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Product Description: In her 1981 collection of stories, In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, Ellen Gilchrist writes about New Orleans as no other writer. Laced with envy, greed, lust, terror, and self-deceit, her stories will shock and compel readers. Gilchrist’s characters, women who dream of independent lives beyond the shadows of their husbands and fathers, resort to outrageous schemes in pursuit of freedom and fulfillment, despite the consequences...read more

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9781611176612 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, May 10, 2016, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: In her 1981 collection of stories, In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, Ellen Gilchrist writes about New Orleans as no other writer.

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Hardcover:

9781496805751 | 1 edition (Univ Pr of Mississippi, April 13, 2016), cover price $29.95

Paperback:

9781616205720 | Reprint edition (Algonquin Books, November 3, 2015), cover price $15.95

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Product Description: The human race. You have to love it and wish it well and not preach or think you have any reason to think you are better than anyone else. Amen. Good-bye. Peace . . . Master short story writer Ellen Gilchrist, winner of the National Book Award, returns with her first story collection in over eight years...read more

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9781616201104 | Algonquin Books, April 8, 2014, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The human race.

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Product Description: The winner of the National Book Award returns with a moving story of a family of women drawn together by the trials of the times.The women in the Hand family are no strangers to either controversy or sadness. Those traits seem, in fact, to be a part of their family’s heritage, one that stretches back through several generations and many wars...read more

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9781410410061 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 3, 2008), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: 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.
9781565125421 | Algonquin Books, May 13, 2008, cover price $23.95

Paperback:

9781616203795 | Reprint edition (Algonquin Books, April 8, 2014), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The winner of the National Book Award returns with a moving story of a family of women drawn together by the trials of the times.

Presents a collection of stories selected by the author from her fifteen previous collections of short fiction.

Hardcover:

9780316299480 | Little Brown & Co, December 1, 2000, cover price $36.99 | About this edition: Presents a collection of stories selected by the author from her fifteen previous collections of short fiction.

Paperback:

9780316193658 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, December 5, 2001), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Presents a collection of stories selected by the author from her fifteen previous collections of short fiction.

Miscellaneous:

9780316092388 | Back Bay Books, December 19, 2009, cover price $9.99

A single-volume anthology of Nora Jane Harwood stories follows the character from her scrappy adolescence in New Orleans through her eccentric life as a wife, mother, and independent spirit in California.

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9780316058384 | Back Bay Books, August 22, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A single-volume anthology of Nora Jane Harwood stories follows the character from her scrappy adolescence in New Orleans through her eccentric life as a wife, mother, and independent spirit in California.

Miscellaneous:

9780316085212 | Back Bay Books, September 26, 2009, cover price $9.99

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Fifty essays and vignettes centered on the transforming magic of literature and the teaching and writing of it come together in a collection by the critically acclaimed author of Flights of Angels and the National Book Award-winning Victory Over Japan.

Hardcover:

9781578067398 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, March 1, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Fifty essays and vignettes centered on the transforming magic of literature and the teaching and writing of it come together in a collection by the critically acclaimed author of Flights of Angels and the National Book Award-winning Victory Over Japan.

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Original essays by contemporary women of all ages--including Natalie Angier, Ellen Gilchrist, Jill Bialosky, Hope Edelman, and Pam Houston, among others--consider what they have learned in the past twenty years of their lives, in a collection that addresses such topics as careers, sex, motherhood, self-esteem, power, and relationships. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.
By Ellen Gilchrist (editor) and Cathi Hanauer (editor)

Hardcover:

9780066211664 | William Morrow & Co, September 1, 2002, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Original essays by contemporary women of all ages consider what they have learned in the past twenty years of their lives, in a collection that addresses such topics as careers, sex, motherhood, self-esteem, power, and relationships.

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9780060936464 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, September 1, 2003), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Original essays by contemporary women of all ages consider what they have learned in the past twenty years of their lives, in a collection that addresses such topics as careers, sex, motherhood, self-esteem, power, and relationships.

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A collection of short tales highlights different periods in a woman's life, from 'The Abortion,' in which the daughter of a dying man and her boyfriend struggle with their belief systems; to 'Remorse,' in which a hairdresser considers the days before a friend's death. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780316173582 | Little Brown & Co, August 1, 2002, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A collection of short tales highlights different periods in a woman's life, from 'The Abortion,' in which the daughter of a dying man and her boyfriend struggle with their belief systems; to 'Remorse,' in which a hairdresser considers the days before a friend's death.

Paperback:

9780316738682 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, August 1, 2003), cover price $20.99 | About this edition: A collection of short tales highlights different periods in a woman's life, from 'The Abortion,' in which the daughter of a dying man and her boyfriend struggle with their belief systems; to 'Remorse,' in which a hairdresser considers the days before a friend's death.

