Praise for Sallie Bingham:"Sallie Bingham binds her collection together with sheer talent. The title novella is absolutely first-rate—a skillfully suggestive amalgam of Katherine Mansfield and Eudora Welty. This same unblinking gaze is hard at work on the essential weakness and dependence of men ('The Banks of the Ohio' and 'The Ice Party'), the illusion of freedom that comes with divorce ('Bare Bones'), and the desperate terror of adolescent love ('Winter Term')."—James R. Frakes, The New York Times Book Review"Sallie Bingham's characters scrutinize their relationships with children, lovers, and their own treacherous souls. . . . Nearly every one of these flinty stories is a tiny masterpiece."—Entertainment Weekly"Hardened but not compromised by adult life, these luminous stories . . . feature narrators who find mature, often solitary forms of reckoning, and even happiness. . . . There is not a false note in Bingham's striking collection."—Publishers Weekly, starred review"These engaging tales span landscape, gender, and age, and readers will treasure Bingham's strikingly perceptive composition and refined, clever flashes of detail and clarity."—BooklistSallie Bingham published her first novel with Houghton Mifflin in 1961. Since then she has published four collections of short stories, four novels, and a memoir. She was book editor for The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, and has been a director of the National Book Critics Circle. She is the founder of The Kentucky Foundation for Women.

Product Description: Poetry. "Sallie Bingham's poems forge the light and darkness to shape a body of work that engages and shines. The past and the present, the inner and the outer, are all drawn precisely with small wisdom lines throughout. The poetry leaves us with 'the serene best our lives can offer' and 'the small whir of your lively heart...read more

Product Description: “[Sallie] Bingham writes with an austere and unerring knowledge of what it is to be human and transgressive.”—Paula Fox“Restrained and wise, these lovely stories unfold like lavender-scented linens, quieting the fretful mind...read more

Product Description: Melanie is a dancer-the most unlikely dancer in the world, a woman who has had a hard life, waitressing, raising a son alone, putting up with an abusive husband. Late in life, she decides to pursue one dream, a dream she can't afford, which her husband opposes: she will become a skilled ballroom dancer, moving to the old love songs that have never applied to her life...read more

Cory is a middle-aged Easterner, long-divorced, energetic and fearlessly sensual. Pursuing a dream she has nursed for years, she moves to Taos, New Mexico and buys a famous old house and, in the tradition of its previous owner, turns it into a crucible for the transformation of her guests. Eccentric and charming, with a lover from the Pueblo and lots of turquoise and broomstick skirts, Cory finds her guests, mainly skiers and tourists, bewildered by her particular philosophy, which she calls 'The School of As-If.' Then her long-time friend is found murdered and Cory is suspicious of the local police's half-hearted attempts to find the murderer. Involving herself in trying to solve the case, her unleashed power leads to surprising and even terrifying results. Part murder mystery, part adventure, this ground-breaking novel traces the mature lives of Cory and her much more conventional sister Apple, who first appeared in the author's Matron of Honor, described by Publishers Weekly as 'A powerful novel, her best yet.'

Product Description: "Bingham writes with an austere and unerring knowledge of what it is to be human and—transgressive."—Paula Fox"These are marvelous stories of experience and have the ripeness of wry, hard-won wisdom."—Phillip Lopate"Bingham has the eye to see where a story lives, the heart to understand it, and the voice—and craft—to tell it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discontented with his staid lifestyle, Colby Winn impulsively picks up a hitchhiker, Ann Lee, and falls in love with her over coffee, but the intensity of their relationship brings out the darkest secrets of their similar Southern upbringings. IP.

Preparations for Apple Mason's upcoming wedding are upset when her sister, Cory, returns unexpectedly, leaving behind an unhappy marriage

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When Big Tom, a wealthy cousin, decides that Louise's sister, Shelby, should be institutionalized, Louise is determined to oppose him and finds an unexpected ally in Young Tom, her cousin's son

A member of the moneyed Bingham family recounts her family's rise to power over several decades and their subsequent downfall amidst family infighting and rumors of a family murder