MotherKind
  • Published: 4 May 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099288732
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.99

MotherKind

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'One of America's finest novelists... MotherKind is impressive and deeply moving... Compulsively readable' - Sunday Telegraph

Kate - whose care for her terminally ill mother coincides with the birth of her first child in the early months of a young marriage - must, in a single year, come to terms with radiant beginnings and profound loss.

Kate's everyday world is enveloped by the gradual vanishing of her mother. And as the woman who has been her best friend and mentor disappears, we see Kate deal with timeless, perhaps unanswerable, questions of love and death.
  • Published: 4 May 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099288732
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Jayne Anne Phillips

Jayne Anne Phillips, born and raised in West Virginia, is the author of four previous novels, Lark and Termite, MotherKind, Shelter, and Machine Dreams, and two widely anthologised collections of stories, Fast Lanes and Black Tickets. Lark and Termite, winner of the Heartland Prize, was a Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Prix de Médicis Étranger. Phillips is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Bunting Fellowship, the Sue Kaufman Prize and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She is the Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the MFA Programme at Rugters-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. She divides her time between Boston, New York and New Jersey.

www.jayneannephillips.com

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Praise for MotherKind

Phillips's writing is distinctive, audacious and powerful

Daily Telegraph

A brilliant writer, utterly original and with an astonishing range

Ian McEwan

Jayne Anne Phillips combines extraordinary perception with extraordinary versatility and power

Margaret Atwood

No number of books read or films seen can deaden one to the intimate act of art by which this wonderful young writer has penetrated the definitive experience of her generation

Nadine Gordimer

Delicate compassion and hard-edged honesty... MotherKind is further proof of an extraordinary ability to reflect the texture of real life

Washington Post Book World