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Product Description: IN THE LAND OF DREAMY DREAMS is Ellen Gilchrist's fabled first collection of stories, the book that won her acclaim in 1981 and to which each of her subsequent works has been compared. Peopled largely with young southern females who chafe against the restrictions of their upper-class lives, these stories convey the humor and tragedy to be found wherever retreat into imagination is preferred over reality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780938626022 | Univ of Arkansas Pr, January 1, 1981, cover price $14.95

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9780807128299 | Reprint edition (Louisiana State Univ Pr, September 1, 2002), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: IN THE LAND OF DREAMY DREAMS is Ellen Gilchrist's fabled first collection of stories, the book that won her acclaim in 1981 and to which each of her subsequent works has been compared.
9780316313063 | Little Brown & Co, May 1, 1985, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Tells the stories of a flamboyant banker, Black and white school friends, a lonely, beautiful woman, a master of disguise, a tennis cheat, a twin's suicide, a phantom pregnancy, and an unconventional funeral
9780938626039 | Univ of Arkansas Pr, January 1, 1981, cover price $5.95

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A new collection of short fiction by the critically acclaimed author of Victory Over Japan introduces five witty, fun, and passionate new stories, as well as the title novella about a Mississippi psychiatrist who goes mad and begins to reveal his patients' deepest secrets, mishaps, and misdeeds to anyone who will listen. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780316314916 | Little Brown & Co, April 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A new collection of stories by the author of Victory Over Japan introduces five witty, fun, and passionate new stories.

Paperback:

9780316169226 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, June 1, 2002), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction includes the title novella about a Mississippi psychiatrist who goes mad and begins to reveal his patients' deepest secrets, mishaps, and misdeeds to anyone who will listen.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780736656801 | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, February 1, 2002), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: THE CABAL, the hilarious novella that forms the centerpiece of Ellen Gilchrist's new collection of stories, is the story of a group of prominent citizens of Jackson, Mississippi, whose psychiatrist suddenly goes mad, revealing their deepest secrets and embarrassing misdeeds to anyone who will listen.

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Product Description: Ellen Gilchrist's debut novel expands the thematic and unusual landscapes the author made indelibly hers in radiantly spun stories. THE ANNUNCIATION follows the desires of Amanda McCarney: an unwed mother on a Mississippi Delta plantation at age fourteen, a wealthy New Orleans matron into her early forties, and now a divorced poetry student living in a university community in the Ozarks...read more

Paperback:

9780807127360 | Reprint edition (Louisiana State Univ Pr, October 1, 2001), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Ellen Gilchrist's debut novel expands the thematic and unusual landscapes the author made indelibly hers in radiantly spun stories.
9780316313087 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, September 30, 1985), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Amanda is a middle-aged would-be writer whose surprising, passionate affair with a young, unsophisticated Arkansas hill musician parallels the experiences of an obscure, tragic, eighteenth-century French poetess whose work she is translating

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Journal selections describe the author's Mississippi plantation childhood, the influence of books, teachers, and artists on her development, and her thoughts about writing, life, and her grandchildren (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780316313155 | Little Brown & Co, October 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Journal selections describe the author's Mississippi plantation childhood, the influence of books, teachers, and artists on her development, and her thoughts about writing, life, and her grandchildren

Paperback:

9781578062911 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, November 1, 2000, cover price $25.00
9781578062911 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, November 1, 2000, cover price $25.00
9780316313179 | Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1988, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Journal selections describe the author's Mississippi plantation childhood, the influence of books, teachers, and artists on her development, and her thoughts about writing, life, and her grandchildren

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The critically acclaimed author of Victory Over Japan offers an anthology of twenty new short stories that range in setting from a Los Angeles medical clinic that caters solely to hypochondriacs to the home of a large southern family gathering to attend their patriarch's deathbed. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Paperback:

9780316002301 | Back Bay Books, September 13, 1999, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Offers an anthology of twenty short stories that range in setting from a Los Angeles medical clinic that caters solely to hypochondriacs to the home of a large Southern family gathering to attend their patriarch's deathbed

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Sarah Conley leaves Kentucky and the husband she has never loved for New York and a career as a celebrated editor and novelist, but when the man she truly loves becomes available, Sarah must choose between her dreams and her reality. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780316314770 | Little Brown & Co, October 1, 1997, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: Sarah Conley leaves Kentucky and the husband she has never loved for New York and a career as a celebrated editor and novelist, but when the man she truly loves becomes available, Sarah must choose between her dreams and her reality

Paperback:

9780316314923 | Back Bay Books, September 1, 1998, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Sarah Conley leaves Kentucky and the husband she has never loved for New York and a career as a celebrated editor and novelist, but when the man she truly loves becomes available, Sarah must choose between her dreams and her reality

