Sallie Bingham

• Feb-1972
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1993
• / Literary
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Southern gothic touches lace this dark, portentous story of family lies revealed and grievances redressed. In Passion & Prejudice , Bingham described the bitter conflicts that beset several generations of her own family, which owned the Louisville Co...

• Apr-1996
• / Literary
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• Oct-1996
• / Literary
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Discontented with his staid lifestyle, Colby Winn impulsively picks up a hitchhiker, Ann Lee, and falls in love with her over coffee, but the intensity of their relationship brings out the darkest secrets of their similar Southern upbringings. IP...

• Nov-2002
• / General Fiction
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"Bingham writes with an austere and unerring knowledge of what it is to be human and -- transgressive." -- Paula Fox"These are marvelous stories of experience and have the ripeness of wry, hard-won wisdom." -- Phillip Lopate"Bingham has the eye to se...

• Sep-2005
• / Mystery
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Cory is a middle-aged Easterner, long-divorced, energetic and fearlessly sensual. Pursuing a dream she has nursed for years, she moves to Taos, New Mexico and buys a famous old house and, in the tradition of its previous owner, turns it into a crucib...

• Sep-2006
• / Literary
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Melanie is a dancer-the most unlikely dancer in the world, a woman who has had a hard life, waitressing, raising a son alone, putting up with an abusive husband. Late in life, she decides to pursue one dream, a dream she can't afford, which her husba...

• Apr-2008
• / General Fiction
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“[Sallie] Bingham writes with an austere and unerring knowledge of what it is to be human and transgressive.” -- Paula Fox

“Restrained and wise, these lovely stories unfold like lavender-scented linens, quieting the fretful mind.” --...

• Jun-2010
• / General Fiction
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Poetry. Sallie Bingham's poems forge the light and darkness to shape a body of work that engages and shines. The past and the present, the inner and the outer, are all drawn precisely with small wisdom lines throughout. The poetry leaves us with 'the...

• Sep-2011
• / General Fiction
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Praise for Sallie Bingham:"Sallie Bingham binds her collection together with sheer talent. The title novella is absolutely first-rate -- a skillfully suggestive amalgam of Katherine Mansfield and Eudora Welty. This same unblinking gaze is hard at wor...

• May-2015
• / General Fiction
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A woman’s obsession drives an affair out of control, violating social contracts and devastating the people in its path. For years, Ann and David shared weekends and holidays with country friends Flora and Edwin, even after womanizing Edwin took Ann...

• Aug-2020
• / Women's Fiction
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This rich and accomplished collection showcases the range of a writer at the height of her powers. From the complex stories of artistic influence and the exhilaration and fright of solitude, to the incendiary rage of a betrayed young wife who sacrifi...

• Apr-2024
• / Historical
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A most unusual portrait of early America based on a rare family document, in which a young mother’s years in captivity with the Shawnee prove to be the best years of her life.It's 1779 and a young white woman named Margaret Erskine is venturing wes...