{"product_id":"night-watch-9780349727806","title":"Night Watch","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant new book from award-winning author Jayne Anne Phillips, set during the American Civil War and seen through the eyes of ConaLee, a teenage girl in the divided state of Virginia, whose father is away fighting for the Union.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhillips's depiction of a ravaged world in which so many have lost their way or had it stolen from them, both physically and mentally, feels true to the profoundly destabilising nature of her subject...\u003cb\u003eWith this excellent novel, Phillips has brought a little more of this foundational American episode into the light\u003c\/b\u003e * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eJayne Anne Phillips is a brilliant artist working at the height of her powers. Word by word, and line by line, there is no one better. This novel lives where a startling imagination meets scrupulous research:\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eNight Watch\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force - breathtaking in both its scope and intensity\u003c\/b\u003e -- Tayari Jones, author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE\u003cbr\u003eThere is a luminous beauty in Phillips's prose. Whether it is the dark interiors of war - which have become her forte - or the equally complex and fraught lives of so-called 'ordinary' people,\u003cb\u003e Phillips brings these theaters of peace and loss, death and transcendence together with a remarkable alchemy\u003c\/b\u003e -- Ken Burns, filmmaker\u003cbr\u003eA superb meditation on broken families in post-Civil War West Virginia . . . \u003cb\u003eThe bruised and turbulent postbellum era comes alive in Phillips's page-turning affair\u003c\/b\u003e * Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW *\u003cbr\u003eExpect coincidences and convolutions . . . Phillips pulls them off with\u003cb\u003e gorgeous prose, attention to detail, and masterful characters. Haunting storytelling and a refreshing look at history\u003c\/b\u003e * Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA profound meditation on identity, empathy, sanity, daughter-love, nature, and the Civil War, \u003ci\u003eNight Watch\u003c\/i\u003e will leave you shook and sustained\u003c\/b\u003e. This novel delivers fictional reckoning that makes way for the potential of real-world reconciliation by delivering complex and necessary testimony and confession. Weaving photographs and fragments of non-fiction prose into an intimate family story, \u003ci\u003eNight Watch\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003eat once shatteringly particular and audaciously universal\u003c\/b\u003e. Jayne Anne Phillips arrives at the crowning achievement of an extraordinary career -- Alice Randall, author of BLACK BOTTOM SAINTS\u003cbr\u003eJayne Anne Phillips is a wonderfully gifted storyteller, and \u003cb\u003efew contemporary writers can match the lyricism of her prose\u003c\/b\u003e, but in this marvelous new novel, largely set in a factual nineteenth-century asylum, she achieves even more: \u003cb\u003e history and imagination merge, and she gives the past a living pulse\u003c\/b\u003e -- Ron Rash, author of THE CARETAKER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lovely piece of work\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003ci\u003eNight Watch\u003c\/i\u003e is another of Jayne Anne Phillips's intimate revelatory creations -- Dorothy Allison, author of BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA searing portrait of the cruelties of race, the insanity of war, and the tragedy of its aftermath\u003c\/b\u003e -- Drew Gilpin Faust, author of THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING: DEATH AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR\u003cbr\u003eIt's hard to know what to praise first - Jayne Anne Phillips' signature beautiful sentences, the compelling scenes of battle and their ravaged aftermath, the fascinating portrayal of Dr Thomas Story Kirkbride's 'moral treatment' method for the mentally ill, or the vivid depiction of the people and land of West Virginia in the 1860s and 70s. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNight Watch\u003c\/i\u003e takes a highly deserved place among important novels about war and its legacy\u003c\/b\u003e -- Alice Elliot Dark, author of FELLOWSHIP POINT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn unsparing novel that illuminates the human cost\u003c\/b\u003e . . . with this excellent novel, Phillips has brought a little more of this foundational American episode into the light * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003ePhillips's depiction of a ravaged world in which so many have lost their way or had it stolen from them, both physically and mentally, feels true to the profoundly destabilising nature of her subject...\u003cb\u003eWith this excellent novel, Phillips has brought a little more of this foundational American episode into the light\u003c\/b\u003e * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eJayne Anne Phillips is a brilliant artist working at the height of her powers. Word by word, and line by line, there is no one better. This novel lives where a startling imagination meets scrupulous research:\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eNight Watch\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force - breathtaking in both its scope and intensity\u003c\/b\u003e -- Tayari Jones, author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE\u003cbr\u003eThere is a luminous beauty in Phillips's prose. Whether it is the dark interiors of war - which have become her forte - or the equally complex and fraught lives of so-called 'ordinary' people,\u003cb\u003e Phillips brings these theaters of peace and loss, death and transcendence together with a remarkable alchemy\u003c\/b\u003e -- Ken Burns, filmmaker\u003cbr\u003eA superb meditation on broken families in post-Civil War West Virginia . . . \u003cb\u003eThe bruised and turbulent postbellum era comes alive in Phillips's page-turning affair\u003c\/b\u003e * Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW *\u003cbr\u003eExpect coincidences and convolutions . . . Phillips pulls them off with\u003cb\u003e gorgeous prose, attention to detail, and masterful characters. Haunting storytelling and a refreshing look at history\u003c\/b\u003e * Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA profound meditation on identity, empathy, sanity, daughter-love, nature, and the Civil War, \u003ci\u003eNight Watch\u003c\/i\u003e will leave you shook and sustained\u003c\/b\u003e. This novel delivers fictional reckoning that makes way for the potential of real-world reconciliation by delivering complex and necessary testimony and confession. Weaving photographs and fragments of non-fiction prose into an intimate family story, \u003ci\u003eNight Watch\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003eat once shatteringly particular and audaciously universal\u003c\/b\u003e. Jayne Anne Phillips arrives at the crowning achievement of an extraordinary career -- Alice Randall, author of BLACK BOTTOM SAINTS\u003cbr\u003eJayne Anne Phillips is a wonderfully gifted storyteller, and \u003cb\u003efew contemporary writers can match the lyricism of her prose\u003c\/b\u003e, but in this marvelous new novel, largely set in a factual nineteenth-century asylum, she achieves even more: \u003cb\u003e history and imagination merge, and she gives the past a living pulse\u003c\/b\u003e -- Ron Rash, author of THE CARETAKER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lovely piece of work\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003ci\u003eNight Watch\u003c\/i\u003e is another of Jayne Anne Phillips's intimate revelatory creations -- Dorothy Allison, author of BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA searing portrait of the cruelties of race, the insanity of war, and the tragedy of its aftermath\u003c\/b\u003e -- Drew Gilpin Faust, author of THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING: DEATH AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR\u003cbr\u003eIt's hard to know what to praise first - Jayne Anne Phillips' signature beautiful sentences, the compelling scenes of battle and their ravaged aftermath, the fascinating portrayal of Dr Thomas Story Kirkbride's 'moral treatment' method for the mentally ill, or the vivid depiction of the people and land of West Virginia in the 1860s and 70s. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNight Watch\u003c\/i\u003e takes a highly deserved place among important novels about war and its legacy\u003c\/b\u003e -- Alice Elliot Dark, author of FELLOWSHIP POINT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn unsparing novel that illuminates the human cost\u003c\/b\u003e . . . with this excellent novel, Phillips has brought a little more of this foundational American episode into the light * Guardian *","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401860981079,"sku":"9780349727806","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/night-watch-9780349727806","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}