Night Watch: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024 by Jayne Anne Phillip

Description: Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips A brilliant, prize-winning novel, 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER IN FICTIONBreathtaking in both its scope and intensity TAYARI JONESShatteringly particular and audaciously universal ALICE RANDALL A 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 hasnt spoken in more than a year, arrive at the Trans-Allegh eny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospitals 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 ConaLees 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 mothers 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.Night Watch was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024 on 6 May 2024 Author Biography Jayne Anne Phillips was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She is the author of four novels, Lark and Termite (2008), MotherKind (2000), Shelter (1994) and Machine Dreams (1984), and two collections of widely anthologized stories, Fast Lanes (1987) and Black Tickets (1979). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Bunting Fellowship. She has been awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (1980) and an Academy Award in Literature (1997) by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been translated into twelve languages, and has appeared in Granta, Harpers, DoubleTake, and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. She is currently Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. Review Phillipss depiction of a ravaged world in which so many have lost their way or had it stolen from them, both physically and mentally, feels true to the profoundly destabilising nature of her subject...With this excellent novel, Phillips has brought a little more of this foundational American episode into the light * Guardian *Beautiful, mournful... Carefully and engrossingly crafted... The good suffer equally with the bad. Phillipss artistic conscience wont let her flinch from this truth, but her generous heart wont let it be the last word. She leaves readers with a rueful yet doggedly hopeful maxim that could easily serve as an epigraph for Night Watch as a whole: Endurance was strength * Washington Post *Intricately plotted... As Phillips shifts between the two periods and among her various characters perspectives [...] she examines ideas about identity, rebirth, and lingering trauma * New Yorker, Books of the Year *Jayne Anne Phillips is a brilliant artist working at the height of her powers. Word by word, and line by line, there is no one better. This novel lives where a startling imagination meets scrupulous research: Night Watch is a tour de force - breathtaking in both its scope and intensity -- Tayari Jones, author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGEThere is a luminous beauty in Phillipss prose. Whether it is the dark interiors of war - which have become her forte - or the equally complex and fraught lives of so-called ordinary people, Phillips brings these theaters of peace and loss, death and transcendence together with a remarkable alchemy -- Ken Burns, filmmakerA superb meditation on broken families in post-Civil War West Virginia . . . The bruised and turbulent postbellum era comes alive in Phillipss page-turning affair * Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW *Expect coincidences and convolutions . . . Phillips pulls them off with gorgeous prose, attention to detail, and masterful characters. Haunting storytelling and a refreshing look at history * Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW *A profound meditation on identity, empathy, sanity, daughter-love, nature, and the Civil War, Night Watch will leave you shook and sustained. This novel delivers fictional reckoning that makes way for the potential of real-world reconciliation by delivering complex and necessary testimony and confession. Weaving photographs and fragments of non-fiction prose into an intimate family story, Night Watch is at once shatteringly particular and audaciously universal. Jayne Anne Phillips arrives at the crowning achievement of an extraordinary career -- Alice Randall, author of BLACK BOTTOM SAINTSJayne Anne Phillips is a wonderfully gifted storyteller, and few contemporary writers can match the lyricism of her prose, but in this marvelous new novel, largely set in a factual nineteenth-century asylum, she achieves even more: history and imagination merge, and she gives the past a living pulse -- Ron Rash, author of THE CARETAKERA lovely piece of work . . . Night Watch is another of Jayne Anne Phillipss intimate revelatory creations -- Dorothy Allison, author of BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINAA searing portrait of the cruelties of race, the insanity of war, and the tragedy of its aftermath -- Drew Gilpin Faust, author of THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING: DEATH AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WARIts hard to know what to praise first - Jayne Anne Phillips signature beautiful sentences, the compelling scenes of battle and their ravaged aftermath, the fascinating portrayal of Dr Thomas Story Kirkbrides moral treatment method for the mentally ill, or the vivid depiction of the people and land of West Virginia in the 1860s and 70s. Night Watch takes a highly deserved place among important novels about war and its legacy -- Alice Elliot Dark, author of FELLOWSHIP POINTA story of trauma and restoration in the aftermath of the Civil War... Goodness is a real thing in this novel - a verifiable force - and the question posed is whether we still have the sensitivity to discern it * Wall Street Journal *Vivid . . . Phillips excels in crafting original takes on human circumstances, like mother-daughter relationships and womens vulnerabilities and resilience. Her setting here is equally striking: the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in rural West Virginia . . . The historical milieu comes alive in all its facets as Phillips evokes the enduring bonds of both blood and chosen families * Booklist *Tracing an arc from catastrophic damage and loss to recovery through the Civil War and its aftermath, Phillips marries a timeless emotional quality and utterly contemporary sensibility to create a satisfying work in her first novel in a decade . . . Night Watch is escapist in the best sense of the word, allowing readers to immerse themselves in the experience of a distant era and identify deeply with the struggles of the people who lived through it * BookPage * Details ISBN0349727791 Author Jayne Anne Phillips Language English Year 2024 ISBN-10 0349727791 ISBN-13 9780349727790 Format Hardcover Publisher Little, Brown Book Group Imprint Fleet Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 304 Publication Date 2024-01-25 UK Release Date 2024-01-25 Audience General DEWEY 813.6 Subtitle Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024 AU Release Date 2024-05-27 NZ Release Date 2024-05-27 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:157925262;

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