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Lark and Termite : A Novel by Jayne Anne Phillips (2010, Trade Paperback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
- 9780375701931
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375701931
ISBN-13
9780375701931
eBay Product ID (ePID)
73362258
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lark and Termite : a Novel
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
War & Military, Sagas, Family Life, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
10 oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Once you open its hypnotic pages you will find yourself pulled like metal to a magnet . . . [Termite's] sequences are virtuoso segments in which Phillips plays English the way Casals played Bach." Alan Cheuse,Dallas Morning News "A tour-de force of history, imagination and invention. It is resonant and profound, a masterpiece worth waiting for." Elissa Schappell,More "Mysterious, affecting . . . reveals [a family's] tangled secrets in such a profound and intimate way that these ordinary, wounded people become both tragic and magnificent." Ron Charles, front page,Washington Post Book World "Jayne Anne Phillips writes with all five senses, paying attentionas few writers doto sight, sound, taste, touch and smell in nearly every sentence of her tightly constructed, extraordinary new novel . . . a powerful reading experience, at once poetic and electrifying." Heller McAlpin,Newsday "Phillips taps into powerful magic with a tale that surprises to its last page . . . A Jewel of a book." Colette Bancroft,St. Petersburg Times "Luminous and haunting and singular . . . [Lark and Termite]feels as if it has been taken straight from the griddle and is still too hot to touch. And because it deals with issues over which people have been arguing for centuriesfamilies and warthe novel's rare immediacy is really quite spectacular."Julia Keller,Chicago Tribune "Reading this novel is like listening to music in which some of the notes are outside the normal realm of human hearing, but felt deep in the body." Margaret Quanne,The Columbus Dispatch "A true work of art . . . that seems destined to last, on bookshelves and in readers' hearts. [P]lumbs the depths of consciousness with potent and poetic language . . . You finish wanting to turn back to the first pages and start over, making sure not to miss a single note." Malena Watrous,The San Francisco Chronicle "An original examination of the strange durability of family ties." Brooke Allen,Wall Street Journal "Jayne Anne Phillips renders what is realistically impossible with such authority that the reader never questions its truth. This is the alchemy of great fiction: the fantastic dream that's created inLark and Termiteis one the reader enters without ever looking back." Kathryn Harrison,The New York Times Book Review "Haunting . . . A rigorous and demanding work of complex literary architecture . . . Make no mistake: Phillips's January novel has set a high literary bar that will challenge subsequent novels in 2009." John Marshall,Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Lark and Termiteoffers substantial rewards for readers who value passages of gorgeous, intelligent writing with intricate literary architecture." Perrin Ireland,Boston Globe "Wonderful . . . riveting and moving . . .In this novel about sibling love set in the 1950's, Lark's pragmatism, clear-eyed love and determination to hold on to her brother are strikingly fresh and heroic." Wingate Packard,The Seattle Times "Rich symbols and parallels are carried along by the sounds, images and rhythms of Phillips's wordcraft. This is Phillips writing at her best." Joseph Peschel,St Louis Post-Dispatch "Jayne Anne Phillips&, "Powerful and emotionally piercing. . . . A novel that conjures with poetic ferocity the… unconscious, almost magical bonds shared by people who are connected by blood or love or memory." -Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times "Anyone, male or female, who seriously cares about reading novels will findLark and Termiteto be intricately and beautifully composed." -The New York Review of Books "Phillips . . . [knows] how to bypass the reader's brain and inject her words directly into the bloodstream." -Los Angeles Times "There are books you recommend to everybody, and then there are books you share cautiously, even protectively. Jayne Anne Phillips'sLark and Termiteis that second kind, a mysterious, affecting novel you'll want to talk about only with others who have fallen under its spell." -The Washington Post Book World "This novel is cut like a diamond, with such sharp authenticity and bursts of light." -Alice Munro "Lark and Termiteis a category of story unto itself: mythical without being gooey; wry and terribly moving; as ornately contrived as Dickens, as poetic as Morrison, yet unselfconscious in tone and peopled with vivid, salt-of-the-earth characters who mostly accept the limits on life's possibilities with a shrug and another cup of coffee." -Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air" "A stylistic tour de force. . . . Pure, rapt poetry." -The Wall Street Journal "Fever-dreamy." -Entertainment