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Night Watch (Hardcover)
Jayne Anne Phillips
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'Breathtaking in both its scope and intensity' TAYARI JONES
'Shatteringly particular and audaciously universal' ALICE RANDALL
'Gorgeous prose, attention to detail and masterful characters.
Haunting storytelling and a refreshing look at history' KIRKUS,
STARRED REVIEW From one of our most accomplished novelists, a
mesmerising story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in a
mental asylum in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. 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 and her mother, Eliza, who hasn't
spoken in more than a year, arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic
Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a
war veteran who has forced himself into their lives. There, far
from family, a beloved neighbor, and the mountain home they knew,
they try to reclaim their lives. The omnipresent vagaries of war
and race rise to the surface as we learn their backstory: their
flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia; the
disappearance of ConaLee's father, who left for the war and never
returned. Meanwhile in the asylum, they begin to find a new path.
ConaLee pretends to be her mother's maid; Eliza responds slowly to
treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility - the
mystery behind the man they call the Night Watch; the child called
Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable
doctor at the head of the institution. Epic, enthralling and
meticulously crafted, Night Watch is a brilliant portrait of family
endurance against all odds, and a stunning chronicle of surviving
war and its aftermath.
With an introduction by Jayne Anne Phillips Shortlisted for the
Orange Prize for Fiction, a novel inspired by the shocking true
story of the Scottsboro boys. Even after all these years, the
injustice still stuns. Innocent boys sentenced to die, not for a
crime they did not commit, but for a crime that never occurred.
Lives splintered as casually as wood being hacked for kindling.
Alabama, 1931. A freight train is stopped in Scottsboro, nine black
youths are brutally arrested and, within minutes, the cry of rape
goes up from two white girls. In the shocking aftermath, one sticks
to her story whilst the other keeps changing her mind, and an
impassioned young journalist must try to save nine boys from the
electric chair, one girl from a lie and herself from the clutches
of the past . . . Stirring racism, sexism and the politics of a
divided America into an explosive brew, Scottsboro gives voice to
the victims - black and white - of this infamous case. Shortlisted
for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2009, Ellen Feldman's classic
charts a fight for justice during the burgeoning civil-rights
movement.
In a West Virginia forest in 1963, a group of children at summer camp enter a foreboding Eden and experience an unexpected rite of passage. Shelter is an astonishing portrayal of an American loss of innocence as witnessed by a mysterious drifter named Parson, two young sisters, Lenny and Alma, and a feral boy called Buddy. Together they come to understand bravery and the importance of compassion. Phillips unearths a dangerous beauty in this primeval terrain and in the hearts of her characters. Lies, secrets, erotic initiations, and the bonds of love between friends, families, and generations are transformed in a leafy wilderness undiminished by societal rules and dilemmas. Cast in Phillips’ stunning prose, with an unpredictable cast of characters and a shadowy, suspenseful narrative, Shelter is a an enduring achievement from one of the finest writers of our time.
Lark and Termite is a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen
year old Lark and her brother, Termite, living in West Virginia in
the 1950s. Their mother, Lola, is absent, while their aunt, Nonie,
raises them as her own, and Termite's father, Corporal Robert
Leavitt, is caught up in the early days of the Korean War.
Award-winning author Jayne Anne Phillips intertwines family
secrets, dreams, and ghosts in a story about the love that unites
us all.
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