Fast Lanes
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Jayne Anne Phillips has always been a master of portraiture, both in her widely acclaimed novels and in her short fiction. The stories in Fast Lanes demonstrated the breadth of her talent in 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. Three stories are collected in this edition for the first time: in "Alma," and adolescent daughter is...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0525245154
ISBN13:9780525245155
Release Date:April 1987
Publisher:Dutton Books
Length:148 Pages
Weight:0.71 lbs.
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Height of her powers
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
This, for me, still stands as Jayne Anne Phillips finest and most accomplished achievement. Ravishing use of language which never loses sight of the essential humanity of her characters. Not to play favorites, but the stories here that speak most eloquently to me are the two chapters that were excised from her novel MACHINE DREAMS and reworked -- BLUE MOON and BESS. Exquisite.
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