Elbow Room | Critical Overview
"Elbow Room" is the title story of James Alan Mcpherson's second short story collection. His first collection, Hue and Cry, established Mcpherson as a major literary voice when it was published in 1969; it included the story "Gold Coast" which was eventually included in the compilation The Best American Short Stories of the Century (1999), selected by John Updike. By the time Elbow Room was published in 1977, critics were looking forward to more of Mcpherson's fiction.
In Newsweek, Margo Jefferson credits Mcpherson with being "an astute realist who...
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