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Diane Hammond

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born

Queens, NY, The United States

gender

female

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http://www.dianehammond.com/

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Literature & Fiction

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I'm 53, and it's hard to believe that anyone could possibly care about where I was born, but for the sake of due diligence, it was in Queens, NY. I grew up in Upper Nyack, a suburb of New York City, without a lot of drama, and the most important thing I learned in my four years at Middlebury College in Vermont was that I could write in James Joyce's stream-of-consciousness style fluently and for long periods of time without breaking a sweat. That was also the very first time I dabbled in fiction, though I wasn't aware of it at the time, only that I was having fun.

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Average rating: 3.88 · 1,466 ratings · 433 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Hannah's Dream 4.03 avg rating — 1,171 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Going to Bend: A Novel 3.25 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Seeing Stars: A Novel 3.21 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Homesick Creek: A Novel 3.52 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Keiko's Story: The Real-Life Tale of the World's Most Famous Killer Whale 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1998	My rating:

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“You help yourself to a hug whenever you want one, sugar. They're warm, and they're free.”
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“They also learned that not everything broken could be fixed, and that not everything ruined could be thrown away. Sometimes the damaged things were all you had to work with.”
― Diane Hammond, Hannah's Dream

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“Why did we divorce? I guess you could say we had trouble synchronizing. You know that carnival ride where two cages swing in opposite directions, going higher and higher until they go over the top? That was us. We passed each other all the time, but we never actually stopped in the same place until it was time to get off the ride.”
― Diane Hammond, Hannah's Dream

tags: deep-metaphorical-meaning , divorce , imagery , true-artistry

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