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...
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[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...
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[The following review provides an evaluation of the collection Women in their Beds and short plot summaries of some of the stories.]
Whether focusing on yuppies or drifters, social workers or India...
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[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...
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[Below, Seaman favorably reviews Women in Their Beds.]
Berriault's title story contains all the key elements of her metaphysical, compassionate fiction. Angela is deeply affected by the wome...
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[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 ...
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[In the following favorable review of Women in Their Beds, George praises the vivid precision of Berriault's work.]
In stories that are part trance, part cinema, Gina Berriault writes about ...
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[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...
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