Title: Rhoda
Subtitle: A Life in Stories
Description: Over the past ten years, Gilchrist fans have enjoyed glimpses of headstrong, redheaded Rhoda in five previous collections. Here, for the first time, are the collected Rhoda stories - including two new ones - offering a full-blown portrait of a woman worth waiting for: one of contemporary literature's most enchanting characters, in all her wicked glory.

With a high libido and reckless courage to match, Rhoda is one of those irresistible people who never hold back or take convention too seriously. In these twenty-three stories, arranged chronologically, we follow Rhoda from a precocious kid with a movie-star complex to a coed who makes love to a fraternity boy, and the next week elopes with him, to a middle-aged writer looking for a fling in the age of AIDS.
Subjects: Women poets in fiction, Women poets, Women in fiction, Fiction, Rhoda Katherine Manning (Fictitious character), Women, Fiction, general, Manning, rhoda katherine (fictitious character), fiction, United states, social life and customs, fiction, Social life and customs
Places: United States