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Jayne Anne Phillips has always been a master of portraiture both in her widelyacclaimed novels and in her short fiction. The stories in Fast Lanesdemonstrated the breadth of her talent in a tour de force of voices offeringelegantly rendered views into the lives of characters torn between theliberation of detachment and the desire to connect.Three stories are collected in this edition for the first time in Alma andadolescent daughter is made the confidante of her lonely mother Countingtraces the history of a dommed love affair and Callie evokes memories of thehaunting death of a child in 1920s West Virginia. Along with the originalseven stories from Fast Laneseach told in extraordinary first personnarratives that have been hailed by critics as virtuoso performancestheseincandescent portraits offer windows into the lives of an entire generation ofAmericans demonstrating again and again why Jayne Anne Phillips remains one ofour most powerful writers. «
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