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Christopher R. Beha
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What Happened to Sophie Wilder
— published 2012 — 4 editions |
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The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else
— published 2009 — 4 editions |
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The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction
by Joyce Carol Oates , Christopher R. Beha (Goodreads Author) , T.C. Boyle — published 2008 |
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| Just re-read this for the Harvard Classics Fiction Shelf and was remind how nearly perfect it is. I'd put Austen beside George Eliot, Henry James and James Joyce as my favorite novelists in the English language, and Pride and Prejudice is her best bo...more | |||||||||||
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| Neither as good nor as strange as Tristram Shandy, but entertaining and a fine introduction to Sterne's inimitable voice. | |||||||||||
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| This is a wonderful book. Laugh-out-loud funny, but also earnest and humane. It partakes of what James Wood calls the "comedy of forgiveness." That is, despite its satirical intentions, it is generous in the treatment of its characters. | |||||||||||
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| A wonderful collection, though it tends to emphasize the "Borges of Suburbia" aspect of Millhauser's work, rather than the "Kafka of Connecticut." He's at his very best when his grand artistic metaphors -- the impossible architectures -- are connecte...more | |||||||||||
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“There was something beautiful and timeless to her about a hardback without its jacket, a book that could be known in no way except by reading it.”
― Christopher R. Beha, What Happened to Sophie Wilder
― Christopher R. Beha, What Happened to Sophie Wilder
“In truth we were quickly reaching--had likely enough already reached--the age where it no longer made sense to talk about "promise." It was around this time that I remarked to Max that no matter what we now achieved no one would say, "He's so young." Precocity had passed us by.
"After twenty-eight," I sad sadly, "you're judged on your merits."
"Unless one of us dies," Max corrected me. "Then they'll all say, 'He was so young.”
― Christopher R. Beha, What Happened to Sophie Wilder
"After twenty-eight," I sad sadly, "you're judged on your merits."
"Unless one of us dies," Max corrected me. "Then they'll all say, 'He was so young.”
― Christopher R. Beha, What Happened to Sophie Wilder
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