ISBN: 0316313084
Author: Ellen Gilchrist
Language: English
Publisher: Back Bay Books (September 30, 1985)
Pages: 353
Category: Contemporary
Subcategory: Literature
Rating: 4.1
Votes: 968
Size Fb2: 1197 kb
Size ePub: 1938 kb
Size Djvu: 1630 kb
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Ellen Gilchrist (born February 20, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She won a National Book Award for her 1984 collection of short stories, Victory Over Japan.
Ellen Gilchrist (born February 20, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. Gilchrist was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and spent part of her childhood on a plantation owned by her maternal grandparents. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and studied creative writing under renowned writer Eudora Welty at Millsaps College.
At the heart of Ellen Gilchrist’s novel is the incorrigible Amanda McCamey. Leaving a troubled past behind, she marries into New Orleans’ high society but finds the privileged world stifling and unsatisfying. Seeking a quieter, more meaningful life, she divorces and moves to the Ozarks where she translates poetry and surrounds herself with artists and intellectuals.
Ellen Gilchrist's first novel, The Annunciation, published in '84, brings together both what I love and what . An extremely good start for reading Ellen Gilchrist. Her book while focused on a single character depicts a whole world and many many other people.
Ellen Gilchrist's first novel, The Annunciation, published in '84, brings together both what I love and what I loathe about her work. Gilchrist's writing style is always flowing, very oral, and enjoyable to read, especially as her stories are always very "character driven" as Gilchrist says herself.
Diversion Books, 22 нояб. At the heart of Ellen Gilchrist’s novel is the incorrigible Amanda McCamey
Diversion Books, 22 нояб. At the heart of Ellen Gilchrist’s novel is the incorrigible Amanda McCamey.
Gilchrist, Ellen, 1935-. Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
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At the heart of Ellen Gilchrist’s novel is the incorrigible Amanda McCamey. Leaving a troubled past behind, she marries.
Used availability for Ellen Gilchrist's The Annunciation
Used availability for Ellen Gilchrist's The Annunciation. May 1983 : USA Hardback.
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.
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