Jayne Anne Phillips

Leavitt integra uno de los primeros contingentes de soldados estadounidenses enviados al frente coreano, mientras que su mujer Lola sufre su ausencia y confía la crianza de sus hijos a su hermana Nonie, con quien la une un oscuro secreto. Los niños son Termita, cuyas limitaciones físicas supera con una imaginación desbordante y un oído prodigioso, y Alondra, una adolescente sensible que alberga grandes sueños para ambos. Una musicalidad invisible y preciosos hilos poéticos anudan a estos cuatro seres enfrentados a un momento histórico y personal lleno de desafíos.

A Story of Love, Murder and ObsessionChicago, 1931. Asta Eicher, a lonely widow with three children, is thrilled when Harry Powers asks her to marry him, and agrees to travel with him to West Virginia. She and her children are never seen alive again.Emily Thornhill, one of the few women in the Chicago press, is sent to cover their disappearance. Obsessed with trying to find out what happened to the family, her investigations lead deeper into the case, uncovering the terrifying truth behind the tragedy.Extraordinary Observer Brilliant Sunday Times

Traduit de langlais (États-Unis) par Marc Amfreville. En 1931, à Park Ridge (Illinois), un certain Cornelius O. Pierson assassina une jeune veuve, Asta Eicher, et ses trois enfants. En enquêtant sur

Traduit de langlais (États-Unis) par Marc Amfreville. En 1931, à Park Ridge (Illinois), un certain Cornelius O. Pierson assassina une jeune veuve, Asta Eicher, et ses trois enfants. En enquêtant sur

Set in the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, this book presents the story of power of loss and love, the echoing ramifications of war, family secrets, dreams and ghosts, and the unseen, almost magica

Campamento de verano (Shelter, 1994) es un verdadero acontecimiento literario: la esperada segunda novela de Jayne Anne Phillips, a los diez años de la aparición de la primera.El relato se centra en unas muchachas que, en julio de 1963, viven experiencias singulares de aprendizaje de la vida en el marco aparentemente bucolico de una colonia veraniega: el campamento Shelter para exploradoras, en pleno corazon de los Apalaches. El paraje, sin embargo, se revela calidamente sensual y secretamente habitado por la violencia y el homicidio, a la vez que alucinante y casi onirico en su sobrecogedora e inquietante belleza.La escritura de Jayne Anne Phillips es poesia, es pastoral, es mas aun un paisaje del espiritu en el que las rocas y las piedras y los arboles y las personas son cosas igualmente vivas, igualmente enraizadas y cargadas con el peso del lugar. Campamento de verano es un libro turbador (The Times Literary Supplement).Al terminar la novela, el lector ha llegado a preocuparse por todos los personajes, y queda impresionado y abrumado por la violenta tragedia que se abate sobre sus vidas (The New York Times).Esta novela provocativa y pavorosamente hermosa es tan turbadora como su escenario. Campamento de verano parece la baza de la autora para la inmortalidad (Harpers Bazaar).Una rica y vivida novela de complejidad moral y psicologica destinada a figurar al lado de las obras de Faulkner y demas maestros de la literatura sureña (Vanity Fair).Una escritora magistral (Publishers Weekly).

At the centre of this unforgettable novel are two chidlren: Lark and her brother, Termite, who is unable to walk or talk but is deeply loved by his family. The two are raised by their aunt Nonie in place of Lola, their mother, and Termites father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, who is caught up in the chaos of the Korean War.As the story shifts through time from West Virginia to Korea the mystery of Lola and Nonies relationship slowly unravels, as does the story of Larks hopes for herself and Termite, and her own desire for the personal history she has been denied.The result is a rich and rewarding novel about the power of loss and love, the echoing ramifications of war, family secrets, dreams and ghosts, and the unseen, almost magical bonds that unite and sustain us.

Kate - whose care for her terminally ill mother coincides with the birth of her first child in the early months of a young marriage - must, in a single year, come to terms with radiant beginnings and profound loss.Kates everyday world is enveloped by the gradual vanishing of her mother. And as the woman who has been her best friend and mentor disappears, we see Kate deal with timeless, perhaps unanswerable, questions of love and death.

En Línea materna, una novela brillante e inquietante, Jayne-Anne Phillips relata la historia de Kate, quien deberá ocuparse al mismo tiempo de la enfermedad terminal de su madre y del cuidado del primer hijo nacido de su aun reciente matrimonio. En el transcurso de un año, Kate se enfrenta pues a grandes esperanzas y profundas perdidas, que la llevaran a revisar su infancia y adolescencia para intentar ver el futuro con ilusion.

