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Jayne Anne Phillips
From one of our most accomplished novelists, a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in a mental asylum in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War.
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From one of our most accomplished novelists, a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War-and a brilliant portrait of family…
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Obsessed with trying to find out what happened to the family, her investigations lead deeper into the case, uncovering the terrifying truth behind the tragedy. ‘Extraordinary’ Observer ‘Brilliant’ Sunday Times
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A brilliant, prize-winning novel, set during the American Civil War and seen through the eyes of ConaLee, a teenage girl in the divided state of Virginia, whose father is away…
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Jayne Anne Phillips’s reputation-making debut collection paved the way for a new generation of writers. Raved about by reviewers and embraced by the likes of Raymond Carver, Frank Conroy, Annie…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Jayne Anne Phillips’s Souvenir, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
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Formerly free-spirited, unattached Kate enters into roles of enormous responsibility as she takes the first steps into a new marriage. Complete with her own beloved infant and two lively young…
A story of the power of loss and love, the echoing ramifications of war, family secrets, dreams and ghosts, and the unseen, almost magical bonds that unite and sustain us…
Three new stories are collected in this edition for the first time. In Alma an adolescent daughter is made the confidante of her lonely mother; Counting traces the history of…
Jayne Anne Phillips, whose Machine Dreams was chosen one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, returns with a remarkable novel set in a West…
Set in the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, Lark and Termite is a story of the power of loss and love; the echoing ramifications of war, family secrets, dreams…
From one of our most accomplished novelists, a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War--and a brilliant portrait of family…
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION * A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * From one of our most accomplished novelists, a…
A novel of people adapting to time and change, and enduring in spite of them–a work of many shifting narrative voices that enrich its characters, while preserving the aloneness, the…
Breece D'J Pancake
A definitive edition of the haunted and haunting stories of the legendary West Virginia writer, with rare unfinished stories and fragments and revealing letters
Breece D'J Pancake published only a…
