Machine Dreams
Jayne Anne PhillipsWhile the couple fight to keep their marriage intact, their daughter Danner & son Billy forge a sibling bond of uncommon strength. When Billy goes off to Vietnam, Danner becomes the sole bond linking her family, whose dissolution mirrors the fractured state of America in the 1960s. Deeply felt & vividly imagined, this lyrical novel is "among the wisest of a generation to grapple with a war that maimed us all" (The Village Voice), by a master of contemporary fiction.
JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS is the author of Black Tickets, Machine Dreams, Shelter, MotherKind, Lark & Termite, & Quiet Dell. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Bunting Fellowship, & two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Winner of an Arts & Letters Award & the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters; she was inducted into the Academy in 2018. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award & twice a finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award. She lives in New York & Boston.