Jean Thompson

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The United States

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female

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http://www.jeanthompsononline.com/

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Literature & Fiction

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Jean Thompson is the author of the upcoming novel The Year We Left Home (Simon & Schuster), the acclaimed short fiction collections Do Not Deny Me (Simon & Schuster, 2009) and Throw Like a Girl (Simon & Schuster, 2007) as well as the novel City Boy; the short story collection Who Do You Love, a 1999 National Book Award finalist for fiction; and the novel Wide Blue Yonder, a New York Times Notable Book and Chicago Tribune Best Fiction selection for 2002.

Her short fiction has been published in many magazines and journals, including The New Yorker, and been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize. Jean's work has been praised by Elle Magazine as "bracing and wildly intelligent writing that explores the na...more

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Books by Jean Thompson

Average rating: 3.46 · 3,388 ratings · 827 reviews · 21 distinct works

	The Year We Left Home 3.44 avg rating — 2,081 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Throw Like A Girl: Stories 3.30 avg rating — 451 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Do Not Deny Me 3.56 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Who Do You Love: Stories 3.68 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Wide Blue Yonder: A Novel 3.55 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:
	City Boy: A Novel 3.32 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	GASOLINE WARS 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Brother of the Wolves by Jean Thompson, Steve Marchesi (Illustrator) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	My Wisdom 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1982	My rating:
	The House of Tomorrow 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1974	My rating:

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“She had a heart like a Twinkie, full of oversweet goo, yes, a real junk-food heart.”
― Jean Thompson, Who Do You Love: Stories

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“She'd permed her hair to within an inch of its life. When she moved her head, the mass of hair followed along behind her a split second later."

Perhaps you had to live through the late 70's, early 80's to appreciate this.”
― Jean Thompson, The Year We Left Home

tags: 1980s , humor

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“It was still very wet under the trees. A careless tug at a branch might flip cold rainbow-edged drops down your back. And the sky was gray as concrete. But they enjoyed the silence, the soft sucking ground matted with last year's needles.”
― Jean Thompson

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