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This is a collection of short stories about envy, greed, lust, terror and self-deceit in New Orleans. Ellen Gilchrist is the author of "The Annunciation", "Victory Over Japan", "Drunk with Love", "Falling through Space", "The Blue-Eyed Buddhist" and "Light Can be Both Wave and Particle".

With an uncanny insight into human nature and its foibles, Gilchrist's short fiction is at once comic and searing. Now for the first time, the author has chosen the best of her published stories to be published in one volume.

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At last--Gilchrist's beloved Nora Jane stories are gathered together for the first time in a vibrant, hilarious, and deeply moving collection featuring a new novella.

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 l...

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.

A vibrant, passionate engagement with the transcendent joys of family and aging

“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   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 sur...

Set in ancient Greece, a novel that explores a feisty slave girl's flight to liberation

With all the poignancy, hilarity, and wisdom that are the hallmarks of her fiction, Ellen Gilchrist introduces a gallery of unforgettable characters-Southern women and men whose off-kilter lives are delicately revealed by the author's keen and forgiving gaze. This jubilantly acclaimed collection affirms anew why, as the Washington Post puts it, 'Ellen Gilchrist should be declared a national treasure.' - Since winning the National Book Award fo...

Fourteen stories focus on a group of southern women who seek happiness and a sense of worth in bars, marriages, divorces, art, drug use, lovers' arms, and earthquakes.

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.

Greeted with a torrent of excited praise, this collection brings together the best--and best-loved--work by one of the finest storytellers in modern southern literature.