MotherKind: A Novel - Brossura

Phillips, Jayne Anne

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ISBN 10: 0375701923 ISBN 13: 9780375701924

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2001

Riassunto

In this profound fictional meditation on marriage, loss, and rebirth, a daughter cares for her terminally ill mother while preparing to give birth to her own first child. By the author of Machine Dreams. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

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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

L'autore:

Jayne Anne Phillips was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She is the author of three novels, MotherKind (2000), 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 been translated into twelve languages, and has appeared in Granta, Harper’s, DoubleTake, and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. She is currently Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. Her new novel, Lark and Termite, is forthcoming from Knopf.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375701923
• ISBN 13: 9780375701924
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 304