Shelter
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set in the mountains of West Virginia during the summer of 1963, Shelter is a haunting and lyrical novel that draws four young girls into a season of darkness, desire, and revelation at a girls' summer camp. Jayne Anne Phillips weaves together the voices of campers Lenny and Alma, their troubled companions, and the shadowy figures lurking at the camp's periphery — including a dangerous ex-convict and a feral boy — to construct a story of innocence irrevocably lost against the backdrop of a changing America. Phillips writes with a fierce, poetic intensity that transforms the familiar landscape of adolescent coming-of-age into something mythic and deeply unsettling. Her prose — dense, sensory, and incantatory — channels the inner lives of her characters with extraordinary precision, drawing on themes of trauma, survival, family legacy, and the violence simmering beneath the surface of American pastoral life. Widely regarded as one of the most ambitious American novels of the 1990s, Shelter stands as a testament to Phillips's singular voice, leaving readers to wonder what it truly means to find safety in an unsafe world.
Author: Jayne Anne Phillips
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set in the mountains of West Virginia during the summer of 1963, Shelter is a haunting and lyrical novel that draws four young girls into a season of darkness, desire, and revelation at a girls' summer camp. Jayne Anne Phillips weaves together the voices of campers Lenny and Alma, their troubled companions, and the shadowy figures lurking at the camp's periphery — including a dangerous ex-convict and a feral boy — to construct a story of innocence irrevocably lost against the backdrop of a changing America. Phillips writes with a fierce, poetic intensity that transforms the familiar landscape of adolescent coming-of-age into something mythic and deeply unsettling. Her prose — dense, sensory, and incantatory — channels the inner lives of her characters with extraordinary precision, drawing on themes of trauma, survival, family legacy, and the violence simmering beneath the surface of American pastoral life. Widely regarded as one of the most ambitious American novels of the 1990s, Shelter stands as a testament to Phillips's singular voice, leaving readers to wonder what it truly means to find safety in an unsafe world.