Jayne Anne Phillips World Literature

In a West Virginia forest in 1963, a group of children at summer camp enter a foreboding Eden and experience an... more

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  Shelter: A Novel

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  • Posted:Mar-29-2006

  • Angelic book of angels and demons
  • This book is amazing, Philips's words ring like poetry and the variety of her vocabulary and structure when she writes from the different characters' point of view is stunning. Once you get to know...
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  • Posted:Aug-19-2001

  • Good writing; bad story
  • This author clearly has a gift for crafting sentences, and perhaps this book fills the bill completely for some readers. For me, it didn't do the trick. I kept wishing for a character reference...
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  • Posted:Jan-14-1999

  • Hopeless "Shelter"
  • After having tried on three separate occasions to work my way through this book, I am left with one question: how many trees were sacrificed to satisfy the author's need to spew self-titillating...
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From the greatly praised author of Machine Dreams and Shelter, a major new novel.MotherKind is the story of Kate,... more

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  MotherKind

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  • 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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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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Jayne Anne Phillips's reputation-making debut collection paved the way for a new generation of writers. Raved about... more

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  Black Tickets: Stories

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  • Posted:May-20-2009

  • The Ties That Bind and Separate
  • This collection of short stories shows good insight into family relationships and the ties that bind and separate through the years. Some of the stories are very erotic.
    
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  • 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...
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