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...Ellen Gilchrist...
THERE ARE SOME striking similarities between Klass' work and Ellen Gilchrist's Drunk with Love. Both document floundering relationships. Both authors create characters who are obsessed with appearances. Each collection includes a story about a diet. Klass' story, "The Secret Lives of Dieters," traces the disintegration of a relationship throughout a diet. Gilchrist's is bathetic. It opens with a report of the death of JeanAnne Lori Mayfield who ended the last diet she ever undertook by crashing into a doughnut shop, killing two people...
...Gilchrist's strength lies in her portrayal of girls and women like JeanAnne Lori, real hellions who drive everybody around them to distraction. One of the most famous is the precocious nine-year old heroine of Victory over Japan--for which Gilchrist won the 1984 American Book Award--Rhoda Manning. She is nasty--a smart, nasty child with a wild imagination. But the women in Drunk with Love are too flashy, too angry and too loud. They don't seem to suffer from living; they are born misfits, albeit amusing and erudite...
...Gilchrist's stories, there aren't any good ones. The relationships falter and die because of the men who are narrow-minded like Rhoda's father, or selfish like the married man in "Anna, Part I" or downright violent like the Lebanese immigrant in "The Emancipator" and the Black husband in "Memphis...
...haul was 1,571 metric tons (a metric ton is 2,205 lbs.), but in the five years ending in 1981, it fell to 1,184 metric tons. In Scotland, where laws concerning salmon fishing date from 1030, the decline is viewed as a national affront. Says Sir Andrew Gilchrist, former chairman of the Highlands and Islands Development Board: "The culmination of increasingly bad years is reducing the attraction of salmon fishing in Scotland to almost negligible proportions." Canada, Norway and the Republic of Ireland have also seen their salmon harvest fall in the past decade...