White Rabbit (Signed)
Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Signed, 1996
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used

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Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing. SIGNED by author on title page. Book has light mottling at top edge, else crisp and clean. Unclipped dust jacket has a very thin rim of sunning at the top. Phillips's first novel. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 212 pages; Signed by Author.
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- Title
- White Rabbit (Signed)
- Author
- Phillips, Kate
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, Signed
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0395742854
- ISBN 13
- 9780395742853
- Edition
- First Edition; Stated First Printing.
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Reviews
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
It is the first day of the month, a lucky White Rabbit day, and Ruth calls granddaughter Karen in the early morning hours to say so first. After all, at 88 she needs all the luck she can muster. Foiled when Karen's faithless husband answers the phone, Ruth proceeds with her day?which will hardly be average. Despite attempts to adhere to her compulsive daily routine, Ruth is plagued by myriad pains, hallucinations, and memories of her past, primarily of her dearly loved first husband (as usual, she is aggravated by her current husband). By day's end, and perhaps simultaneously with the end of her life, she is left with two questions: Is it better to accept facts as they are or to reflect on how things might have been? Would life without illusions be any more bearable, or meaningful, or kind? These are worthy considerations for any of us. This first novel is well written but a bit depressing. Recommended for larger fiction collections.?Kimberly G. Allen, MCI Corporate Information Resources Ctr., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Curmudgeonly 88-year-old Ruth Caster Hubble is set in her ways and unabashed in her opinions. Awakening December 1 in Southern California, she realizes it is a "white rabbit day," the first day of the month and time to enact the monthly Caster clan tradition of calling another relative and being the first to say "white rabbit." It may be sentiment or mere superstition, but like other rituals in Ruth's life, it lends order to her world, providing a sense of stability and structure. Phillips shows respect and great empathy for Ruth's struggle to remain in the bland present while tempted to lapse into memory, finding it a more comfortable place to dwell. This is both a saddening and genuinely funny day-in-the-life of an aging woman, sensitively rendered with vibrant, witty dialogue and zoom lens^-glimpses of humanness. Young Phillips is in her element here, enjoying her story and enticing her readers, line by line, pulling them along, attentive and eager for her next sentence. One can only await with enthusiasm this new writer's next book, wondering what magic, beyond "white rabbits," she has in store. Janet St. John
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