Description: These twelve stories, told from the viewpoint of young women in life#25;s mid-passage, explore the splendors and miseries of love, both carnal and spiritual, and cast back through sickness and health to the engraving experiences of childhood and forward to the rituals and release of death and its occasion for recall.
Brief description: Elizabeth Irene Cullinan (1933-2020) was an Irish-American writer who started her career as a typist at The New Yorker magazine, which published her stories from 1960 to 1981. She produced two short story collections, The Time of Adam and Yellow Roses, and two novels, House of Gold and A Change of Scene.
Review Quotes: The return to print of Elizabeth Cullinan's Yellow Roses is a great gift to those of us who love the short story form. Place these eloquent, melancholy tales with their fraught humor and their tangled families, their complex emotional wisdom, beside the best of Anton Chekov or Frank O'Connor or Alice Munro and they will more than hold their own. Cullinan reminds us of how the writer's art can illuminate the ordinary moment, pierce the heart of the unspoken, transform dailiness into the stuff of revelation and grace.---Alice McDermott