Victory Over Japan

Name: Victory Over Japan
Author: Ellen Gilchrist
ISBN: 9781940941141

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Victory Over Japan won the National Book Award for fiction in 1984. This collection of 14 short stories set in Arkansas and Mississippi takes us into the lives of an unforgettable group of Southern women — beautiful, complicated, enchanting, and sometimes dangerous — in and out of bars, marriages, divorces, lovers' arms, and even earthquakes, in an attempt to find happiness, or at least some satisfaction. Throughout these stories, one hears echoes of Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty, but Ms. Gilchrist has her own unique literary voice, and it is outrageously funny, moving, tragic, and always appealing.

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