Nov 14, 2009
The Cabal and Other Stories | The Cabal and Other Stories
At a glance:
- Author: Ellen Gilchrist
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novella and short fiction
- Time of Work: The present
- Setting: Jackson, Mississippi, and other Southern locales; Beverly Hills, California
- Principal Characters: Caroline Jones, Augustus Hailey, Jim Jaspers, Celia Montgomery, Camilia (CeCe) Montgomery
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Acting or actors, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Poetry or poets, California, Los Angeles, Mississippi, Theater, Colleges or universities, Psychiatry or psychiatrists
- Locales: Beverly Hills, CA, Jackson, MS
“The Cabal” and the five other stories in this volume represent Ellen
Gilchrist’s newest portrayal of the lively, idiosyncratic characters who inhabit her vision of
the New South. Like the characters of Gilchrist’s previous sixteen volumes of fiction, these
share charming voices and strong senses of their own identities as they face the crises that change
imposes on everyone, a major theme of this collection. The collection also includes a story in the
voice of a Gilchrist favorite, Traceleen Brown, who relates the current doings of Crystal
Mallison’s family, to which she is...
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