Black Tickets: Stories
by Jayne Anne Phillips
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Author: Jayne Anne PhillipsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-09-11
ISBN: 0375727353
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: "I suck you up like erasers"?????
Summary: 1 Stars
This book hasn't aged well. There is very little plot, very little dialogue, and very few verbs. (Seriously, there are stretches of five or six "sentences" in a row with nary a verb to be seen.) There are some beautiful gems compacted into the dense prose, but for the most part Phillips crafted chewy, chunky, unwieldy sentences that don't give much pay-off for all the work you've done to decipher them. I have a Masters in literature, I have read and understood Ulysses, but I had to give up on many of the incomprehensible lines here. "I suck you up like erasers"? What?
The subject matter has aged poorly, too. In 2006, I'm neither shocked nor intrigued by Phillips's thinly veiled alter-ego's confrontation with her mother over birth control.
I can see why reviewers at the time were struck by the promise and poetry of her work; the story "1934" has the most plot in the collection, and is quite lovely. But is she, as Nadine Gordimer wrote, "the best short-story writer since Eudora Welty"?
Umm, no.
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