Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of Lark and Termite , a book that the NYT states: “In the hands of another writer such subject matter might easily turn into maudlin melodrama, but Ms. Phillips knows her characters so intimately and tackles their stories with such ferocity that the novel does not devolve into soap opera but instead ascends into the higher, more rarified altitudes of fable.”
Publishers Weekly notes: “Phillips creates a wrenching portrait of devotion while keeping the suspense at a palpitating level.”
The NYT also states: “Ms. Phillips has done such an assured and sympathetic job of delineating all her characters and their complicated ties to one another that these revelations feel completely fitting and in retrospect perhaps even obvious.”
The reviewer is putting this novel on par with her 1984 classic “Machine Dreams.”
If you’d like to read an excerpt, visit the NYT article .
Knopf, 272 pages.
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