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Jim Tomlinson

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The United States

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Jim Tomlinson grew up in a small northern Illinois town and lived for many years in a small New England town. He lives now in rural Kentucky with his wife, fiber artist Gin Petty. His fiction and poetry have been published in The Pinch, Shenandoah, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere.

Jim's debut short story collection, Things Kept, Things Left Behind, won the 2006 Iowa Short Fiction Award. His short story, "First Husband, First Wife" was published in Five Points and recently anthologized in New Stories from the South, 2008.

A second book of stories, Nothing Like An Ocean, is just out, published by University Press of Kentucky.

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Average rating: 4.43 · 101 ratings · 29 reviews · 14 distinct works · Similar authors

	Things Kept, Things Left Behind 4.46 of 5 stars 4.46 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2006	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nothing Like an Ocean: Stories 4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seven Days in December 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2002	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Decline of Jute, The: Managing Industrial Change by Jim Tomlinson (Goodreads Author), Carlo Morelli 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Public Policy and the Economy Since 1900 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Government and the Enterprise Since 1900: The Changing Problem of Efficiency 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Problems of British Economic Policy, 1870-1945 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	British Macroeconomic Policy Since 1940 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Decline of Jute: Managing Industrial Change 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Economic Policy 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Jim rated a book 4 of 5 stars The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 by Carl Hiaasen read in February, 2008	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Jim made a comment in the group Constant Reader — "Angel, His Rabbit, and Kyle McKell" by Jim Tomlinson topic "I haven't read "A Woman Lit By Fireflies," Barbara. Will look for it. I have read other fiction by Harrison, though, and greatly admire its realism an...more "
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