LARK AND TERMITE (Signed First Edition)

Jayne Anne Phillips

ISBN 10: 0375401954 ISBN 13: 9780375401954

Verlag: Knopf, New York, 2009

Sprache: Englisch

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New York: Knopf (2009). First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New/New. A pristine unread copy, very fine in all respects. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. All books shipped in sturdy boxes. Smoke-free, defect-free, etc. Purchased new and never opened. You cannot find a better copy. Signed and dated by author on title page. Book went immediately into multiple printings. This is the first printing. The novel follows a West Virginia family during the Korean War and is told through shifting voices and lyrical, compressed prose. Phillips s fourth novel, it was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Phillips later won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "Night Watch.".

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Titel: LARK AND TERMITE (Signed First Edition)
Verlag: Knopf, New York
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0375401954
ISBN-13: 9780375401954
Einband: Hardcover
Auflage: 1st Edition
Zustand: New
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New
Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

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A rich, wonderfully alive novel from one of our most admired and best-loved writers, her first book in nine years. Lark and Termite is set during the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea. It is a story of 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.

At its center, two children: Lark, on the verge of adulthood, and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk but filled with radiance. Around them, their mother, Lola, a haunting but absent presence; their aunt Nonie, a matronly, vibrant woman in her fifties, who raises them; and Termite�s father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, who finds himself caught up in the chaotic early months of the Korean War.

Told with deep feeling, the novel invites us to enter into the hearts and thoughts of the leading characters, even into Termite�s intricate, shuttered consciousness. We are with Leavitt, trapped by friendly fire alongside the Korean children he tries to rescue. We see Lark�s dreams for Termite and her own future, and how, with the aid of a childhood love and a spectral social worker, she makes them happen. We learn of Lola�s love for her soldier husband and her children, and unravel the mystery of her relationship with Nonie. We discover the lasting connections between past and future on the night the town experiences an overwhelming flood, and we follow Lark and Termite as their lives are changed forever.

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Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of three previous novels and two collections of widely anthologized stories. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Bunting Fellowship, a Howard Foundation Fellowship. and an Academy Award in Literature (1997) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Phillips is currently professor of English and director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.

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