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Lark and Termite
Jayne Anne Phillips
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Description for Lark and Termite
Paperback. Lark and her brother, Termite, who is unable to walk or talk but is deeply loved by his family. The two are raised by their aunt Nonie in place of Lola, their mother, and Termite's father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, who is caught up in the chaos of the Korean War. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 256.
At the centre of this unforgettable novel are two chidlren: Lark and her brother, Termite, who is unable to walk or talk but is deeply loved by his family. The two are raised by their aunt Nonie in place of Lola, their mother, and Termite's father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, who is caught up in the chaos of the Korean War.
As the story shifts through time from West Virginia to Korea the mystery of Lola and Nonie's relationship slowly unravels, as does the story of Lark's hopes for herself and Termite, and her own desire for the personal history she has been denied.
The result is a rich and rewarding novel about the power of loss and love, the echoing ramifications of war, family secrets, dreams and ghosts, and the unseen, almost magical bonds that unite and sustain us.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099288749
SKU
9780099288749
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About Jayne Anne Phillips
Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of five works of fiction. The recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is currently Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. She divides her time between Boston, New York, and Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
Reviews for Lark and Termite
'This novel is cut like a diamond, with such sharp authenticity and bursts of light
Alice Munro Lark and Termite is extraordinary and it is luminous. This is not simply classic Jayne Anne Phillips. This is something far more extraordinary. It is an astounding feat of the imagination. It is the best novel I've read this year
Junot Díaz 'What a beautiful, beautiful novel this is - so rich and intricate in its drama, so elegantly written, so tender, so convincing, so penetrating, so incredibly moving. I can declare without hesitation or qualification that Lark and Termite is by far the best new novel I've read in the last five years or so
Tim O'Brien 'An extraordinary and brilliant piece of writing...a powerful and tender portrayal of a family'
Sunday Times
Consistently inventive, evocative and uncompromising. Haunting is a word much overused, but Lark and Termite is exactly that: a novel whose elegant lingering images are hard to shake from the memory. This is a glowing, powerful and immensely readable paean to the power of family
Independent
Jayne Anne Phillips's intricate, deeply felt new novel reverberates with echoes of Faulkner, Woolf, Kerouac, McCullers and Michael Herr's war reporting, and yet it fuses all these wildly disparate influences into something incandescent and utterly original
Michiko Kakutani
New York Times
An intense tale of love, loss and the bond of family that survive, almost miraculously, over time and space... What could have been a fairly conventional story... is transformed by Phillips into something extraordinary
Neel Mukherjee
The Times
'A moving meditation on the redemptive power of family and love'
Observer
Phillip's writing is distinctive, audacious and powerful
Daily Telegraph
Remarkable. It is a strange and joyous book which will yield much to the patient reader
Elis Ni Dhuibhne
Irish Times
Alice Munro Lark and Termite is extraordinary and it is luminous. This is not simply classic Jayne Anne Phillips. This is something far more extraordinary. It is an astounding feat of the imagination. It is the best novel I've read this year
Junot Díaz 'What a beautiful, beautiful novel this is - so rich and intricate in its drama, so elegantly written, so tender, so convincing, so penetrating, so incredibly moving. I can declare without hesitation or qualification that Lark and Termite is by far the best new novel I've read in the last five years or so
Tim O'Brien 'An extraordinary and brilliant piece of writing...a powerful and tender portrayal of a family'
Sunday Times
Consistently inventive, evocative and uncompromising. Haunting is a word much overused, but Lark and Termite is exactly that: a novel whose elegant lingering images are hard to shake from the memory. This is a glowing, powerful and immensely readable paean to the power of family
Independent
Jayne Anne Phillips's intricate, deeply felt new novel reverberates with echoes of Faulkner, Woolf, Kerouac, McCullers and Michael Herr's war reporting, and yet it fuses all these wildly disparate influences into something incandescent and utterly original
Michiko Kakutani
New York Times
An intense tale of love, loss and the bond of family that survive, almost miraculously, over time and space... What could have been a fairly conventional story... is transformed by Phillips into something extraordinary
Neel Mukherjee
The Times
'A moving meditation on the redemptive power of family and love'
Observer
Phillip's writing is distinctive, audacious and powerful
Daily Telegraph
Remarkable. It is a strange and joyous book which will yield much to the patient reader
Elis Ni Dhuibhne
Irish Times