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  • Sarah Conley

    by Ellen Gilchrist ...
    From National Book Award Winner Ellen Gilchrist, a pillar of Southern literature hailed by the Washington Post as "a national treasure," comes a poignant novel about contemporary living and the sacrifices we make through the various stages of our life."Gilchrist keeps you in the palm of her hand when she tells a story." – Kirkus ReviewSarah Conley is a successful journalist and writer, having ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Falling Through Space

    The Journals of Ellen Gilchrist

    by Ellen Gilchrist ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Cabal and Other Stories

    by Ellen Gilchrist ...
    "The world Ellen Gilchrist unfolds in her vivid new story collection is rich with intimate exchanges between finely etched characters." — The New York Times Book ReviewEllen 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 ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Drunk with Love

    A Book of Stories

    by Ellen Gilchrist ...
    "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 OutFrom 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 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ellen Gilchrist

    Collected Stories

    by Ellen Gilchrist ...
    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. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle

    by Ellen Gilchrist ...
    Fiction from a National Book Award-winning author and "short-story writer of substantial gifts and reputation" ( The New York Times).From National Book Award Winner Ellen Gilchrist, a pillar of Southern literature hailed by the Washington Post as "a national treasure," comes a colorful collection of short stories integrating favorite characters with captivating newcomers. Rhoda's reveling in her ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Starcarbon

    A Meditation on Love

    by Ellen Gilchrist ...
    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 ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Cannot Get You Close Enough

    by Ellen Gilchrist ...
    Three intertwining novellas about love, death, and the bonds of blood: "To say that Ellen Gilchrist can write is to say that Placido Domingo can sing ."—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington PostJourneying through the lives of different members of the Hand family, Ellen Gilchrist weaves together tumultuous relationships that are bound by blood. A harrowing custody battle leads Anna Hand to Istanbul ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Courts of Love

    by Ellen Gilchrist ...
    "A winning collection, filled with humor, love, and just enough human meanness to make things interesting. Gilchrist knows how to tell a story." — KirkusAn indomitable cast of characters comes alive in this collection of shorts and a novella from acclaimed author Ellen Gilchrist.The unsinkable Nora Jane Whittington returns in "Nora Jane and Company," now married and the mother of twins. But when a ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flights of Angels

    by Ellen Gilchrist ...
    The National Book Award–winning Southern authorhumorously explores themes of marriage, love, gender, race, age, and more in eighteen short stories.Unplanned pregnancy, born-again Christianity, and strained sibling relationships are explored through precocious sixteen-year-old narrator Aurora Harris in "The Triumph of Reason," "Have a Wonderful Nice Walk," and "Witness to the Crucifixion." Crystal ... Read more

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  • The Writing Life

    by Ellen Gilchrist ...
    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 ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Anna Papers

    by Ellen Gilchrist ...
    A writer's suicide sends ripples through the world she left behind: "A wonderful book…moving and tender and tough and unsentimental, all at the same time."— Chicago TribuneAn accomplished author with a string of devoted lovers, Anna Hand savors life in all of its bittersweet, fleeting moments. So when she gets a letter and discovers her brother has a daughter he never knew about, she sees a major ... Read more

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