- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (Sep 11 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0375727353
- ISBN-13: 978-0375727351
- Product Dimensions: 13 x 1.7 x 20.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 204 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #617,494 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"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
--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
Book 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.
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.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
didn't do it for me,
By lady detective "sakura kitty" (east coat) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Black Tickets: Stories (Paperback)
i was excited to read this book. the enthusiatic reviews by so many upstanding authors made me feel i was about to embark on a journey into something forceful & important. instead, i found myself barely submerged in a lot of jibberish and unfocused monologues.there were 1 or 2 compelling stories in the book, but for the most part- i could have cared less. there wasn't anything about most of the characters that made me want to enter their worlds- i kept reading, hoping to find whatever it was the critics were raving about. needless to say, i never found it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Daring work,
By A Customer
This review is from: Black Tickets (Paperback)
This is potent, unblinking, and very courageous stuff. Very beautiful too.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent and forceful,
By A Customer
This review is from: Black Tickets (Paperback)
The stories are of two types here -- short, one page sketches that verge on being prose poems, and longer, fuller stories which still contain an elusive quality. Although critics, to a man, preferred the longer stories, I find the shorter ones equally compelling. The writing is first-rate; it is nuanced, poetic, and contains a wealth of psychological insight. I think this is Phillps's greatest accomplishment: her merging of the psychological and the political in stories that are always accessible. Those looking for pretension will find it only with reviewers who trash sophisticated story-tellers while including the (see more about me) tag at the beginning of their own reviews.
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