Motherkind: A Novel - Rilegato

Phillips, Jayne Anne

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ISBN 10: 0375401946 ISBN 13: 9780375401947

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000

Riassunto

Exploring the lives of characters torn between the liberation of detachment and the desire to connect, this story collection includes such tales as "Alma," in which an adolescent daughter is made the confidante of her lonely mother. Original.

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Recensione:

?[MotherKind] is further proof of an extraordinary ability to reflect the texture of real life?. Phillips sets forth a mother-daughter relationship that is tender without ever bordering on precious.??The Washington Post Book World
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of two novels, Shelter (1994) and Machine Dreams (1984), and two collections of widely anthologized stories, Fast Lanes (1987) and Black Tickets (1979). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a Bunting Fellowship. She has been awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (1980) and an Academy Award in Literature (1997) by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has appeared most recently in Granta, DoubleTake and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. She is currently Writer in Residence at Brandeis University.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375401946
• ISBN 13: 9780375401947
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 295