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Home (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

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Phillips's only story in the Black Tickets collection with any degree of humor, “Home” was considered by many critics to be the best work in the book. In reference to “Home,” John Irving noted that Phillips “shows us the good instinct to tell stories in which something that matters takes place.”

What matters to Irving, then, is telling the story of the ordinary American family. “Home” has all the typical elements of one of three distinct story types appearing in Black Tickets. It is of conventional short-story length, and the plot depicts the...

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