Weekly "A jewel of a book." -St. Petersburg Times "Phillips returns to working-class lives in what may be her most tender, most compassionate book to date. . . . Extraordinary." -The Plain Dealer "Jayne Anne Phillips renders what is realistically impossible with such authority that the reader never questions its truth. . . . The fantastic dream that's created inLark and Termiteis one the reader enters without ever looking back." -The New York Times Book Review "Lark and Termiteis extraordinary and it is luminous. . . . It is the best novel I've read this year." -Junot D�az "Electrifying. . . . Gorgeous, stunning." -Newsday "A narrative that is consistently inventive, evocative and uncompromising. . . . Haunting is a word much overused butLark And Termiteis exactly that: a novel whose elegant, lingering images are hard to shake from memory." -The Independent (London) "Remarkable . . . swings from spare to sumptuous. . . . An intricate, affecting portrait of a darker corner of the American '50s."-USA Today "Extraordinary and brilliant. . . . With its echoes of William Faulkner and its almost mystical exploration of love in all its forms, but particularly between siblings, the novel is a powerful and tender portrayal of a family that in the end proves literally unsinkable." -The Sunday Times(London) "Evocative. . . .Lark and Termiteoffers substantial rewards for readers who value passages of gorgeous, intelligent writing." -The Boston Globe "What a beautiful, beautiful novel this isso rich and intricate in its drama, so elegantly written, so tender, so convincing, so penetrating, so incredibly moving." -Tim O'Brien "A richly textured novel wit
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
National Bestseller New York Times Notable Book Chicago Tribune , Christian Science Monitor , The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year Lark and Termite is a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen year old Lark and her brother, Termite, living in West Virginia in the 1950s. Their mother, Lola, is absent, while their aunt, Nonie, raises them as her own, and Termite's father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, is caught up in the early days of the Korean War. Award-winning author Jayne Anne Phillips intertwines family secrets, dreams, and ghosts in a story about the love that unites us all., NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch , a "powerful and emotionally piercing" novel ( The New York Times ) set during the 1950 in West Virginia and Korea, that intertwines family secrets, war, dreams, and ghosts in a story about the love that unites us all. Lark and Termite is a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen year old Lark and her brother, Termite, living in West Virginia in the 1950s. Their mother, Lola, is absent, while their aunt, Nonie, raises them as her own, and Termite's father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, is caught up in the early days of the Korean War. Told with deep feeling, the novel invites us deep into the hearts and thoughts of Lark, on the verge of adulthood, and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk, who is filled with radiance. We are also with Corporal Leavitt, trapped by friendly fire alongside the Korean children he tries to rescue. We see Lark's dreams for Termite and her own future, and how, with the aid of a childhood love and a spectral social worker, she makes them happen. We learn of Lola's love for her soldier husband and her children, and unravel the mystery of her relationship with Nonie. We discover the lasting connections between past and future on the night the town experiences an overwhelming flood, and we follow Lark and Termite as their lives are changed forever., NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch , a "powerful and emotionally piercing" novel ( The New York Times ) set during the 1950 in West Virginia and Korea, that intertwines family secrets, war, dreams, and ghosts in a story about the love that unites us all. Lark and Termite is a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen year old Lark and her brother, Termite, living in West Virginia in the 1950s. Their mother, Lola, is absent, while their aunt, Nonie, raises them as her own, and Termite's father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, is caught up in the early days of the Korean War. Told with deep feeling, the novel invites us deep into the hearts and thoughts of Lark, on the verge of adulthood, and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk, who is filled with radiance. We are also with Corporal Leavitt, trapped by friendly fire alongside the Korean children he tries to rescue. We see Lark's dreams for Termite and her own future, and how, with the aid of a childhood love and a spectral social worker, she makes them happen. We learn of Lola's love for her soldier husband and her children, and unravel the mystery of her relationship with Nonie. We discover the lasting connections between past and future on the night the town experiences an overwhelming flood, and we follow Lark and Termite as their lives are changed forever.
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