Night watch : a novel / Jayne Anne Phillips.
Material type: TextPublisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: Center Point Large Print editionDescription: 423 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781638089513
- 1638089515
- West Virginia Hospital for the Insane -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Caregivers -- Fiction
- Impersonation -- Fiction
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Fiction
- Veterans -- Fiction
- Asylums -- Fiction
- Mental illness -- Fiction
- Mute persons -- Fiction
- Large type books
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
- West Virginia -- History -- To 1950 -- Fiction
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Large Print Book | Main Library | Large Print Fiction | New | PHILLIPS JAYNE | Available | 33111011235658 |
Regular print version previously published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-422).
"In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a war veteran who has forced himself into their world. There, far from family, a beloved neighbor, and the mountain home they knew, they try to reclaim their lives. The omnipresent vagaries of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their story: their flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia; the disappearance of ConaLee's father, who left for the War and never returned. Meanwhile, in the asylum, they begin to find a new path. ConaLee pretends to be her mother's maid; Eliza responds slowly to treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility -- the mysterious man they call the Night Watch; the orphan child called Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution."-- Provided by publisher.