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A teenage runaway gets her life together after she finds herself in new surroundings and pregnant with twins, yet her past finds its way to her and threatens her now peaceful and stable world. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780316314787 | Little Brown & Co, November 1, 1996, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Nora Jane, a former wild girl turned happily married mother of twins, finds herself on the brink of returning to college and facing such challenges as a new singing career, another pregnancy, the return of an old boyfriend, and the assassination of a visiting poet

Paperback:

9780316317719 | Reprint edition (Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1997), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Nora Jane, a former wild girl turned happily married mother of twins, finds herself on the brink of returning to college and facing the challenges of a new singing career, another pregnancy, the return of an old boyfriend, and the assassination of a visiting poet

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Sixteen short stories capture the passions and foibles of contemporary southerners, including a woman who is chased to a healthier climate by dust motes and a pair of strangers who enter a tragic relationship during a vacation in Paris. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780316314428 | Little Brown & Co, May 1, 1995, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories focuses on hopeful, humorous themes and includes the story of three children who travel to New York and kidnap their mother to keep her from getting a face lift

Paperback:

9780316314800 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, April 1, 1996), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories focuses on hopeful, humorous themes and includes the story of three children who travel to New York and kidnap their mother to keep her from getting a face lift

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Product Description: The bestselling author of In The Land of Dreamy Dreams expands her fictional landscape and for the first time recounts a story set in ancient times. 500 B.C.--Pericles is dead; the Golden Age has peaked; and, in its aftermath, in a Grecian setting of declines and fall, a slave girl begins her ascension to freedom and self-discovery...read more

Hardcover:

9780878057269 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, September 1, 1994, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Auria, a slave girl in ancient Greece, rescues a child that has been put out to die and they flee into the mountains, where Auria finds the courage to survive and grow

Paperback:

9780878058211 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Mississippi, September 1, 1995), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The bestselling author of In The Land of Dreamy Dreams expands her fictional landscape and for the first time recounts a story set in ancient times.
9780878058211 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Mississippi, September 1, 1995), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The bestselling author of In The Land of Dreamy Dreams expands her fictional landscape and for the first time recounts a story set in ancient times.

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A collection of all twenty-two previously published short stories featuring the author's most popular character, Rhoda Katherine Manning, a vivacious, wholly liberated writer, is complemented by two new tales. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Paperback:

9780316314640 | Reprint edition (Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1995), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A collection of all twenty-two previously published short stories featuring the author's most popular character, Rhoda Katherine Manning, a vivacious, wholly liberated writer, is complemented by two new tales.

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The story of three couples searching for love and inner peace--as tornadoes devastate middle America and the Soviet Union falls apart on television--features the Hand clan and explores the varied aspects of modern love. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. NYT.

Paperback:

9780316314626 | Reprint edition (Little Brown & Co, May 1, 1995), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: The story of three couples searching for love and inner peace--as tornadoes devastate middle America and the Soviet Union falls apart on television--features the Hand clan and explores the varied aspects of modern love.

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As Olivia de Haviland Hand returns home to explore the Cherokee half of her family history, she encounters instead a tangle of lives and loves. By the author of I Cannot Get You Close Enough. 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Hardcover:

9780316313278 | Little Brown & Co, April 1, 1994, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: As Olivia de Haviland Hand returns home to explore the Cherokee half of her family history, she encounters instead a tangle of lives and loves

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Rhoda finally has everything she has ever wanted, but when she begins to question the simplicity of her upper-class, mid-1950s existence, it throws her into a frenetic and rebellious course toward destruction

Paperback:

9780316314329 | Reprint edition (Little Brown & Co, March 1, 1993), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Rhoda finally has everything she has ever wanted, but when she begins to question the simplicity of her upper-class, mid-1950s existence, it throws her into a frenetic and rebellious course toward destruction

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Rhoda finally has everything she has ever wanted, but when she begins to question the simplicity of her upper-class, mid-1950s existence, it throws her into a frenetic and rebellious course toward destruction. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

Hardcover:

9780316314244 | Little Brown & Co, March 1, 1992, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Rhoda finally has everything she has ever wanted, but when she begins to question the simplicity of her upper-class, mid-1950s existence, it throws her into a frenetic and rebellious course toward destruction

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In 'Winter,' 'De Havilland hand,' and 'A summer in Maine,' characters explore the love between parents and children

Hardcover:

9780316313131 | Little Brown & Co, November 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In 'Winter,' 'De Havilland hand,' and 'A summer in Maine,' characters explore the love between parents and children

Paperback:

9780316314237 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, October 2, 1991), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In 'Winter,' 'De Havilland hand,' and 'A summer in Maine,' characters explore the love between parents and children

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