A Multitude of Sins
by Richard Ford | 
Five Stories
by Willa Cather | 
Final Vinyl Days
by Jill McCorkle | 
Ellis Island and Other Stories
by Mark Helprin | 
Cruising Paradise
by Sam Shepard | 
Emperor of the Air
by Ethan Canin | 
If the River Was Whiskey
by T. Coraghessan Boyle | 
Waltzing the Cat
by Pam Houston | 
A Quiver Full of Arrows
by Jeffrey Archer | 
Passion and Affect
by Laurie Colwin | 
Drunk with Love
by Ellen Gilchrist | 
Rhoda
by Ellen Gilchrist | 
I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting With My Daddy: And Other Stories
by Ellen Gilchrist | 
Victory Over Japan
by Ellen Gilchrist | 
I Cannot Get You Close Enough
by Ellen Gilchrist | 
The Age of Miracles
by Ellen Gilchrist | 
Acts of God
by Ellen Gilchrist | 
Gallatin Canyon
by Thomas McGuane | 
Don't Tell Anyone
by Frederick Busch | 
Swim Back to Me
by Ann Packer |
IN THE LAND OF DREAMY DREAMS is Ellen Gilchrist's fabled first collection of stories, the book that won her acclaim in 1981 and to which each of her subsequent works has been compared. Peopled largely with young southern females who chafe against the restrictions of their upper-class lives, these stories convey the humor and tragedy to be found wherever retreat into imagination is preferred over reality. Introduced here are Nora Jane Whittington, Rhoda Manning, and other recurring Gilchrist characters beloved for their failures, tenacity, and all-too-human hope in the face of frustrated love.