Format:
Large Print, Book
Author:
Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952- author.
Title:
Night watch [text (large print)] : a novel / Jayne Anne Phillips.
Edition:
Center Point Large Print edition.
Publisher, Date:
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2023.
©2023
Description:
423 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
large print.
Summary:
"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.
Subjects:
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.
West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
West Virginia -- History -- To 1950 -- Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Large print books.
Novels.
Notes:
Regular print version previously published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-422).
LCCN:
2023944186
ISBN:
9781638089513 (hardback : alk. paper)
1638089515
Other Number:
1405895438
System Availability:
3
Current Holds:
2
Control Number:
4035875
Call Number:
813/.54
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
1
Medium:
[text (large print)]