Powell is an American novelist, short story writer, and critic. In the following positive review of A Virtuous Woman, he maintains that the novel has a "remarkable structure" that compen...
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In the following excerpt, D'Errico favorably assesses A Virtuous Woman, but faults Gibbons's use of multiple narrators in the final chapter as an instance of technique overpowering conte...
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Chandler is an Indian-born American educator, essayist, and critic. In the following review, she examines the themes of loyalty, self-sacrifice, compassion, and love in A Virtuous Woman.
"Un...
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In the following excerpt, Kavaney positively reviews A Virtuous Woman.
Kaye Gibbons's second novel, A Virtuous Woman, has the simplicity of a good Country-and-Western song; where her first, ...
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In the following excerpt, Koenig enthusiastically reviews A Cure for Dreams. She notes, however, that Gibbons appears, occasionally, to confuse morality with self-righteousness.
"When my mot...
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In the following essay, Wood examines Gibbons's first three novels, contending that her writings are "spiritually bracing" because her "characters tell and listen to storie...
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In the following essay, McKee analyzes the uniquely feminine language in Gibbons's A Cure for Dreams and the way that language binds the female characters to a community of women.
Not coinci...
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In the following review, Fisher discusses Gibbons's On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon in terms of its relationship with the author's other works.
During her brief career, Kaye Gibb...
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In the following essay, Souris uses the narrative theories of Mikhail Bakhtin and Wolfgang Iser to analyze the multiple narration of Gibbons's A Virtuous Woman.
And after it all, after it&#x...
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In the following essay, Mason provides an overview of Gibbons's life and career.
Kaye Gibbons has now published two more novels since she burst upon the public's awareness with her 19...
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In the following interview, Summer and Gibbons discuss Gibbons's change of publishers and the development of her fourth novel, Charms for the Easy Life.
In the decade during which she publis...
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In the following review, Cohen discusses the Southern women in Gibbons's Charms for the Easy Life, Pam Durban's The Laughing Place, and Elizabeth Berg's Durable Goods.
Sensitiv...
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In the following essay, Harris asserts that the heroines of several contemporary Southern novels, including Gibbons's Charms for the Easy Life, go beyond the image of Scarlett O'Hara in ...
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In the following essay, Branan describes how language empowers the women in Gibbons's A Cure for Dreams.
Several months before her third novel appeared, Kaye Gibbons voiced anxiety over ...
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In the following review, Kellaway complains that there is not enough material in Gibbons's Sights Unseen to sustain an entire novel.
Kaye Gibbons is a young American writer and [Sights Unsee...
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In the following essay, Lewis praises Gibbons's characterization in her novels and discusses some of Gibbons's memorable heroines.
“I think the Southerner is a talker by nature...
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Critical Review by Padgett Powell
