The Mississippi Quarterly, December 22nd, 1999
The Fiction of Ellen Gilchrist, by Margaret Donovan Bauer. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. xii, 211 pp. $49.95 cloth.
THE WORK OF CONTEMPORARY SOUTHERN WRITER Ellen Gilchrist has been inconsistent in quality, to say the least, and before opening to the first page of one of her books, one never knows which Gilchrist is going to show up--the sharp word smith who wrote the short-story collection In the Land of Dreamy Dreams or the disappointing storyteller who seemed to produce Sarah Conley to fulfill some contractual agreement. The critics have both loved and hated Gilchrist, ...
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