Full name: The Courts of Love: Stories

Author: Ellen Gilchrist Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780316314787 0316314781

This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living happily in Berkeley, married and the mother of twins, Nora Jane is back in college, pregnant again, launching a new career, and facing circumstances that imperil her domestic bliss. The nine stories that follow explore the hazards of recapturing and reviving old affairs. Featuring both new and familiar Gilchrist characters, all of these stories shed brilliant new light on the oldest emotion. Similar books: In the Penny Arcade by Steven Millhauser Finding a Girl in America by Andre Dubus Oblivion by David Foster Wallace Overnight to Many Distant Cities by Donald Barthelme The old forest by Peter Taylor Where You'll Find Me by Ann Beattie Drunk with Love by Ellen Gilchrist Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain We Others by Steven Millhauser Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories by John Updike At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom by Amy Hempel The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg Here We Are in Paradise by Tony Earley A Dove of the East by Mark Helprin Read This and Tell Me What It Says by A. Manette Ansay The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau