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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch: the reputation-making debut short story collection that paved the way for a new generation of writers. • “Brilliant … Phillips is a virtuoso.” —The Chicago Tribune

Jayne Anne Phillips’s reputation-making debut collection paved the way for a newgeneration of writers. Raved about by reviewers and embraced by the likes of RaymondCarver, Frank Conroy, Annie Dillard, and Nadine Gordimer,
Black Tickets now standsas a classic.

With an uncanny ability to depict the lives of men and women who rarelyregister in our literature, Phillips writes stories that lay bare their sufferingand joy. Here are the abused and the abandoned, the violent and the passive, theimpoverished and the disenfranchised who populate the small towns and rural bywaysof the country. A patron of the arts reserves his fondest feeling for the one manwho wants it least. A stripper, the daughter of a witch, escapes from poverty intoanother kind of violence. A young girl during the Depression is caught between thelove of her crazy father and the no less powerful love of her sorrowful mother. Theseare great American stories that have earned a privileged place in our literature.