MotherKind: A Novel
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 responsibility: as she takes the first steps into a new marriage complete with her own beloved infant and two lively young stepsons, she becomes caregiver to her ailing mother, the strong woman who has been her guiding star and counterpart across a divide of experience and time. Kate must, in a single year, confront profound loss alongside radiant beginnings.
Jayne Anne Phillips transforms quotidian details into a shimmering whole, giving us Kate and her family in all the complexity their world offers. Phillips? renowned skill at portraiture combines with her equally nuanced sense of narrative in this heartstrong and delicately layered novel. more
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Recent Reviews
- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-27-2006
- And the point is.........
This book had great potential, but no point. There were so many loose ends. I guess that's like life, but it doesn't make for good reading. Ugh. Painful.
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Nov-08-2002
- Not recommended
Some fine things, sometimes very poetical but on the whole rather boring. Not much happen, no real development of character, no interesting insights. Some parts was extraordinarily boring especially the description of the marriage, it...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-25-2002
- A MEDITATION ON DEATH AND BIRTH AND LIVING
I didn't find this novel to be the easiest thing to read that I've picked up in the last few months -- but, that being said, I felt that the beauty of the language compelled me to finish it, once I had begun.Jayne Anne Phillips has taken...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jun-13-2002
- Wonderful
America's greatest author triumphs again with this absolutely stunning new work. Returning to themes familiar to her many loyal readers, Phillips incontrovertibly demonstrates that no other author could find so many interesting ways to...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-25-2002
- A MEDITATION ON DEATH AND BIRTH AND LIVING
I didn't find this novel to be the easiest thing to read that I've picked up in the last few months -- but, that being said, I felt that the beauty of the language compelled me to finish it, once I had begun.Jayne Anne Phillips has taken...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jan-31-2002
- Didn't finish it
This is one of those books that I wanted to like more than I did. The characters are interesting and the sense of time and place are moving, but ultimately it didn't move me. I suggest people take it out of the library or buy a used copy...
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-27-2006
- And the point is.........
This book had great potential, but no point. There were so many loose ends. I guess that's like life, but it doesn't make for good reading. Ugh. Painful.
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