Dan Chaon



 

Dan Chaon

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avg rating: 3.77 | 904 ratings | 8 distinct works
You Remind Me of Me You Remind Me of Me (Hardcover)
by Dan Chaon
avg rating 3.55 — 398 ratings — published 2004
7 editions
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Among the Missing Among the Missing (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Dan Chaon
avg rating 4.17 — 243 ratings — published 2002
3 editions
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Fitting Ends Fitting Ends (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Dan Chaon
avg rating 3.88 — 57 ratings — published 2003
3 editions
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Le livre de jonas Le livre de jonas (Paperback)
by Dan Chaon
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2006
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Damit du an mich denkst. Damit du an mich denkst. (Paperback)
by Dan Chaon
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2003
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Chaos Krankenhaus. Chaos Krankenhaus. (Paperback)
by Dan Chaon
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Chaos und Ordnung. Chaos und Ordnung. (Perfect Paperback)
by Dan Chaon
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 1996
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Parmi les disparus Parmi les disparus (Paperback)
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upcoming events

event: Dan Chaon on tour for book "You Remind Me of Me: A Novel"
date: November 03, 2008 07:00PM
location: Salem College Fine Arts Center, 601 S. Church Street, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
description: A Fiction Reading
Shirley Recital Hall
Dan Chaon's books include the bestselling novel You Remind Me of Me, and two collections of short stories, Fitting Ends and Among the Missing, which was finalist for the 2001 National Book Award.


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quotes by Dan Chaon

"I have to admit that most of the time I read in the same way that I smoke and chew gum and jiggle my leg a lot. I read a lot, but at the same time I’m not a particularly good or diligent or discriminating reader. I go through maybe close to a thousand or more books a year, but a lot of times I’ll only read bits and pieces of any one individual text. There are even certain works that are very important to me (Like Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, for example) that I probably haven’t ever read all the way through from beginning to end, just certain passages over and over. I tend to read at stuff, rather that through it, if that makes any sense, and maybe there’s something a little bit rodent-like about it, like a gerbil gnawing on woodchips in those, tiny, rapid obsessive bites."
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"Sometimes he thinks that if he could only trace the path of his life carefully enough, everything would become clear. The ways that he screwed up would make sense. He closes his eyes tightly. His life wasn't always a mistake, he thinks, and he breathes uncertainly for awhile, trying to find a pathway into unconsciousness, into sleep. "
Dan Chaon (You Remind Me of Me)
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"You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort of bottom, but I'm here to tell you: There is no bottom. "
Dan Chaon (Among the Missing)
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