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title: "Night Watch: A Novel"
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# Night Watch: A Novel

**Brand:** jayne anne phillipskarissa vackertheo stockmanmaggi-meg reedrandom house audio
**Price:** R$350
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- **What is this?** Night Watch: A Novel by jayne anne phillipskarissa vackertheo stockmanmaggi-meg reedrandom house audio
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An amazing, complex story.
  

*by P***D on Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2024*

Marvelous historical fiction, with a large dose of reality. The characters are very well drawn. I felt drawn into their stories. There sadness made me sad.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Art Expands Understanding of Crucial History
  

*by T***Y on Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2024*

Night Watch, a novel by Jayne Anne Phillips, this month won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It tells the story of women and anguish during the American Civil War and its aftermath, of mothers and surrogate mothers and widows caught in the killing of their husbands and children in battle. It is finally a story about a driven will to survive, to the breaking point, horrors that visit their lives. Men are not portrayed propitiously in this narrative.Phillips creates a specific reality for each of her characters and mixes their historical situations effectively. Husbands conscripted for war are lost to fighting. Families are sundered, in spirit or in fact. Without a male protector in isolated precincts, rape is a real fear, and vulnerability to theft a fact of life. Children are exploited and abused or rejected by mothers as spoiled by forceful parentage. Night Watch uncovers a world where women, codified by law as second-class citizens, must depend on men who shirk their duties and responsibilities. Laws promulgated to address injustice toward women and to protect their rights as citizens would come later. In 1874, the year of post-Civil War reconstruction used by Phillips, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was founded, and the political drive to outlaw alcohol commenced. In 1919 prohibition was ratified as the18th constitutional amendment in response to alcohol abuse disrupting domestic culture.Night Watch has a well-researched background for a fundamentally serious story on a serious topic set in America’s most serious history, the Civil War, and its aftermath. One fault of the narrative is an almost total lack of humor. Another is that the resolution suffers slightly but manifestly from contrivance. Against other virtues, this might be quibbling. In 1874 a woman at the edge of sanity is taken to a lunatic asylum because of horrifying circumstances and abuse. This is brilliantly and believably portrayed. Daughter ConaLee accompanies her mother, in a subterfuge that allows acceptance into the asylum, Eliza, now neurotically speechless and under the name of Miss Janet, finds sanctuary and safety. And more satisfying discoveries will eventually unfold.There is a buried intensity in how Jayne Anne Phillips writes. The Pulitzer Prize is focused on talent. Her sentences are sharp, paired; her scenes are vivid. Behind an obvious effort of research and story is a determination to serve art and life. This artistic fortitude makes the foundation for her entire novel.Though Phillips’s evocation of men as cowardly and morally evasive can weary as too unidirectional, her emphasis is historically accurate. She has a point. And she is writing history, not re-writing it. Using fiction as art’s way of expanding dimension and perspective, she speaks to what has become the clichéd, ignored, or even abandoned plight of women in our society. Her representation of what happened to her fictional characters in a carefully reconstructed account of a particular time resonates truth. The frangible nature of chance and fate for women during a war that took from them their men and boys is the undergirding theme of Night Watch. Jayne Anne Phillips has written her best novel so far, and it will stand.  --Tom Casey

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Excellent and Pulitzer story tragic yet uolifting!
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2024*

Although many may pass this one by because its civil war setting, I say give it a chance and embrace the  characters. The author cleverly switches the narration at book chapters. Maybe we have seen this before, but they also capture the characters essense in the writing style change, and that worked with me. We slowly learn more as the story progresses keeping us enthralled and engaged all the way to the end. I couldn't put it down! I could see this book as a movie too!

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