Small Town Girls
a writer's memoir
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Small Town Girls
Narrado por:
Jayne Anne Phillips
Compre agora por R$ 64,75
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Narrado por:
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Jayne Anne Phillips
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“The painful thing about adolescence is that everything seems absolute, and the painful thing about adulthood is that nothing does.”
Jayne Anne Phillips grew up in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia. The distinctly American landscape of Appalachia—dense with forests and small churches, rich in history and misunderstandings—has been the great setting for her fiction, even as she and her boundless imagination have traveled to other times and places. In these pieces, and in her singular first-person voice, at once intimate and wide-ranging, Phillips brings us into her childhood and family, most movingly her mother. She re-creates the place she calls home, its foundational truths and the densely woven ties between the women of the town. She traces her journeys across the country and her discovery of writing and reading as tools for both survival and revelation, offering insights into the fellow writers and touchstones that moved and influenced her. From the local beauty salon to the legendary Hatfield–McCoy feud, from Jean Shrimpton and Barbara Stanwyck to Stephen Crane and Breece D'J Pancake, Phillips ponders her relationship with inspiration, spirituality, culture, and the troubled annals of the last American centuries.
Tender, inviting, sparkling with wisdom and open-heartedness, Small Town Girls is part coming-of-age story, part social history, Jayne Anne Phillips’s most personal, most accessible book yet—a love letter to the place and the people who have shaped her perceptions and her writing.
Cover photo by Howard Hiner, courtesy of Daniel Green
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OPRAH'S #1 MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026
“Jayne Anne Phillips writes like a jeweler, setting each word like a gemstone.” —Here & Now/NPR
“Like a series of old photographs, the color-soaked images she conjures give her dreams a realness and her realism its dreaminess. . . . The effect is powerful indeed. . . . Like the best of Phillips’s fiction, its structure mimics the fracturing of modern American life as she has witnessed it.” —Wall Street Journal
“Phillips’s book is suffused with her love for where she came from and the memories of her ancestors.” —Boston Globe
★ “Phillips’s prose is unflagging in its beauty and rhythm, and the memoir-leaning pieces have a special glow. . . . West Virginia has no more eloquent and grateful daughter. Boy, can she write.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)
★ “Wonderful. . . . Equal parts wistful and pragmatic, Phillips’s autopsy of rural mid-century America doubles as a haunting and insightful self-portrait. Even readers unfamiliar with the author’s fiction will be riveted.” —Publishers Weekly (starred)
“A sparkling introduction to the author for those who don’t know her, and a peek behind the scenes of her life for those who do. . . . A mosaic of her voices: humorous, scholarly, pensive, nostalgic.” —Booklist
"What the film ‘The Last Picture Show’ began—Small Town Girls brings to fruition. This beautifully written revelation of the essence of The American Dream shines a light on the ways small towns created American girls, and the ways in which American girls created their small towns. And on this shimmers a brilliant Joycean layer of how places create writers and writers create place." —Alice Randall, author of My Black Country
“A poignant and generous memoir. . . . Jayne Anne Phillips [is] the region’s greatest living writer. . . . Skipping around in time, taking in history as well as memory, these essays make a state famous for coal mines and a John Denver song seem like a stage all of us have crossed. . . . Phillips is at her wisdom-literature best.” —Pittsburgh Review of Books
"Small Town Girls is a brilliant, wide-ranging book, nostalgic and tough-minded at the same time. Like Willa Cather and Stephen Crane, Jayne Anne Phillips writes prose that reads like plainspoken poetry, full of startling and vivid images that bring a vanished world back to life before our eyes." —Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers
“Jayne Anne Phillips writes like a jeweler, setting each word like a gemstone.” —Here & Now/NPR
“Like a series of old photographs, the color-soaked images she conjures give her dreams a realness and her realism its dreaminess. . . . The effect is powerful indeed. . . . Like the best of Phillips’s fiction, its structure mimics the fracturing of modern American life as she has witnessed it.” —Wall Street Journal
“Phillips’s book is suffused with her love for where she came from and the memories of her ancestors.” —Boston Globe
★ “Phillips’s prose is unflagging in its beauty and rhythm, and the memoir-leaning pieces have a special glow. . . . West Virginia has no more eloquent and grateful daughter. Boy, can she write.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)
★ “Wonderful. . . . Equal parts wistful and pragmatic, Phillips’s autopsy of rural mid-century America doubles as a haunting and insightful self-portrait. Even readers unfamiliar with the author’s fiction will be riveted.” —Publishers Weekly (starred)
“A sparkling introduction to the author for those who don’t know her, and a peek behind the scenes of her life for those who do. . . . A mosaic of her voices: humorous, scholarly, pensive, nostalgic.” —Booklist
"What the film ‘The Last Picture Show’ began—Small Town Girls brings to fruition. This beautifully written revelation of the essence of The American Dream shines a light on the ways small towns created American girls, and the ways in which American girls created their small towns. And on this shimmers a brilliant Joycean layer of how places create writers and writers create place." —Alice Randall, author of My Black Country
“A poignant and generous memoir. . . . Jayne Anne Phillips [is] the region’s greatest living writer. . . . Skipping around in time, taking in history as well as memory, these essays make a state famous for coal mines and a John Denver song seem like a stage all of us have crossed. . . . Phillips is at her wisdom-literature best.” —Pittsburgh Review of Books
"Small Town Girls is a brilliant, wide-ranging book, nostalgic and tough-minded at the same time. Like Willa Cather and Stephen Crane, Jayne Anne Phillips writes prose that reads like plainspoken poetry, full of startling and vivid images that bring a vanished world back to life before our eyes." —Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers
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