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Night watch
- Title
- Night watch / Jayne Anne Phillips.
- Author
- Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
- ©2023
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 23-3096 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 275 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In 1874, in the wake of the Civil War, eleven-year-old ConaLee and her mother arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia. They're delivered to the hospital's entrance by Papa--an abusive veteran who forces himself into their lives--after ConaLee's mother, who hasn't spoken in a year, grows even more withdrawn. Before he departs, Papa assigns them new identities and demands that ConaLee introduce herself as her mother's nurse--not her daughter--so they'll both be admitted and allowed to stay. There, far from family, their beloved neighbor, Dearbhla, and the home they know, ConaLee will care for her mother and try to reclaim their lives. Years earlier, ConaLee's father left for the war before she was born and never returned. After suffering a life-threatening head wound in battle, he couldn't remember his name, his family, or where he came from. Forced to start over, he takes the name of the doctor who gave him a second life, and ventures back into the world looking for work and the truth about his past"--
- Subject
- Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum > Fiction
- 1861-1877
- Families > Fiction
- Mothers and daughters > Fiction
- Mental illness > Fiction
- Selective mutism > Fiction
- Amnesia > Fiction
- Psychic trauma > Fiction
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Fiction
- Families
- Mothers and daughters
- Mental illness
- Selective mutism
- Amnesia
- Psychic trauma
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- Family members
- Mental disorders
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Fiction
- United States
- United States > Confederate States of America
- Genre/Form
- Novels.
- Historical fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Medical fiction.
- History.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-3096
- ISBN
- 9780451493330
- 0451493338
- 9780451493347 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022039327
- OCLC
- 1343161077
- Author
- Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952- author.
- Title
- Night watch / Jayne Anne Phillips.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1861-1877
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-3096