Ellen Gilchrist Collected Stories

With an uncanny insight into human nature and its foibles, Gilchrist's short fiction is at once comic and searing. Now for the first time, the author has chosen the best of her published stories to be published in one volume.

Ellen Gilchrist is the critically acclaimed author of a number of novels and short story collections including Victory Over Japan, which won the National Book Award. She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

From In the Land of Dreamy Dreams

The Famous Poll at Jody's Bar

3

(13)

Revenge

16

(16)

There's a Garden of Eden

32

(12)

In the Land of Dreamy Dreams

44

(14)

1944

58

(5)

Summer, an Elegy

63

(17)

From Victory Over Japan

Victory Over Japan

80

(12)

Music

92

(29)

Jade Buddhas, Red Bridges, Fruits of Love

121

(20)

Miss Crystal's Maid Name Traceleen, She's Talking, She's Telling Everything She Knows

141

(13)

Traceleen, She's Still Talking

154

(24)

From Drunk With Love

Drunk With Love

178

(20)

The Young Man

198

(9)

Traceleen at Dawn

207

(15)

Anna, Part I

222

(17)

From Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle

Some Blue Hills at Sundown

239

(5)

The Starlight Express

244

(23)

Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle

267

(24)

Traceleen Turns East

291

(13)

Mexico

304

(65)

From The Age of Miracles

A Statue of Aphrodite

369

(18)

Among the Mourners

387

(12)

The Stucco House

399

(17)

The Uninsured

416

(10)

From The Courts of Love

Perhaps a Miracle

426

(8)

Lunch at the Best Restaurant in the World

434

(7)

You Must Change Your Life

441

(27)

The Brown Cape

468

(27)

Fort Smith

495

(10)

From Flights of Angels

A Prologue

505

(2)

A Tree to Be Desired

507

(20)

Witness to the Crucifixion

527

(10)

A Lady with Pearls

537

(5)

The Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor

542

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Ellen Gilchrist Collected Stories

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