Shelter
by Jayne Anne Phillips
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In a West Virginia girls camp in July 1963, a group of children experience an unexpected rite of passage. Shelter is an astonishing portrayal of an American loss of innocence as witnessed by a drifter named Parson, two young sisters, Lenny and Alma, and a feral boy. Like Buddy, the wide-eyed boy so at home in the natural bower of the forest, Lenny and Alma are forever transformed by violence, by family secrets, by surprising turns of love. What they choose to remember, what they meet within show more and around the boundaries of the camp, will determine the rest of their lives. In a leafy wilderness undiminished by societal rules and dilemmas, Lenny and Alma confront a terrible darkness and find in themselves a knowledge never lent them by the adult world. Visceral, filled with suspense and surprise, Shelter is an extraordinary achievement. Jayne Anne Phillips continues to explore family ties and generational complexities. She questions the idea of the existence of evil and brings to startling immediacy the primal divinity of the isolated, mountainous landscape of rural Appalachia. Shelter is a novel of transcendent beauty by one of the finest writers of our time. show lessTags
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Notes, 1997
Dreamy, evocative, suspenseful, striking. No children were ever like this, but that's not the point. It draws you in. But it's tedious at times.
Dreamy, evocative, suspenseful, striking. No children were ever like this, but that's not the point. It draws you in. But it's tedious at times.
I don't like leaving a gift book unread, but after 88 pages, it's just not doing it for me.
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Jayne Anne Phillips lives in Massachusetts. (Publisher Provided) Jayne Anne Phillips was born on July 19, 1952 in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She graduated from West Virginia University (1974) and earned her M. F. A. at the University of Iowa (1978). She has taught at the University of Iowa, Humbolt State University, Radcliffe College, Boston show more University and Harvard. She was named writer-in-residence at Brandeis University in 1996. Her works, including two short story collections and several novels, have been translated into 14 languages. One novel, Machine Dreams, was nominated for the Nation Book Critics Award. She has also received the Sue Kaufman Award from the America Adademy and Institute of Arts and Letters. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title*
- Suojelus
- Original title
- Shelter
- Original publication date
- 1994
- People/Characters*
- Lenore "Lenny" Swenson; Alma Swenson; Delia Campbell; Catherine "Cap" Briarley; Carmody; Hilda Carmody (show all 12); Buddy Carmody; Virginia Thompson-Warner; Frank; Pastori; McAdams; Pearlie
- Epigraph*
- Ja minä näin tulevan taivaasta alas enkelin,
jolla oli syvyyden avain ja suuret kahleet kädessään.
Ja hän otti kiinni lohikäärmeen, sen vanhan käärmeen,
joka on perkele ja saatana, ja sitoi hänet tuhanne... (show all)ksi vuodeksi
ja heitti hänet syvyyteen ja sulki ja lukitsi sen sinetillä hänen jälkeensä,
ettei hän enää kansoja villitsisi, siihen asti kuin ne tuhat vuotta ovat loppuun kuluneet;
sen jälkeen hänet pitää päästettämän irti vähäksi aikaa.
- Johanneksen ilmestys 200:1-3
Kauhea on joka enkeli.
- Rilke, Duinon elegiat (suom. Aila Meriluoto) - Dedication*
- Samille
- First words*
- Taivaan palo vaihtui valkoisesta oljenvaalean kautta väkevään siniseen.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Äiti sanoo että se on söpö, äiti antaa pullon jolla ruokkia sitä.
- Original language
- English US
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