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    "A Study Guide for Jayne Anne Phillips's ""Black Tickets"""
    "A Study Guide for Jayne Anne Phillips's ""Black Tickets"""
    "A Study Guide for Jayne Anne Phillips's ""Black Tickets"""
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    "A Study Guide for Jayne Anne Phillips's ""Black Tickets"""

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    "A Study Guide for Jayne Anne Phillips's ""Black Tickets"", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateDec 13, 2018
    ISBN9780028666013
    "A Study Guide for Jayne Anne Phillips's ""Black Tickets"""

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      "A Study Guide for Jayne Anne Phillips's ""Black Tickets""" - Gale

      Short Stories for Students, Volume 48

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      A Study Guide for Jayne Anne Phillips’s Black Tickets

      Jayne Anne Phillips

      1979

      Introduction

      Black Tickets is a short story by Jayne Anne Phillips, published in 1979 as the title work of a collection of stories. Told in the first person, Black Tickets is a stream-of-consciousness meditation by a petty criminal in jail as he recalls his lover, Jamaica Delila, who may have double-crossed him. In the course of the narration he remembers his love for her, his abusive instincts and episodes, their history together dealing drugs,

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