Books by Holly Phillips and Complete Book Reviews
Holly Phillips, Author . Prime $29.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-894815-58-1
This collection of nine fantasy and slipstream short stories from Canadian author Phillips, her first book, offers a neat package of quietly thoughtful, composed writing. In the title story and "The Other Grace," characters must deal with...
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Holly Phillips, Author . Prime $29.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-8095-5065-4
Canadian Phillips's challenging first novel, a dense literary fantasy, requires two readings—first to appreciate the sensuous prose, second to get some idea of the plot. On release from the hospital, Ryder "Rye" Coleman has...
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Holly Phillips, Author . Del Rey $15 (386p) ISBN 978-0-345-49965-3
In this murky, unpleasant novel, set on a world almost entirely covered with water, Moth, a preternaturally gifted young woman, defies her priestly vows for love. She quickly finds herself pregnant by her clandestine lover and the pawn of political...
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Holly Phillips. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-60701-356-3
“She knows what to do with shadows,” Peter S. Beagle writes with perfect accuracy in his introduction to this moody, haunting collection from fantasist Phillips (The Burning Girl). “Gin” and “Country Mothers’ Sons” depict families with dangerous...
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