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.

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).

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».

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.

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

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024'A tour de force - breathtaking in both its scope and intensity' TAYARI JONES'Shatteringly particular and audaciously universal' ALICE RANDALL'Excellent... Phillips has brought a little more of this foundational American episode into the light' GUARDIAN'Beautiful, mournful... Phillips's artistic conscience won't let her flinch from this truth, but her generous heart won't let it be the last word' WASHINGTON POSTIn 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.

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 away fighting for the Union.THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER IN FICTION'Breathtaking in both its scope and intensity' TAYARI JONES'Shatteringly particular and audaciously universal' ALICE RANDALLA 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, trauma haunts 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-Allegh eny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a war vet eran who has forced himself into their lives. There, far from family, a beloved neighbour, and the mountain home they knew, they try to reclaim their lives.The twin horrors of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their history: 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.