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Fast Lanes
A General Fiction Short Story Collection by Jayne Anne Phillips
Subgenres:
- Short Stories,
- Literary Fiction,
- 1920s West Virginia
This book is for you if you're into...
- First person stories with raw, intimate voices
- Portraits of longing and connection across generations
- Stories set in 1920s West Virginia and modern America
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch: a short story collection that presents a tour de force of voices, offering elegantly rendered views into the lives of characters torn between the liberation of detachment and the desire to connect.
Three stories are collected in this edition for the first time: in "Alma," an adolescent daughter is made the confidante of her lonely mother; "Counting" traces the history of a doomed love affair; and "Callie" evokes memories of the haunting death of a child in 1920's West Virginia.
Along with the original seven stories from Fast Lanes—each told in extraordinary first person narratives that have been hailed by critics as virtuoso performances—these incandescent portraits offer windows into the lives of an entire generation of Americans, demonstrating again and again why Jayne Anne Phillips remains one of our most powerful writers.
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