Gina Berriault Summary

Gina Berriault is able, with a few pen strokes, to create remarkable character portraits and dramatic situations. Her fiction looms large because she follows in the tradition of the nineteenth-century... Read more

[In the following interview, Berriault discusses her writing and motivation.] Gina Berriault has been writing stories, novels, and screenplays for more than three decades. Best known and most honor... Read more

[In the following review, Heller provides a brief discussion of the collection Women in Their Beds.] Despite the title, these stories are not about sex. Using primarily third-person narration, Berr... Read more

[Below, Harshaw gives a mixed review of Women in Their Beds. He praises the prose, but finds the characters too static.] As an alternative to those trivial compendiums of literary opening passages ... Read more

[In the following review, Amdahl strongly praises Berriault's work and asserts that she is a powerful force against the mediocrity of modern fiction.] In the absence of a certain peculiar fo... Read more