The annunciation

Ellen Gilchrist

earliest edition we have, 1983 Louisiana State University Press, 2001 353 pages

Voices of the South

"Ellen Gilchrist's debut novel expands the thematic and visual landscapes the author made indelibly hers in radiantly spun stories. The Annunciation follows the desires of Amanda McCamey: an unwed mother on a Mississippi Delta plantation at age fourteen, a wealthy New Orleans matron until her early forties, and now a divorced poetry student living in a university community in the Ozarks. When Amanda finds herself in...

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Editions we hold

The annunciation edition · 2001 · Louisiana State University Press · 353 pages
The Annunciation audiobook · 1989 · Books on Tape, Inc. · 9780736615211
Annunciation paperback · 1985 · Back Bay Books · 353 pages · 9780316313087
annunciation edition · 1984 · Faber · 353 pages
The annunciation edition · 1983 · Little, Brown · 353 pages

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