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Night Watch: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024  

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ISBN: 9780349727813

A haunting story of conflict with hope at its heart' Daily Mail
'A tour de force - breathtaking in both its scope and intensity' TAYARI JONES
'Shatteringly particular and audaciously universal' ALICE RANDALL
'Excellent... Phillips has brought a little more of this foundational American episode into the light' GUARDIAN
In the wake of the Civil War, twelve-year-old ConaLee and her mother Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year, arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia. Delivered to the hospital by a war veteran known to ConaLee as Papa, mother and daughter are soon swept up in the life of the facility and its characters: the night watchman who lost his eye in battle, the child called Weed, the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen, and the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution. There, far from family and the mountain home they knew, ConaLee and Eliza try to reclaim their lives, and uncover identities lost, hidden or unknown.
Night Watch was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024 on 6 May 2024

About the Author:

Pulitzer Prize winning author Jayne Anne Phillips was born and raised in small town West Virginia and hitchhiked across the US with a woman friend when she was 19. At 26, a year out of grad school, she published Black Tickets, a first book of stories that influenced a generation of writers and won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy. Her first novel, Machine Dreams, the VietNam era story of a deathless brother-sister bond and a war that maimed a generation, was a finalist for the National Book Critic's Award, and was chosen one of twelve Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review. A second book of stories, Fast Lanes, preceded her novel, Shelter, winner of an Academy Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, tells a story of adolescent girls in a 60’s era Girl Guides camp set in a forest primeval: the backdrop for a sensual battle between good and evil. 

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Night Watch: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024 by Jayne Anne Phillip

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