From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Night Watch, 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 (Stephen King).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, who promises to cherish and protect her, ultimately to marry her and to care for her and her children. Weeks later, Asta and her three children are dead.Emily Thornhill, one of the few women journalists in the Chicago press, wants to understand what happened to this beautiful family, particularly to the youngest child, Annabel, an enchanting girl with a precocious imagination and sense of magic. Determined, Emily travels to West Virginia to cover the murder trial and to investigate the story herself, accompanied by a charming and unconventional photographer equally drawn to the case. These heroic characters, driven by secrets of their own, will stop at nothing to ensure Powers is convicted.A tragedy, a love story, and a tour de force of obsession, Jayne Anne Phillipss Quiet Dell hauntingly imagines the victims hopes, dreams, and terror (O, The Oprah Magazine). It is a mesmerizing and deeply moving novel from one of Americas most celebrated writers.

Los relatos que componen este volumen se mueven en el límite con la poesía, en toda clase de escenarios y climas. Jay McInerney dijo sobre ellos: «Un nuevo Kerouac para una nueva generación».

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch: the reputation-making debut short story collection that paved the way for a new generation of writers. Brilliant Phillips is a virtuoso. The Chicago TribuneJayne Anne Phillipss reputation-making debut collection paved the way for a new generation of writers. Raved about by reviewers and embraced by the likes of Raymond Carver, Frank Conroy, Annie Dillard, and Nadine Gordimer, Black Ticketsnow stands as a classic. With an uncanny ability to depict the lives of men and women who rarely register in our literature, Phillips writes stories that lay bare their suffering and joy. Here are the abused and the abandoned, the violent and the passive, the impoverished and the disenfranchised who populate the small towns and rural byways of the country. A patron of the arts reserves his fondest feeling for the one man who wants it least. A stripper, the daughter of a witch, escapes from poverty into another kind of violence. A young girl during the Depression is caught between the love of her crazy father and the no less powerful love of her sorrowful mother. These are great American stories that have earned a privileged place in our literature.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch: a short story collection that presents a tour de force of voices, offering elegantly rendered views into the lives of characters torn between the liberation of detachment and the desire to connect."A brilliant writer, utterly original and with an astonishing range." Ian McEwan, New York Times bestselling author of Atonement and LessonsThree stories are collected in this edition for the first time: in "Alma," and adolescent daughter is made the confidante of her lonely mother; "Counting" traces the history of a doomed love affair; and "Callie" evokes memories of the haunting death of a child in 1920s West Virginia. Along with the original seven stories from Fast Laneseach told in extraordinary first person narratives that have been hailed by critics as virtuoso performancesthese incandescent portraits offer windows into the lives of an entire generation of Americans, demonstrating again and again why Jayne Anne Phillips remains one of our most powerful writers.

1874, au lendemain de la guerre de Sécession. Sur les routes de Virginie-Occidentale se croisent civils et soldats, renégats et vagabonds, affranchis et fugitifs. ConaLee, 12 ans, l’adulte de sa fami

Called an enduring literary achievement . . . astonishing by The New York Times, this highly acclaimed debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch introduces the Hampsons, an ordinary, small-town American family profoundly affected by the extraordinary events of historyfrom the Depression to the Vietnam War. One of The Atlantics Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsHere is a stunning chronicle that is revealed in the thoughts, dreams, and memories of each member of the Hampson family. Mitch struggles to earn a living as Jeans becomes the main breadwinner, working to complete college and raise the family. While the couple fight to keep their marriage intact, their daughter Danner and son Billy forge a sibling bond of uncommon strength. When Billy goes off to Vietnam, Danner becomes the sole bond linking her family, whose dissolution mirrors the fractured state of America in the 1960s. Deeply felt and vividly imagined, this lyrical novel is "among the wisest of a generation to grapple with a war that maimed us all" (The Village Voice), by a master of contemporary fiction.

A new offering from award-winning author Jayne Anne Phillips, set during the American Civil War and seen through the eyes of ConaLee, a teenage girl in the divided state of Virginia, whose father is

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of our most accomplished novelists, a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil Warand a brilliant portrait of family endurance against all odds"A tour de force." Tayari Jones, author of An American MarriageIn 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 hasnt spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospitals entrance by a war veteran who has forced himself into their world. 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 story: their flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia; the disappearance of ConaLees 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 mothers maid; Eliza responds slowly to treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facilitythe mysterious man they call the Night Watch; the orphan 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 stunning chronicle of surviving war and its aftermath.