Glen David Gold





Glen David Gold

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January 01, 1964

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Glen David Gold is best known as the author of Carter Beats the Devil (Hyperion, 2001), a fictionalized biography of Charles Joseph Carter (1874-1936), an American illusionist performing from c.1900-1936. He writes in a narrative style, and the book was hailed as a very respectable venture into historical fiction. Gold is married to Alice Sebold, the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky. The couple lives in San Francisco, California. His next novel, Sunnyside, is due for publication in May 12th, 2009. His short stories, including "The Tears of Squonk," have appeared in a number of issues of McSweeney's.

Gold wrote a single episode of the cartoon show Hey Arnold, in which title character Arnold stages an amateur magic show and "disappears" hi...more


Average rating: 3.88 · 10,125 ratings · 1,042 reviews · 8 distinct works · Similar authors
Carter Beats the Devil
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 6,488 ratings — published 2001 — 24 editions
Sunnyside
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 789 ratings — published 2009 — 16 editions
Carter engaña al Diablo
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2001
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“There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.”
Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil

“In his youth, [he] had believed everything was possible. Then in grief, he believed everything was impossible. And now. . . he felt that when you had lived enough of your life, there was no difference between the two.”
Glen David Gold

“He felt people were never intentionally beastly or malicious, but they were pompous and foolish; awful decisions were made by men divorced from their own humanity.”
Glen David Gold, Sunnyside



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