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    Sarah Conley: A Novel
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    Sarah Conley: A Novel

    Written by Ellen Gilchrist

    Narrated by Mary Peiffer

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    About this audiobook

    A New York City magazine editor and novelist returns home to the South when her closest childhood friend falls ill--and finds herself forced to choose between pursuing her career and rekindling her relationship with the man she has long considered the love of her life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 13, 2010
    ISBN9780307877598
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    Sarah Conley: A Novel
    Author

    Ellen Gilchrist

    Ellen Gilchrist (1935-2024) was author of several collections of short stories and novellas including The Cabal and Other Stories, Flights of Angels, The Age of Miracles, The Courts of Love, In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, Victory Over Japan (winner of the National Book Award), Drunk With Love, and I Cannot Get You Close Enough. She also wrote several novels, including The Anna Papers, Net of Jewels, Starcarbon, and Sarah Conley.

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      Maybe Gilchrist doesn't have a novel in her. She's such a good short story writer but this attempt really shows her weaknesses. It's almost like an outline for a novel that she didn't get around to filling in.The book opens with this sharp, detailed description of a pubescent girl--roughly around Gilchrist's age--meeting her best friend. Then we fast forward to college at Vanderbilt and Gilchrist forgets to describe why these girls have stuck together and what has happened to what's her name in the first place.The dating is vague at this point, but since I later concluded it was smack in the 1960s ...well, you can't leave off with the first day of college's clothing (something Gilchrist can whip off when she really knows a period) and never get back to it. How fashions in clothes, drugs and sex changed so rapidly in this time just can't be avoided and the particular permutations at a Southern college would have been interesting. You also have to study up on what kids were reading; you can't just fall back on Shakespeare and Auden.Bigger problems with the menfolk, the brothers that the two friends marry. Again, the outline problem: Gilchirst introduces the brother Sarah marries and forgets to tell anything else about him, never mind what their marriage was like. So then we come to the 1990s and Sarah gets a second chance with the brother she wanted the first time around. You have to hang in a long time, but the novel picks up again with a character and age (feisty middle age) that Gilchrist is so comfortable with, even if the idea that Sarah is working for Time magazine isn't believable. I think it might have worked as a series of two or three stories about Sarah and this man in different times.