Phyllis Raphael

They Got What They Wanted

Phyllis Raphael describes the disintegration of a New York marriage fortified with all the chic labels of the past decade... This is a new novel cum textbook, like Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays, which appears to be the contemporary woman novelist's forte, describing the feminine growing and killing pains associated with a marriage break up. An excellent new novel... Brilliant.
--Susan Braudy, The Village Voice


Selected Works

Memoir
Off The King's Road - Lost and Found in London, Otherpress, 2007
Savvy... Vibrant... An elegant memoir of a swinging time.
--Kirkus Reviews
Novel
They Got What They Wanted, W.W. Norton, Popular Library
Surprising...fluent...Goes at 90 miles an hour. ...
--The New York Times
Stories and Essays
Beating the Love Affair Rap and Other Tales From the Village Voice, Orca Press, 1983
...desperate urban comedy, grounded in that fiery furnace, the human heart...
--Seymour Krim

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