by Jayne Anne Phillips · Delta Trade Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780440507772
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«Black Tickets» is Jayne Anne Phillips's collection of short stories, published by Delta Trade Paperbacks in paperback (265 pages, in English).
Stories about young people and adults on the margins of rural America: a rootless woman confronts her divorced parents, a teenager escapes foster homes to live with two addicts, and a serial killer recites his obsession. Phillips portrays with bold prose the search for love and redemption on the dark side of the American dream.
The author's first collection, published in 1979; it won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction in 1980. It was praised by Raymond Carver, Frank Conroy, Annie Dillard, and Nadine Gordimer.
For readers of short fiction and American literature who value lyrical prose and characters on the margins of society.
Jayne Anne Phillips is an American novelist and short story writer who was born in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia. She was a professor of English at Rutgers-Newark from 2005 to 2020 and helped establish the MFA program at Rutgers University-Newark.
