Fast Lanes - Softcover

Phillips, Jayne Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0931428173 ISBN 13: 9780931428173

Publisher: Vehicle Editions, 1984

Synopsis

Three new stories are collected in this edition for the first time. In Alma an adolescent daughter is made the confidante of her lonely mother; Counting traces the history of a doomed love affair; and Callie evokes memories of the haunting death of a child in 1920s West Virginia.

About this title

Review:

"Ms. Phillips's ear is almost unerring.... As ever, whe writes beautifully, capturing elusive moods with startling images and scenes." -Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"

"Jayne Anne Phillips is the best short story writer since Eudora Welty." -Nadine Gordimer

"A brilliant writer, utterly original and with an astonishing range." --Ian McEwan

About the Author:

Jayne Anne Phillips was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She is the author of three novels, " 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, Harper's, 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. Her new novel, " Lark and Termite," is forthcoming from Knopf.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vehicle Editions
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0931428173
• ISBN 13: 9780931428173
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56