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Look Homeward, Angels
Schwartz, Deb | November 14, 1994 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Shelter," by Jayne Anne Phillips. For Jayne Anne Phillips, tragedy and loss are endemic to American families, as persistent and insidious as cancer and as ordinary as groceries. She stalks generations of small-town West Virginia families through wars, affairs, economic crises and abuse and finds inside their heads a loose weave of memory, dreams and sensations periodically torn asunder by horror and death. Phillips is decidedly contemporary, and notable among her peers because she pairs her realism with such thick sensory detail, in a tightly controlled investigation of the power of memory and dreams to replace what the years steal away.

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SHELTER (Book); PHILLIPS, Jayne Anne; FAMILIES; REALISM; BOOKS; WEST Virginia; UNITED States
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