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Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of five works of fiction. The recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is currently Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. She divides her time between Boston, New York, and Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
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"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 find Lark and Termite""to 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's Lark and Termite is 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
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- PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0224059769
- ISBN 13 9780224059763
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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