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While her aunt works to keep the family afloat in economically depressed 1950s West Virginia, 17-year-old Lark acts as a mother to her mute younger brother, Termite, and comes to terms with her and her brother's paltry choices in life. Intermingled with Lark's story is that of her father, Robert, whom she has never known, as he is serving in the U.S. army during the Korean War. Jayne Anne Phillips manages the rare trick of creating an emotionally rich novel that also pulls the reader along with the momentum of a top-rate mystery.
| Size | | Length: | 254 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 16.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[Jayne Anne] Phillips creates a wrenching portrait of devotion while keeping the suspense at a palpitating level.... [A] wonderful coming-of-age tale of grief and survival." (starred review)
(10/27/2008)
"Jayne Anne Phillips's intricate, deeply felt new novel reverberates with echoes of Faulkner, Woolf, Kerouac, McCullers and Michael Herr's war reporting, and yet it fuses all these wildly disparate influences into something incandescent and utterly original."
(01/06/2009)
"Phillips effects a satisfying balance in the novel's alternation between Termite's abstract, poetic flights, and the other narratives, which show a deft handling of suspense."
(03/20/2009)
"[A]nyone...who seriously cares about reading novels will find LARK AND TERMITE to be intricately and beautifully composed, absolutely assured in its telling, but also deeply strange and full of mystery."
(04/30/2009)
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