Secret Country Decoding Jayne Anne Phillips' Cryptic Fiction

"The Secret Country is the first monograph on the work of the contemporary American novelist Jayne Anne Phillips. Through detailed and innovative textual analysis this study considers the southern aspects of Phillips' writing. Robertson demonstrates the importance of Phillips' place within the southern literary canon by identifying the echoes of William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter and Edgar Allan Poe that permeate her work."--BOOK JACKET.Robertson, Sarah is the author of 'Secret Country Decoding Jayne Anne Phillips' Cryptic Fiction', published 2007 under ISBN 9789042021402 and ISBN 9042021403.