Ellen Gilchrist Collected Stories

by Gilchrist, Ellen

• ISBN13: 9780316299480
• ISBN10: 0316299480
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-14
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Ellen Gilchrist is the critically acclaimed author of a number of novels and short story collections including Victory Over Japan, which won the National Book Award. She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas. 

Table of Contents

From In the Land of Dreamy Dreams
The Famous Poll at Jody's Bar	3	(13)
Revenge	16	(16)
There's a Garden of Eden	32	(12)
In the Land of Dreamy Dreams	44	(14)
1944	58	(5)
Summer, an Elegy	63	(17)
From Victory Over Japan
Victory Over Japan	80	(12)
Music	92	(29)
Jade Buddhas, Red Bridges, Fruits of Love	121	(20)
Miss Crystal's Maid Name Traceleen, She's Talking, She's Telling Everything She Knows	141	(13)
Traceleen, She's Still Talking	154	(24)
From Drunk With Love
Drunk With Love	178	(20)
The Young Man	198	(9)
Traceleen at Dawn	207	(15)
Anna, Part I	222	(17)
From Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle
Some Blue Hills at Sundown	239	(5)
The Starlight Express	244	(23)
Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle	267	(24)
Traceleen Turns East	291	(13)
Mexico	304	(65)
From The Age of Miracles
A Statue of Aphrodite	369	(18)
Among the Mourners	387	(12)
The Stucco House	399	(17)
The Uninsured	416	(10)
From The Courts of Love
Perhaps a Miracle	426	(8)
Lunch at the Best Restaurant in the World	434	(7)
You Must Change Your Life	441	(27)
The Brown Cape	468	(27)
Fort Smith	495	(10)
From Flights of Angels
A Prologue	505	(2)
A Tree to Be Desired	507	(20)
Witness to the Crucifixion	527	(10)
A Lady with Pearls	537	(5)
The Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor	542