Black Tickets: Stories

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 Dillard, and Nadine Gordimer, Black Tickets now stands as a classic.

With an uncanny ability to depict the lives of men and women who rarely register in our literature, Phillips writes stories that lay bare their suffering and joy. Here are the abused and the abandoned, the violent and the passive, the impoverished and the disenfranchised who populate the small towns and rural byways of the country. A patron of the arts reserves his fondest feeling for the one man who wants it least. A stripper, the daughter of a witch, escapes from poverty into another kind of violence. A young girl during the Depression is caught between the love of her crazy father and the no less powerful love of her sorrowful mother. These are great American stories that have earned a privileged place in our literature.
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2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-21-2008; love/hate; I love and hate these stories, but mostly..I hate them. Maybe "hate" is putting too fine a point on it. I know Raymond Carver's wife gushed that "Black Tickets" was the "unmistakable work of early genius" but she and I must have read...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-31-2007; Yes.; These stories encompass a range that is undeniable. Voices shift from young girls to young women mostly and occasionally to young men as in "El Paso." The narrative scope is tight and very intimately entwined. The landscape, family,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-29-2006; "I suck you up like erasers"??; This book hasn't aged well. There is very little plot, very little dialogue, and very few verbs. (Seriously, there are stretches of five or six "sentences" in a row with nary a verb to be seen.) There are some beautiful gems compacted...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-06-2005; Didn't much care for it.; I didn't much cre for this book. It had too much sex stuff and not really any stories to follow. I thought it would be a good book, too since other well-known authors have praised it so well. I do not see what all the fuss was about.; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-31-2007; Yes.; These stories encompass a range that is undeniable. Voices shift from young girls to young women mostly and occasionally to young men as in "El Paso." The narrative scope is tight and very intimately entwined. The landscape, family,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-21-2008; love/hate; I love and hate these stories, but mostly..I hate them. Maybe "hate" is putting too fine a point on it. I know Raymond Carver's wife gushed that "Black Tickets" was the "unmistakable work of early genius" but she and I must have read...; read full review | report as inappropriate