Flights of Angels. Stories.

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 327. Grey cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine, blind stamped to front; deckled fore-edge. Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye, with rear panel praise from The Washington Post, New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune et al.

Author's fourteenth book. An anthology of eighteen short stories that range in setting from a Los Angeles medical clinic that caters solely to hypochondriacs to the home of a large Southern family gathering to attend their patriarch's deathbed. By the 1984 National Book Award-winning author of Victory Over Japan. Some of the stories in this collection were first published in The Atlantic and Story. "Few pleasures can match the satisfaction of a collection of short stories by Ellen Gilchrist." –Chicago Tribune