
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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. NPR sponsorship.
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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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(The fourth collection of stories by Ellen Gilchrist, thes...)
The fourth collection of stories by Ellen Gilchrist, these tales provide a mix of favourite old characters and the introduction of several new ones. She won the 1984 American Book Award for fiction.
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(In her 1981 collection of stories, In the Land of Dreamy ...)
In her 1981 collection of stories, In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, Ellen Gilchrist writes about New Orleans as no other writer. Laced with envy, greed, lust, terror, and self-deceit, her stories will shock and compel readers. Gilchrist’s characters, women who dream of independent lives beyond the shadows of their husbands and fathers, resort to outrageous schemes in pursuit of freedom and fulfillment, despite the consequences. The range of emotions and realities encompassed by Gilchrist’s work is suggested by the story titles: “Rich,” “There’s a Garden of Eden,” “The Famous Poll at Jody’s Bar,” “In the Land of Dreamy Dreams,” “Suicides,” “1957, a Romance,” “Generous Pieces,” “Indignities,” “Revenge,” “Perils of the Nile,” “Traveler,” and “Summer, an Elegy.”
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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)
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In her first story collection in over eight years, 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 who find the strength to go on when faced with the truth of their mortality. And they are given vivid life in these stories told with Ellen Gilchrist’s clear-eyed optimism and salty sense of humor. “Reading Ellen Gilchrist is addictive . . . Her new work is filled with good people who show fortitude and even heroism under duress . . . In this age of edgy irony, her warm-hearted view of humanity is refreshing.” —NPR.org “Gilchrist manages to cut through the loud tussle of the world to present truths made even more striking by how conventional they are . . . 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 “Refreshing, engaging, and inspiring.” —Library Journal “Beautiful, smart, phenomenally rich.”—Booklist, starred review “Gilchrist is at her best when the wry and satirical mood strikes her, especially when she is pricking the balloons of pride that the white Southern upper middle class inflates in its own honor . . . The best of the stories in Acts of God rank with the best in her first collection and in her second, Victory Over Japan, for which she was awarded a richly deserved National Book Award.” —The Washington Post “The salty wit of her characters will make you laugh; their bravery can be breathtaking.”—Birmingham magazine
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The award-winning author returns with her first novel in more than a decade to tell 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.
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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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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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Now available in paperback, the critically acclaimed Net of Jewels focuses on Gilchrist's irrepressible and headstrong heroine, Rhoda Manning. Home for the summer in Dunleith, Alabama, Rhoda seems to live a charmed life until she flings herself on a rebellious course toward destruction.
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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 loss that hold them together. Louise, Winifred, and Olivia are reconnecting the pieces of their lives and rediscovering love, but each is unwittingly on a collision course with a seemingly distant war that is really never more than a breath away. By turns humorous and heartbreaking, this finely honed novel about the centuries-old struggle for women who are left to carry on with life when their men go off to war is by a writer the Washington Post says “should be declared a national cultural treasure.”
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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.
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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 Journals of Ellen Gilchrist 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.
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(The bestselling author of In The Land of Dreamy Dreams ex...)
The bestselling author of In The Land of Dreamy Dreams expands her fictional landscape and for the first time recounts a story set in ancient times. 500 B.C.--Pericles is dead; the Golden Age has peaked; and, in its aftermath, in a Grecian setting of declines and fall, a slave girl begins her ascension to freedom and self-discovery.
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From one of our most accomplished short story writers, "Drunk with Love" is a deeply compelling collection full of laughter and tears, pathos and tender humor. In these thirteen stories we come to know some of Ellen Gilchrist's most memorable characters: Rhoda Manning, a precocious annd impetuous nine-year-old, confronts an adult world she doesn't yet understand in "1941"; the outrageous southern belle Crystal Weiss quits drinking while her devoted maid and confidante, Traceleen, records the riotous tale in "Traceleen at Dawn"; Nora Jane Whittington, the onetime bandit, is now an expectant mother of twins in the title story. With resilience and passion, Gilchrist's stories explore coming of age, heartbreak, curiosity, and more.
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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.
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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 “To say that Ellen Gilchrist can write is to say that Placido Domingo can sing. All you need to do is listen.” ~Jonathan Yardley, 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 is terrific.” ~Norman Mailer “A natural teller of tales.” ~Newsweek “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 “Her stories are perceptive, her manner is both stylish and idiomatic—a rare and potent combination.” ~Times Literary Supplement “... funny, wise, and wonderful.” ~USA Today
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In her exuberantly funny, bittersweet new collection, 'The Age of Miracles, ' ordinary events start the wheel of fate spinning in unexpected directions: a deluge of dust motes leads a socialite to seek a healthier climate, where she finds romance instead of rest.
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A novel by Ellen Gilchrist. "Like someone taking home movies - but with a clearly focused and artfully held lens - Gilchrist catches her people." - The New York Times Book Review
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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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Gilchrist, Ellen Louise was born on February 20, 1935 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of William Garth and Aurora (Alford) Gilchrist.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and studied creative writing under renowned writer Eudora Welty at Millsaps College. Later in life, Gilchrist enrolled in the creative writing program at the University of Arkansas, but she never completed her Master of Fine Arts.
She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Ocean Springs, Mississippi. She is currently a professor of creative writing and contemporary fiction at the University of Arkansas. Gilchrist"s stories are often praised for the characters that reappear regularly throughout her many volumes of short stories.
Her latest book is A Dangerous Age (Algonquin, 2008).
Gilchrist was heard regularly as a commentator on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition from 1984-1985. Her National Public Radio commentaries have been published in her book Falling Through Space.
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(A New York City magazine editor and novelist returns home...)
(In her exuberantly funny, bittersweet new collection, 'Th...)
(The award-winning author returns with her first novel in ...)
(A collection of all twenty-two previously published short...)
(Described by "Publishers Weekly" as "easily Gilchrist's b...)
(IN THE LAND OF DREAMY DREAMS is Ellen Gilchrist's fabled ...)
(IN THE LAND OF DREAMY DREAMS is Ellen Gilchrist's fabled ...)
(From one of our most accomplished short story writers, "D...)
(The fourth collection of stories by Ellen Gilchrist, thes...)
(The bestselling author of In The Land of Dreamy Dreams ex...)
(Now available in paperback, the critically acclaimed Net ...)
(Amanda is rich, bored and middle-aged, a would-be-writer ...)
(Home for the summer in Alabama, Rhoda Manning seems bless...)
(Home for the summer in Alabama, Rhoda Manning seems bless...)
(Ellen Gilchrist's debut novel expands the thematic and un...)
( The winner of the National Book Award returns with a mo...)
( Ellen Gilchrist has amassed a nationwide following, and...)
(In her 1981 collection of stories, In the Land of Dreamy ...)
(Anna Hand, a rambunctious, passionate, and famous Souther...)
(Rhoda and Dudley, Nora Jane and Freddie continue their ol...)
(Winner of the 1984 American Book Award for Fiction, thisl...)
(Home for the summer in Dunleith, Alabama, Rhoda Manning’s...)
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Children: Marshall Peteet Walker, Junior, Garth Gilchrist Walker, Pierre Gautier Walker.