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    On sale May 21, 2016 | 24 Pages | 9781101973660
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    A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection
     
    Twenty-three years old, alone, broke, and without options, a young woman returns to her mother’s home. There, while the television drones and her mother laments the aging of Walter Cronkite, Hubert Humphrey, and her own body, the young woman has endless hours to relive her life with her high school boyfriend. When a former lover and Vietnam medic Daniel comes to visit her, it will be the first time a man has entered the home in a very long time.  
     
    Jayne Anne Phillips captures the quiet, searing awkwardness between a mother and daughter, scarred by their past relationships, memories of lost intimacy, and conversations they could never share. A classic of the genre, “Home” and the other stories comprising Black Tickets were pronounced “unlike any in our literature...a crooked beauty” by Raymond Carver.
     
    An ebook short.
    © Elena Seibert
    JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS is the author of Black Tickets, Machine Dreams, Fast Lanes, Shelter, MotherKind, Lark and Termite, Quiet Dell, and Night Watch, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. Her work has been a finalist once for the National Book Award and twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, Howard, Bunting, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Boston and New York. View titles by Jayne Anne Phillips
    Praise for Jayne Anne Phillips and Black Tickets:

    “The best short story writer since Eudora Welty.”—Nadine Gordimer
     
    "Brilliant....Phillips is a virtuoso."—Chicago Tribune Book World

    "Extraordinary....Phillips shines brightly....This is a sweetheart of a book."—John Irving, The New York Times Book Review

    "[Phillips] knows how to write about the way dreams live with us....Genius is the word for her."—The Boston Globe

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    A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection
     
    Twenty-three years old, alone, broke, and without options, a young woman returns to her mother’s home. There, while the television drones and her mother laments the aging of Walter Cronkite, Hubert Humphrey, and her own body, the young woman has endless hours to relive her life with her high school boyfriend. When a former lover and Vietnam medic Daniel comes to visit her, it will be the first time a man has entered the home in a very long time.  
     
    Jayne Anne Phillips captures the quiet, searing awkwardness between a mother and daughter, scarred by their past relationships, memories of lost intimacy, and conversations they could never share. A classic of the genre, “Home” and the other stories comprising Black Tickets were pronounced “unlike any in our literature...a crooked beauty” by Raymond Carver.
     
    An ebook short.

    Author

    © Elena Seibert
    JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS is the author of Black Tickets, Machine Dreams, Fast Lanes, Shelter, MotherKind, Lark and Termite, Quiet Dell, and Night Watch, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. Her work has been a finalist once for the National Book Award and twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, Howard, Bunting, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Boston and New York. View titles by Jayne Anne Phillips

    Praise

    Praise for Jayne Anne Phillips and Black Tickets:

    “The best short story writer since Eudora Welty.”—Nadine Gordimer
     
    "Brilliant....Phillips is a virtuoso."—Chicago Tribune Book World

    "Extraordinary....Phillips shines brightly....This is a sweetheart of a book."—John Irving, The New York Times Book Review

    "[Phillips] knows how to write about the way dreams live with us....Genius is the word for her."—The Boston Globe

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