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Machine
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ACCLAIM FOR
Jayne Anne Phillips's
MACHINE DREAMS
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“A
remarkable novelist debut and an enduring literary achievement. . . . Its subject
is history and the passage of time—as mirrored in the fortunes of the Hampson
family, whose own dissolution reflects the dislocations suffered by this country
in the wake of the 1960s and Vietnam. . . . This astonishing book establishes
Jayne Anne Phillips as a novelist of the first order.” |
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–Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
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“Reaches
one's deepest emotions. No number of books read or films seen can deaden one
to the intimate act of art by which this wonderful young writer has penetrated
the definitive experience of her generation.” |
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–Nadine Gordimer
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“A
story of conflict and love, of dreams put on perpetual hold, of losing faith
with America but not with Americans . . . . a book so deeply felt, so vividly
imagined, that its characters seem not created at all but people breathing.
. . . Machine Dreams shines with quiet eleoquence . . . a rare and important
work of fiction.” |
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–Newsday
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Spanish
translation
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“That
Machine Dreams would be among the year's best-written novels was easy
to predict; that it is among the wisest of a generation's attempts to grapple
with a war that maimed us all is a stunning surprise.” |
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–The Village Voice Literary Supplement
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“Astonishing
and mysterious. . . . The fascination is in the telling. . . . Phillips expresses
herself with clarity and grace: these lives matter..” |
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–Time
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Swedish
translation
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“Machine
Dreams seems itself a thing in flight: gliding above the American landscape,
illuminating a time and our own collective dream!” |
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–San Francisco Chronicle
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“A
novel so brilliant it sticks in your head long after you have read it. . . .
The compassion is so strong here that everyone is forgiven; Jayne Anne Phillips’
genius is to bring it home with such art and beauty and attention to detail
that you can’t help but say ‘Wow! This is gorgeous!’” |
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Original
Paperback Edition
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–Los Angeles Times
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“Lyrical
. . . Machine Dreams is a plain American beauty.” |
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–Vogue
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“An
intensely American, beauifully written first novel. Southern voices . . . so
true, and their experiences so fundamental to the hurly-burly of family life,
that this novel is one of the finest in contemporary fiction.” |
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British
Edition
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–The Wall Street Journal
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“One's
first reaction to this novel is the general pleasure that fine writing affords;
then, gradually, a deepening perception of the ironies of existence, communicated
through the experiences of ordinary people; and finally there comes a llump
in the throat and an almost palpable ache in the heart, in recognition of the
vision of life that Phillips, with a fierce gentleness, lays bare.” |
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Finnish
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–Publishers Weekly
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