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Shelter

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    United States, HarperCollins, 1994
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Equitable Access to Reading Program.

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    1994
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    In a West Virginia girls' camp in July 1963, a group of children experience an unexpected rite of passage. *Shelter* is an astonishing portrayal of an American loss of innocence as witnessed by a drifter named Parson, two young sisters, Lenny and Alma, and a feral boy. Like Buddy, the wide-eyed boy so at home in the natural bower of the forest, Lenny and Alma are forever transformed by violence, by family secrets, by surprising turns of love. What they choose to remember, what they meet within and around the boundaries of the camp, will determine the rest of their lives. In a leafy wilderness undiminished by societal rules and dilemmas, Lenny and Alma confront a terrible darkness and find in themselves a knowledge never lent them by the adult world. Visceral, filled with suspense and surprise, *Shelter* is an extraordinary achievement. Jayne Anne Phillips continues to explore family ties and generational complexities. She questions the idea of the existence of evil and brings to startling immediacy the primal divinity of the isolated, mountainous landscape of rural Appalachia. *Shelter* is a novel of transcendent beauty by one of the finest writers of our time.

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    Original Publisher: New York, Mariner Books, [United States], HarperCollins
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780547940816