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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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, <b>Black Tickets</b><i> </i>now stands as a classic. <p/>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Brilliant... Phillips is a virtuoso."<br>--<i>Chicago Tribune Book World <p/></i>"Extraordinary... Phillips shines brightly... This is a sweetheart of a book."<br>--John Irving, <i>The New York Times Book Review <p/></i>"[Phillips] knows how to write about the way dreams live with us... Genius is the word for her."<br>--<i>The Boston Globe</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jayne Anne Phillips was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She is the author of three novels, <i> MotherKind</i> (2000), <i> Shelter</i> (1994) and<i> Machine Dreams</i> (1984<i>)</i>, and two collections of widely anthologized stories, <i> Fast Lanes (1987)</i> and<i> Black Tickets (1979)</i>. 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<i> Granta, Harper's, DoubleTake, </i> and<i> The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction</i>. She is currently Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. Her new novel, <b><i> Lark and Termite</i></b>, is forthcoming from Knopf.

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