The Price You Pay

by Ellen Winter

Winter's fictional landscape--whether it's the Arizona desert or snowy New England--is peopled with renegades and drifters. Sometimes itchy feet make them go, other times an aching heart, but there's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870744569
• ISBN13: 9780870744563
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Southern Methodist Univ Pr
• Length: 50 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Already said by others....

No need to repeat what a brilliant writer Winter is. I am here to ask if anyone knows what happened to this woman. I can't find a trace of her anywhere on the Internet; her phone number in Flagstaff has been disconnected. Not likely this book was not followed up by another, or stories in magazines, or anything at all, if she were still alive.

Winter price is paid from the heart

"The price you pay" is a book about love. Love in its many incarnations. Love as dangerous and destructive, and wonderful and fulfilling as you could ever hope for it to be. Ellen Winter give you a glimps of all the loves and losses that can possibly come into a persons life within these sixteen stories. Her words twist around you and bring you along for the ride, which you take beyond your better judgment. But it's a trip you will never find yourself regretting having taken.

Captivating Book

This is a GREAT book. Ms. Winter has a gift for story telling. She pulls the reader into the world of the main character of each story with stealth ease. She creates her settings through the perspective of the main character and provides only the information the character would notice. There are no extra words. Each story has just what is needed to let you see the essence of its protagonist. She is a master of her craft with an insight into the human soul.Other writers will especially love this book because each story is so masterfully crafted.

EXCELLENT book

I am in complete agreement with all that was written by the reviewer from Washington, DC. This is one of the best books that I have read in years, and I have been telling all of my friends and acquaintances about it. Ms. Winter has an amazing gift for pulling the reader into the story. The characters are so real that sometimes I think I am one of them. The situations are unique yet universal in that they reveal inner truths about human nature. The settings are described naturally within the stories with just the right amount of detail.Ms. Winter's style is somewhat similar to that of Raymond Carver, yet there is a strong undertone of optimism that is greatly lacking from Mr. Carver's work. I am always enchanted by her main characters, and I feel great empathy for them as I read their stories.I am in AWE of this book.

Fabulous! Buy This Book!

I loved this book. I was enthralled from the first story. By the third I realized that Ellen Winter was brillant. Each story is written from a unique voice -- male, female, old, young etc. It was fascinating.Winter is a really good writer! The language is clear and smooth. She evokes believable characters and authentic scenery -- especially the heat and dryness of the Southwest. Each story is deep and enveloping. I emerged after each one, satisfied and enchanted, yet somewhat restless too. I don't live a life like her characters, yet I feel that I could be if I had made different choices in my life.These stories feel real. I will recommend this book again and again.