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Joe Coomer

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born

November 03, 1958 in Fort Worth, Texas, The United States

gender

male

website

http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Joe-Coomer/...

genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Crafts & Hobbies

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Joe Coomer is a fiction and nonfiction writer who lives outside of Fort Worth, Texas, and on the coast of Maine. He "spends his winters in Springtown, Texas, where he runs a pair of large antique malls. He lives in a fairly new Victorian house that he spent a year and a half building in the late eighties, a project he wrote about in Dream House [1991]. His wife, Isabelle Tokumaru, runs her paintings conservation practice in the third story, while he writes novels in the kitchen, where the food is close. Summers, they live in Stonington, Maine, an active fishing village on the coast. When the weather's nice, he takes his old motor sailer, "Yonder", on day sails and cruises down east. He chronicled her purchase, restoration, and his stupiditi...more

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Books by Joe Coomer

Average rating: 3.92 · 1,290 ratings · 264 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Pocketful of Names 4.04 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God 3.92 avg rating — 290 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Loop 3.81 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 1992 — 12 editions	My rating:
	One Vacant Chair 3.87 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Apologizing to Dogs 3.78 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Sailing in a Spoonful of Water 3.85 avg rating — 47 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Decatur Road 3.81 avg rating — 26 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Flatland Fable 4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Kentucky Love 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dream House: On Building a House by a Pond 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Joe Coomer

“I’ve come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I’m always at a loss for words.”
― Joe Coomer, Sailing in a Spoonful of Water

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“Could we possibly be from the place we want to be? Were we from the place we died rather than the place we were born? Are our aspirations our home? Maybe we are from that place to which we're bound, and that's why desire hurts so much, this longing to find a place to rest, to get home. We're not from the past, but the future.”
― Joe Coomer, One Vacant Chair

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“Are we defined by where we want to go or where we've been?”
― Joe Coomer

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Vote for May's Graywolf Press Book Club selection! We're doing a quick vote this time around, so you have just this weekend to vote!
The group's decision will be announced on Monday, May 17th, and discussion questions will be posted on Friday, June 18th.

I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett

8 votes 38.1%

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

6 votes 28.6%

Castle by J. Robert Lennon

5 votes 23.8%

Pocketful of Names by Joe Coomer

2 votes 9.5%

21 total votes

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