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Night Watch

Name: Night Watch
Brand: Little, Brown Book Group
SKU: 9780349727813
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024

By Jayne Anne Phillips

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 'A haunting story of conflict with hope at its heart' Daily Mail 'A tour de force - breathtaking in both its scope and intensity' TAYARI JONES 'Shatteringly particular and audaciously universal' ALICE RANDALL 'Excellent... Phillips has brought a... Read More

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Night Watch

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Night Watch

A mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War - and a brilliant portrait of family endurance against all odds

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024

'A haunting story of conflict with hope at its heart' Daily Mail

'A tour de force - breathtaking in both its scope and intensity' TAYARI JONES

'Shatteringly particular and audaciously universal' ALICE RANDALL

'Excellent... Phillips has brought a little more of this foundational American episode into the light' Guardian

In the wake of the Civil War, twelve-year-old ConaLee and her mother Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year, arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia. Delivered to the hospital by a war veteran known to ConaLee as Papa, mother and daughter are soon swept up in the life of the facility and its characters: the night watchman who lost his eye in battle, the child called Weed, the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen, and the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution. There, far from family and the mountain home they knew, ConaLee and Eliza try to reclaim their lives, and uncover identities lost, hidden or unknown.

Night Watch was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024 on 6 May 2024.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349727813

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 January 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Fleet

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 242g

Pages: 304

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About the Author

Jayne Anne Phillips was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She is the author of four novels, Lark and Termite (2008), MotherKind (2000), 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 been translated into twelve languages, and has appeared in Granta, Harper's, DoubleTake, and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. She is currently Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.