Jayne Anne Phillips

• Nov-1979
• / General Fiction
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From one of our most accomplished writers: the reputation-making debut short story collection that paved the way for a new generation of writers. • “Brilliant … Phillips is a virtuoso.” -- The Chicago TribuneJayne Anne Phillips's reputa...

• Jun-1984
• / General Fiction
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Called “an enduring literary achievement . . . astonishing” by The New York Times, this highly acclaimed debut novel from the bestselling author of Black Tickets introduces the Hampsons, an ordinary, small-town American family profoundly affected...

• May-1987
• / General Fiction
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From one of our most accomplished writers: a short story collection that presents a tour de force of voices, offering elegantly rendered views into the lives of characters torn between the liberation of detachment and the desire to connect."A brillia...

• Sep-1994
• / Action Adventure
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In a West Virginia girls camp in July 1963, a group of children experience an unexpected rite of passage. Shelter is an astonishing portrayal of an American loss of innocence as witnessed by a drifter named Parson, two young sisters, Lenny and A...

• Apr-2000
• / General Fiction
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A major new novel that depicts the challenges of family life with contemporary force and timeless grace, from the acclaimed author of Machine Dreams and Shelter.

Formerly free-spirited, unattached Kate enters into roles of enormous respon...

• Jan-2009
• / Literary
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A rich, wonderfully alive novel from one of our most admired and best-loved writers, her first book in nine years. Lark and Termite is set during the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea. It is a story of the power of loss and love, the echoing ramificat...

• Oct-2013
• / Historical
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From one of America’s most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers, a chilling, spectacularly riveting novel based on a real life multiple murder by a con man who preyed on widows -- a story that has haunted Jayne Anne Phillips for more than fou...

• May-2016
• / General Fiction
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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   Twenty-three years old, alone, broke, and without options, a young woman returns to her mother’s home. There, while the television drones and her mother laments the aging of Walter Cronkite,...

• Sep-2023
• / Literary
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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • 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&m...