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Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories

by Ellen Gilchrist · 1984

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Fourteen stories focus on a group of southern women who seek happiness and a sense of worth in bars, marriages, divorces, art, drug use, lovers' arms, and earthquakes

Genre
literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
feminismfeminismMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisAmerican SouthAmerican SouthMore like thisLess of thisJapanJapanMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 277 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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