Nora Jane
Subtitle: a life in stories
By: Ellen Gilchrist
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780316058384
Subjects: Nora Jane Harwood (Fictitious character); Mothers; American Short stories; Fiction; Eccentric families; Men cancer patients; Friendship; Happiness; Women
Description: Ellen Gilchrist's beloved Nora Jane stories, gathered together for the first time in a vibrant, hilarious, and deeply moving collection. Gilchrist fans have long enjoyed their glimpses of smart, willful Nora Jane Harwood in six previous collections. Here now are the collected Nora Jane stories--including a new novella--following her from scrappy adolescence in New Orleans through a delightfully eccentric life as wife, mother, and independent spirit in Berkeley, California.
Table of contents: title: The blue house; title: The famous poll at Jody's Bar; title: Jade Buddhas, red bridges, fruits of love; title: The double happiness bun; title: Drunk with love; title: The starlight express; title: Perhaps a miracle; title: Lunch at the best restaurant in the world; title: The incursions of the goddamn wretched past; title: You must change your life; title: The brown cape; title: The affair; title: A wedding by the sea; title: Gotterdammerung, in which Nora Jane and Freddy Harwood confront evil in a world they never made; title: Fault lines: A novella.