Chris Adrian

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born

November 07, 1970 in Washington D.C., The United States

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male

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Literature & Fiction

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Ursula K. Le Guin, John Crowley, Marilynne Robinson

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Chris Adrian was born in Washington D.C. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he attended Harvard Divinity School, and is currently a pediatric fellow at UCSF. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009. In 2010, he was chosen as one of the 20 best writers under 40 by The New Yorker.

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Books by Chris Adrian

Average rating: 3.59 · 3,689 ratings · 923 reviews · 7 distinct works

	The Children's Hospital 3.59 avg rating — 1,692 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Great Night 3.16 avg rating — 419 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	My rating:
	A Better Angel 3.84 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Gob's Grief: A Novel 3.79 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	My rating:
	My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales by Kate Bernheimer (Editor), Gregory Maguire (Foreword), Joyelle McSweeney (Contributor) 3.59 avg rating — 892 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Sickness by Alberto Barrera Tyszka, Margaret Jull Costa, Chris Adrian (Introduction) 3.88 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Tin House: Evil (Volume 8 no. 3) by Francine Prose, Nick Flynn, Chris Adrian 3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2007	My rating:

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“If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.”
― Chris Adrian

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“But as surely as the moon rises and the sun sets, depravity passes down through the ages, because there is always a gap between who we are and who we should be, and our parents, molested by regret, conceive us under the false hope that we will be better than them, and everything they do, every hug and blow, only makes certain that we never will be.”
― Chris Adrian, The Children's Hospital

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“If I showed you what was in my heart," she said, "it would burn you to a cinder.

"I've tried to burn you similarly," it said, "but you never even noticed when I opened my chest.”
― Chris Adrian, The Great Night

tags: cinder , heart , puck , titania

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