Self portrait 1978
"These stories of America's disenfranchised - men and women light years away from the American dream - are unlike any in our literature.
She's an original, and this book of hers is a crooked beauty."
Black Tickets marks the debut of a brilliant, prize-winning short-story writer whom Tillie Olsen has called "unparalled in her generation." Among the stories that established Jayne Anne Phillips's literary reputation are:
Gemcrack
A mass murderer traces the growth of his own obsession in a litany about alienation
and violence in America.
Home
A mother and daughter discuss sexuality in a landscape of emotional loss.
Lechery
A fourteen-year-old girl leaves a succession of foster homes for the black
and compelling world of two drug addicts.
Black
Tickets
A man relives, from a jail cell, his burning need for the woman who usurped
him.
The
Heavenly Animal
A young woman confronts her divorced parents, the inarticulate tenderness
of her father, and her own desperation.
El
Paso
Two drifters encounter a young Mexican girl in the bars and hot streets of
a Texas border town circa 1960.
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