I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy And Other Stories

by Gilchrist, Ellen

• ISBN13: 9780316738682
• ISBN10: 0316738689
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-12
• Publisher: Back Bay Books

Summary

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 for Victory Over Japan in 1985, Gilchrist has established a large and devoted readership. - Rhoda Manning, one of Gilchrist's most beloved recurring characters, returns in several of these stories-as a child, as a divorced mother of three sons, and as an older woman who recalls the curse and blessing of being Big Dudley's only daughter.

Author Biography

Ellen Gilchrist is the author of many widely acclaimed books, including the story collection Victory Over Japan, for which she received the National Book Award, and Collected Stories, which encompasses nearly two decades of her finest short fiction

Table of Contents

Author's Note	x
I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy	3	(18)
Entropy	21	(14)
A Christmas in Wyoming	35	(44)
On the Wind River in Wyoming	79	(40)
The Golden Bough	119	(16)
Gotterdammerung, In Which Nora Jane and Freddy Harwood Confront Evil in a World They Never Made	135	(52)
The Abortion	187	(34)
Remorse	221	(20)
Alone	241	(28)
Light Shining Through a Honey Jar	269