<div>A writer&rsquo;s suicide sends ripples through the world she left behind: &ldquo;A wonderful book&hellip;moving and tender and tough and unsentimental, all at the same time.&rdquo;&mdash;Chicago Tribune An accomplished author with a string of devoted lovers, Anna Hand savors life in all of its bittersweet, fleeting moments. So when she gets a letter and discovers her brother has a daughter he never knew about, she sees a major part of life that has passed her by: a child to love. Desperate to unite this young girl with her father, Anna moves back to Charlotte, North Carolina, to rediscover her family and convince him to accept her. Caught between the politics of her upper-crust family and love for a married man, Anna finds her health in serious danger. When her bad days catch up with her good ones, she must finally face the disease that had been hiding just beneath the surface. Not willing to resign herself to months of aggressive treatment, and knowing the outcome will be the same regardless, she takes matters into her own hands, and surrenders her body to the sea. But it isn&#39;t only Anna&#39;s death that shocks her family. The papers she left behind may lead her sister Helen to discover more about Anna than she, or any of the Hand family, need to know&hellip; &quot;Gilchrist excels in drawing the bonds of love and resentment in sexual and family relationships, and no one who encounters her characters here or in her earlier works will want to miss reading about them again.&quot; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

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<div>Three intertwining novellas about love, death, and the bonds of blood: &ldquo;To say that Ellen Gilchrist can write is to say that Placido Domingo can sing.&rdquo;&mdash;Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Journeying through the lives of different members of the Hand family, Ellen Gilchrist weaves together tumultuous relationships that are bound by blood. A harrowing custody battle leads Anna Hand to Istanbul and back to ensure once and for all that her niece is safe from her conniving mother&rsquo;s ploys. Jessie, finally free from her mother&rsquo;s influence, has her life upended when Olivia, the sister she never knew she had, appears at the Hands&rsquo; home. Between this and the shocking loss of her aunt, Jessie doesn&rsquo;t know if her resentment of Olivia comes from their chaotic meeting or something suspicious bubbling just beneath Olivia&rsquo;s surface. Meanwhile Olivia, the half-Native American child who had never known a normal family, must cope with this new world of high society. Losing Anna, and having a dark and desperate secret exposed, may send her back to Tahlequah&mdash;if it doesn&rsquo;t send her over the edge first. And Anna, leaving a legacy of literature in her wake, may do more harm in death than she ever wanted in life, as her sister enters a vicious fight to recover her lost writing&hellip; &ldquo;Always she takes the long, comic view of her characters&#39; frailties, for only through the chaos they create, she seems to suggest, do family trees writhe toward the light.&rdquo;&mdash;The New York Times &ldquo;Gilchrist brilliantly captures the intimate accents and rhythms of a family under stress.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;A thoroughly engaging work.&rdquo;&mdash;Library Journal</div>

I Cannot Get You Close Enough

<div>A fiction collection, including two new stories, from the award-winning author: &ldquo;Rhoda is a fully realized creation. And not one to be dismissed lightly.&rdquo;&mdash;Entertainment Weekly From Ellen Gilchrist, a National Book Award winner and &ldquo;national treasure&rdquo; (The Washington Post), this volume includes twenty-three stories starring Rhoda Manning&mdash;&ldquo;the shining manifestation of Gilchrist&rsquo;s wry, intelligent, and passionate writing&rdquo; (Kirkus Review). Follow Rhoda from age eight to age sixty, as she grows from a hot-tempered, impetuous child to a complex, confident adult. Even at a young age, Rhoda loves to get her way, boasting a unique spark that only shines brighter in an adulthood full of sex and excitement. From diet pills to multiple marriages to far-reaching travels and a writing career, Rhoda&rsquo;s relentless hunger for adventure will delight all who accompany her on her journeys. &ldquo;A winner&hellip;Rhoda is as real as anyone who has ever &lsquo;lived&rsquo; in a book.&rdquo;&mdash;Library Journal &ldquo;Rhoda loves to shop, swear and get her own way; she has always been a vivid and indelible character.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;One of the most engaging and surprisingly lovable characters in modern fiction.&rdquo;&mdash;Robert Olen Butler</div>

