Jayne Anne Phillips
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a war veteran who...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a half-brother and sister, Lark and Termite, leaving in West Virginia during the Korean War. Both children were given to their Aunt Nonie by their mother. Termite's father dies in the Korean War and Lark doesn't know who her father is.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
A spectacularly riveting novel based on a real life crime by a con man who preyed on widows: a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year-think In Cold Blood meets The Lovely Bones-but sexy.
In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a lonely mother of three, is desperate for money after the sudden death of her husband. She begins to receive seductive letters from a chivalrous, elegant man named Harry Powers,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
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 handful of stories before he took his own life in 1979, just shy of his twenty-seventh birthday. Those stories and a small number of others found among his papers after his death comprise the remarkable posthumous collection The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"What is it about the relationship between fathers and daughters that provokes so much exquisite tenderness, satisfying communion, longing for more, idealization from both ends, followed often if not inevitably by disappointment, hurt, and the need to understand and forgive, or to finger the guilt of not understanding and loving enough?" writes Phillip Lopate, in his introduction to this collection of 24 personal essays by women writers writing about...
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