Fast Lanes

by Jayne Anne Phillips

Book Overview

Jayne Anne Phillips has always been a master of portraiture, both in her widely acclaimed novels and in her short fiction. The stories in Fast Lanes demonstrated the breadth of her talent in a tour de force of voices, offering elegantly rendered views into the lives of characters torn between the liberation of detachment and the desire to connect. Three stories are collected in this edition for the first time: in "Alma," and adolescent daughter is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525245154
• ISBN13: 9780525245155
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Height of her powers

This, for me, still stands as Jayne Anne Phillips finest and most accomplished achievement. Ravishing use of language which never loses sight of the essential humanity of her characters. Not to play favorites, but the stories here that speak most eloquently to me are the two chapters that were excised from her novel MACHINE DREAMS and reworked -- BLUE MOON and BESS. Exquisite.