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Title: In the Land of Dreamy Dreams (Voices of the South) by Ellen Gilchrist ISBN: 0-8071-2829-5 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Super ultimo best short-story writer in the universe
Comment: The final story in this book is the best short story I have ever read anywhere. Hands down.
Gilchrist is a writer of rare grace and absolutely flawless ear for the language and foibles of upper-class women from the Delta, viz, Mississippi, Southeast Louisiana, Memphis, and, on occasion, Fayetteville. Most of them have lived in Uptown New Orleans at least some of their lives.
All are spirited, overindulged, bright, lonely, and infinitely memorable. Gilchrist writes of them with compassion and verve, and absolute pinpoint accuracy, right down to the stuffed crab they buy at Langenstein's deli. Most fall prey to substance abuse for part of their lives, and all are have big powerful men in their lives who just don't listen or pay attention.
But Gilchrist's characters are not whining closeted feminists. They do claim their own power and space. And they make the reader love them.
Whenever I read Gilchrist's books, I find myself wondering if she ever gets invited to lunch in New Orleans anymore. She is just too too acurate and skewers too well the pretentions and aspirations of Uptown matrons too accurately for her to have any friends left in the Crescent City.
If you're an outsider and plan to visit deep Delta Dixie, read this book first unless you only want to see the superficial.
The unexpected and sharply tragic ending of this book's final short story will grab you by the throat, and never let go.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ground Zero
Comment: This is a must for any Gilchrist fan. It's her first collection of short stories everyone will be delighted to read about the beginning of Nora Jane, Rhoda and other fabulous characters. All the stories are wonderful, but my favorite is the short wistful piece, "1944." It's not really a story so much as a beautiful fragment of memory.
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Title: The Anna Papers : A Novel by Ellen Gilchrist ISBN: 0316313203 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 10 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Victory Over Japan : A Book of Stories by Ellen Gilchrist ISBN: 0316313076 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 30 September, 1985 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Falling Through Space: The Journals of Ellen Gilchrist (Banner Books) by Ellen Gilchrist ISBN: 1578062918 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Cabal and Other Stories by Ellen Gilchrist ISBN: 0316169226 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 06 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting With My Daddy: And Other Stories by Ellen Gilchrist ISBN: 0316738689 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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