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Motherkind: A Novel
(Hardcover, 2000)
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Author: Jayne Anne Phillips
Jayne Anne Phillips writes a somewhat conventional novel about Kate Tateman, a Boston poet who becom...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0375401946
ISBN-13: 9780375401947
Apr 2000
Publisher: Random House Inc
295 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Jayne Anne Phillips writes a somewhat conventional novel about Kate Tateman, a Boston poet who becomes pregnant by the man she loves. Things are complicated by his two sons, and, simultaneously, her mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Trying to juggle her new family and her mother's illness, Kate inevitably dreams about the days when she was young and irresponsible. But she carries on, and remains a paragon of enlightened coping until the end.
| Size | | Length: | 295 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 22.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Despite her gift for gorgeous prose, Phillips is not entirely successful in breathing new life into this combination of domestic dramas so familiar in fiction....An ambitious if uneven attempt to write passionately in a minor key about commonplace yet central life experiences."
Manning
"Phillips's gift is for stretching lives taut until they shriek like guitar strings snapping. Here she stretches them more quietly in what has become a familiar genre: a domestic novel about characters struggling to decode the lean messages of suburban existence....[T]here are many pages that the writing fails to bring to life. There is simply too much suburban domesticity lacking the kind of transformation that an Updike or an Anne Tyler or an Alice McDermott is able to achieve."
Eder
"In MOTHERKIND the narrative voice...provides no more than a factual recital which falters when it reaches for poetic effect or abstract commentary. The compromises of daily life seem to be reflected in the compromises of the novel's language."
London Review of Books - Justine Jordan (02/22/2001)
"Picture the paradoxical energy in a Mary Cassatt portrait of mother and child--all the stillness and serenity of maternity and all the raging life that lies ahead for both of them. In Jayne Anne Phillips' beautifully composed and emotionally wrenching new novel, we have a literary equivalent to that kind of maternal portrait....You'll weep...by the end of this beautiful and moving work of fiction that celebrates the sacredness of ordinary life."
Chicago Tribune Books - Alan Cheuse (05/14/2000)
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