Rhoda

<div>&ldquo;There is not a single dud in this brilliant collection&hellip;crisp stories about marriage, blood, booze and death and the wayward passions fomented by them.&rdquo;&mdash;Time Out From joyous moments to near insurmountable grief, National Book Award-winning author Ellen Gilchrist gives readers vignettes revealing the lives of some of her most memorable characters. In &ldquo;Traceleen at Dawn,&rdquo; we see the wealthy Miss Crystal finally give up drinking after a fire consumes her home. In &ldquo;1941,&rdquo; readers meet Rhoda Manning, a precocious nine-year-old facing off with the world of adults for the first time. In &ldquo;The Last Diet,&rdquo; a woman on a diet crashes her car into a doughnut shop. And murder takes center stage in &ldquo;Memphis&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Emancipator.&rdquo; Coming of age, heartbreak, death, and more permeate these brilliant snapshots of life from the author of the award-winning Victory over Japan, Acts of God, and other acclaimed works. &ldquo;Smart, funny, moving, and elegantly written.&rdquo;&mdash;Vogue &ldquo;A writer with a distinctive voice and a considerable narrative gift.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;There is not a single dud in this brilliant collection. The crisp stories about marriage, blood, booze and death and the wayward passions fomented by them.&rdquo;&mdash;Time Out</div>

Drunk with Love

<div>Fiction from a National Book Award-winning author and &ldquo;short-story writer of substantial gifts and reputation&rdquo; (The New York Times). From National Book Award Winner Ellen Gilchrist, a pillar of Southern literature hailed by the Washington Post as &ldquo;a national treasure,&rdquo; comes a colorful collection of short stories integrating favorite characters with captivating newcomers. Rhoda&rsquo;s reveling in her childhood and infinite possibility in &ldquo;The Tree Fort&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Time Capsule&rdquo; is juxtaposed with her darker adulthood in &ldquo;Mexico.&rdquo; Nora Jane returns alongside Lin Tan Sing, a Chinese medical student and geneticist who predicts the birth of her twins. Fans of Gilchrist won&rsquo;t want to miss the author&rsquo;s exploration of the many stages of life&mdash;and the lightness and darkness each can bring. &ldquo;Several stories in Gilchrist&rsquo;s latest collection are distinguished by her old magic&mdash;they have energy and gusto and humor, and a dark layer of knowledge beneath their nostalgic tone.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;A validation of the author&rsquo;s skill and versatility. Gilchrist creates new experiences for characters from earlier stories and &hellip; creates new characters who reveal her skill in portraying character and place.&rdquo;&mdash;Library Journal</div>

Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle

<div>Three couples struggle through tricky relationships in a novel &ldquo;shot through with an offhand lyricism, snippets of wisdom, and a ready humor&rdquo; (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). After her first year in college, Olivia de Havilland Hand returns home to Tahlequah, Oklahoma, amid tornadoes and the chance for rekindled love. Meanwhile, in New Orleans, her half-sister Jessie tries to keep her new marriage to immature King afloat as she plans for the arrival of their first child. The sisters&rsquo; lives intertwine with others as their father fears losing his two daughters, and Olivia&rsquo;s anthropology professor has a tumultuous affair with a fellow academic. An interconnected web of relationships thrives against the backdrop of a world in transition in this literary rumination on the joys and sorrows of family and love from the National Book Award-winning author. &ldquo;Gilchrist&rsquo;s distinctive, flowing voice keeps one engaged throughout.&rdquo; &ndash;Kirkus Reviews &ldquo;Scattered from North Carolina to New Orleans, with outposts in Oklahoma and Boston, the Hands are forever bouncing up and down on the branches of the family tree to test its strength. As young members struggle for autonomy and older generations fight for control, alliances are formed, allegiances betrayed. And through it all, the Hands talk: to one another, to their psychiatrists, to themselves. In Starcarbon, Ms. Gilchrist has blended these resolutely individual voices to create a richly textured family fugue.&rdquo;&mdash;The New York Times &ldquo;Gilchrist&#39;s marvelous storytelling gifts are abundantly lavished on her new novel, which continues the saga of the Hand family and its intricate network of kinfolk.&rdquo; &ndash;Publishers Weekly</div>

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Books By Ellen Gilchrist (6 Books)

The Anna Papers

I Cannot Get You Close Enough

Rhoda

Drunk with Love

Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle

Starcarbon

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Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle

Starcarbon

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