Shelter

Jayne Anne Phillips

earliest edition we have, 1994 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers, 1994

In a West Virginia girls' camp in July 1963, a group of children experience an unexpected rite of passage. Shelter is an astonishing portrayal of an American loss of innocence as witnessed by a drifter named Parson, two young sisters, Lenny and Alma, and a feral boy. Like Buddy, the wide-eyed boy so at home in the natural bower of the forest, Lenny and Alma are forever transformed by violence, by family secrets, by s...

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Editions we hold

Shelter edition · 2002 · Vintage · 320 pages
Shelter edition · 1996 · Faber & Faber · 320 pages
Shelter edition · 1995 · Faber · 300 pages
Shelter edition · 1995 · Delta · 320 pages
Shelter edition · 1995 · Vintage Canada · 320 pages · 9780394224930
Shelter edition · 1994 · Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence · 279 pages
Shelter edition · 1994 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · 9781299888357
Shelter edition · 1994 · McClelland & Stewart · 279 pages · 9780771069970

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