Black tickets

by Jayne Anne Phillips

Paper Book, 1979

Status

Available

Publication

New York : Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence, c1979.

Description

Jayne Anne Phillips's 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 Tickets now 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.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member Lady_Lazarus
Beautifully written and at least the Finnish translation by Marja Alopaeus made me believe in the power of language again. Shorter stories could almost be considered as prosaic poetry. Unfortunately the mesmerizing language didn't carry through all the stories... The moments and the feelings got
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through, but it was the lack of realisation that left me with nothing in the end and I will forget this book as so many others.
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LibraryThing member viviennestrauss
Not an easy book to rate- some stories were amazing while others left me feeling completely indifferent.

Language

Original publication date

1979

Physical description

xii, 265 p.; 21 cm

ISBN

0440507774 / 9780440507772

Local notes

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