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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- English
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Shelter
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- LATE JULY, 1963 SHELTER COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA
- LENNY: HIGHER AND HIGHEST
- PARSON: IN THE SHACK AT NIGHT
- BUDDY CARMODY: BLACK LEAVES
- ALMA: THE BLACK FIELD
- LENNY: TURTLE HOLE
- PARSON: THE GIRL WHO WAS A FISH
- LENNY: BY THE RIVER
- ALMA: REVEILLE
- BUDDY CARMODY: TWO GIRLS
- PARSON: DUMP RUN
- ALMA: PLASTIC ROSES
- BUDDY CARMODY: POUNDING HEART
- LENNY: OFFERINGS
- BUDDY CARMODY: CARVE THE CROSS
- ALMA: STARS AND BREAD
- PARSON: AT THE WATER
- LENNY: TELL THE TRUTH
- ALMA: PHANTOM RADIO
- BUDDY CARMODY: A GIRL DOES
- LENNY: BRIGHT AIR
- ALMA: HERITAGE CLASS
- PARSON: MEANT TO DO
- ALMA: INTO THE TREES
- BUDDY CARMODY: DUST OF THE ROAD
- PARSON: DAMAGE
- LENNY: THE VOICE THAT DOESN'T TALK
- ALMA: DRAGON SPOONS
- BUDDY CARMODY: SAY AND SAY
- PARSON: HIS LEGION
- LENNY: CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS
- ALMA: WISE WORLD
- BUDDY CARMODY: CARRY US
- PARSON: THE CLOCK AND THE GATE
- ALMA: CONCERNING THE SOUL
- LENNY: BEAUTIFUL SEA
- BUDDY CARMODY: FAR FROM ANY OTHER
- LENNY: STARLESS
- PARSON: DREAM SO DEEP
- BUDDY CARMODY: DARK PARABLE
- LENNY: MIRACULOUS CREATURES
- ALMA: ARM OF LOVE
- EARLY NOVEMBER, 1963
- BUDDY CARMODY: HIS KINGDOM
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