The Annunciation

The Story

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 McCarney: an unwed mother on a Mississippi Delta plantation at age fourteen, a wealthy New Orleans matron into her early forties, and now a divorced poetry student living in a university community in the Ozarks. When Amanda finds herself infatuated with an intense young musician, what at first appears to be a sexual intrigue becomes a grand and impossible passion that unfolds with striking parallels to the life of the eighteenth-century French poetess whose work she is translating. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

A hardcover edition from 1983 of The Annunciation by Ellen Gilchrist. It runs to 353 pages, in very good condition. We hold one copy, so once it is gone it is gone. Shelved under Romance. Wrapped with care for collectors and shipped from Kuwait.