Jayne Anne Phillips~PERSONALLY SIGNED~Night Watch~1st/1st~Pulitzer Prize Winner!

Description: NIGHT WATCH by 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner (Night Watch) Hampton Sides Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2023. Hardcover A great gift idea ! ~ for a friend ~ or just for yourself !!! SIGNED! SIGNED! SIGNED! Beautiful! Brand New! Stated First Edition, First Printing!PERSONALLY SIGNED by Jayne Anne Phillips directly on the full title page!(NOT signed to anyone) NOT PRE-SIGNED ON PUBLISHER'S TIPPED-IN PAGE!! Book is Fine, Brand New and Unread. No marks, no inscriptions. Dust jacket is Fine, Brand New, NOT price-clipped, and in a protective mylar cover. A Must Have for any Jayne Anne Phillips fan !!! ~ A Beautiful Autographed First Edition/First Printing for Collectors ~ PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From one of our most accomplished novelists, 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 "A tour de force." —Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn’t spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital’s entrance by a war veteran who has forced himself into their world. There, far from family, a beloved neighbor, and the mountain home they knew, they try to reclaim their lives. The omnipresent vagaries of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their story: their flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia; the disappearance of ConaLee’s father, who left for the War and never returned. Meanwhile, in the asylum, they begin to find a new path. ConaLee pretends to be her mother’s maid; Eliza responds slowly to treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility—the mysterious man they call the Night Watch; the orphan child called Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution. Epic, enthralling, and meticulously crafted, Night Watch is a stunning chronicle of surviving war and its aftermath.Reviews“Beautiful, mournful . . . Carefully and engrossingly crafted . . . The good suffer equally with the bad. Phillips’s artistic conscience won’t let her flinch from this truth, but her generous heart won’t let it be the last word. She leaves readers with a rueful yet doggedly hopeful maxim that could easily serve as an epigraph for Night Watch as a whole: ‘Endurance was strength.’”—Wendy Smith, The Washington Post “A story of trauma and restoration in the aftermath of the Civil War . . . Ms. Phillips presents harrowing, visceral scenes of war, but a lot of this novel relates the daily business of convalescence in an asylum, with loving attention given to the motley staff that tends to the unwell . . . The theme of healing extends to the plot. Ms. Phillips, who is drawn to depicting the poor, the mentally disabled, the wounded and other vulnerable souls, is a principled practitioner of narrative magic. Not only serendipity but a kind of clairvoyance connects the characters . . . Goodness is a real thing in this novel—a verifiable force—and the question posed is whether we still have the sensitivity to discern it.”—Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal “Phillips is very good at is capturing a sort of inner dialect, conveyed here in a language inflected with a Southern twang, modulated to reflect characters’ social status and degree of education . . . It is when Phillips channels [these] thoughts that the telling, like the story itself, becomes [so] compelling, even beautiful.”—Ellen Akins, Minneapolis Star Tribune “Phillips is at the top of her game in Night Watch, devising a mesmerizing plot, which focuses on survival, family and isolation. It is a portrait of a family in peril, and the reader will be impressed with this novel, which rivals [Phillips’s previous novel] National Book Award finalist, Lark And Termite.”—Wayne Catan, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Phillips’s depiction of a ravaged world in which so many have lost their way or had it stolen from them, both physically and mentally, feels true to the profoundly destabilizing nature of her subject . . . With this excellent novel, Phillips has brought a little more of this foundational American episode into the light.”—Laird Hunt, The Guardian “Phillips’ intricately woven storylines are engaging, and her characters range from endearing to haunting . . . There are dozens of passages in Night Watch that deliver moments so vivid, so full of sensory awareness, that they demand both immediate rereading and the folding down of the appropriate page’s corner so they can be revisited. Read this book for those passages. Read it to learn a history you didn’t know you didn’t know. Actually, just read this remarkable novel to be enriched in your understanding of an era that has been so very much forgotten. Read Night Watch to be enlightened.”—Kristin Macomber, Washington Independent Review of Books “There is a luminous beauty in Phillips's prose. Whether it is the dark interiors of war—which have become her forte—or the equally complex and fraught lives of so-called ‘ordinary’ people, Phillips brings these theaters of peace and loss, death and transcendence together with a remarkable alchemy.”—Ken Burns, filmmaker “Jayne Anne Phillips is a brilliant artist working at the height of her powers. Word by word, and line by line, there is no one better. This novel lives where a startling imagination meets scrupulous research: Night Watch is a tour de force—breathtaking in both its scope and intensity."—Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage About the AuthorJAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS is the author of Black Tickets, Machine Dreams, Fast Lanes, Shelter, MotherKind, Lark and Termite, and Quiet Dell. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Bunting Fellowship, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Winner of an Arts and Letters Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she was inducted into the Academy in 2018. A National Book Award finalist, and twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, she lives in New York and Boston. PLEASE NOTE: We have several signed copies of this book, and the signature you receive may vary slightly from the one pictured. 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