Age of Miracles by Ellen Gilchrist

The Age of Miracles by Ellen Gilchrist. 1995 Little Brown first paperback edition, 260 pages. Gilchrist is a Southern author who won the National Book Award for her collection Victory Over Japan. According to Publishers Weekly, with Age of Miracles: "Gilchrist offers 16 stories that shine with tolerance for the vagaries of human nature....Marked by wit as well as a weathered view of the battle of the sexes, they feature unconventional, strong-willed, impetuous women who hurt those they love, innocent children bewildered by their elders' behavior and one or two shining examples of human beings." Condition: VG. Some pages dog-eared. "In nineteen-eighty-six I was going through a drought."