Ellen Gilchrist

Ellen Gilchrist returns after eight years with a new short story collection, Acts of God, which follows ten scenarios thematically linked about people dealing with forces beyond their control who somehow manage to survive, persevere, and even triumph. Readers are given a glimpse into the vitality, fear, the joy and redemption of those who remain on this earth.

Hailed as a national cultural treasure by The Washington Post, Ellen Gilchrist is the distinguished author of more than twenty works, including Victory Over Japan, which won the National Book Award. She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas. (jasbro)… (plus d'informations)

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Critically acclaimed writer Ellen Gilchrist, winner of the National Book Award, returns with her first story collection in eight years.

In Acts of God, master short story writer Ellen Gilchrist has crafted a collection that takes us into eleven scenarios in which people dealing with forces beyond their control somehow manage to survive, persevere, and even triumph.

For Marie James, a teenager from Fayetteville, Arkansas, the future changes when she joins a group of friends in their effort to find survivors among the debris left when a tornado destroys a neighboring town. For Philipa, taking control of her own fate is the greatest act of courage she can imagine, and the most difficult. For Eli Naylor, left orphaned by a flood, there arrives the understanding that out of tragedy can come the greatest good. In one way or another, all of these people are survivors who find the strength to go on when confronted with their own mortality, and they come alive in these stories, told with clear-eyed optimism and a salty sense of humor.

As a critic in the Washington Post wrote in reviewing an earlier work, "To say that Ellen Gilchrist can write is to say that Placido Domingo can sing. All you need to do is listen."

Location: Street: 160 Courthouse Sq City: Oxford, Province: Mississippi Postal Code: 38655-3914 Country: United States (ajouté depuis IndieBound)… (plus d'informations)

Ellen Gilchrist, A Dangerous Age: A Novel.

Join us April 19th to celebrate the wonderful new book from Ellen Gilchrist. Because we anticipate a crowd, seating at the reading will be ticketed. The ticket price is the pre-purchase of the novel. After the reading, we will clear the chairs and open the store for a reception and book signing."A Dangerous Age tells 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. By turns humorous and heartbreaking, the novel is a celebration of the strength of these women, and of others like them. In her characteristically clear and direct prose, with its wry, no-nonsense approach to the world and the people who inhabit it, Gilchrist gives voice to women on a collision course with a distant war that, in truth, is never more than a breath away."Ellen Gilchrist is one of America's most celebrated and respected authors, a classic writer in the tradition of Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Elizabeth Spencer. The author of more than twenty books, she was awarded the National Book Award for her short story collection Victory Over Japan. Now, with her first novel in more than a decade, she returns in top form.Unable to attend? Contact us about purchasing a signed copy of the book. (booksense)… (plus d'informations)