內(nèi)容簡介:Jayne Anne Phillips' brilliant new novel explores the spiritual education at the heart of that fundamental transition: the child becoming the caretaker of the parent. In MOTHERKIND, 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. Phillips tells Kate's story in a delicately layered narrative in which the daily details of life resonate with import and meaning. We enter the world of Kate's marriage, of babies and stepchildren, neighbours and friends. We watch as the tumult of 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. It is the triumph of MOTHERKIND that Kate's complex experience being - and losing - a mother is so luminously portrayed.
作者簡介:Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of two novels, Shelter (1994) and Machine Dreams (1984), and two collections of widely anthologized stories, Fast Lanes (1987) and Black Tickets (1979). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a Bunting Fellowship. She has been awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (1980) and an Academy Award in Literature (1997) by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has appeared most recently in Granta, DoubleTake and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. She is currently Writer in Residence at Brandeis University. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.