Dexter Palmer





Dexter Palmer

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DEXTER PALMER lives in Princeton, New Jersey. He holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University, where he completed his dissertation on the work of James Joyce, William Gaddis, and Thomas Pynchon (and where he also staged the first academic conference ever held at an Ivy League university on the subject of video games).

Author photo credit to Bill Wadman.


Average rating: 3.43 · 686 ratings · 194 reviews · 2 distinct works
The Dream of Perpetual Motion
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 684 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions
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“Every story needs a voice to tell it though, or it goes unheard. So I have to try. I still have enough faith left in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own.”
Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion

“I want you to know that I'm just like you, and, just like you, sometimes I have a little trouble holding things together.”
Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion

“Other lives wind themselves into your own and then leave for distant places or wink out like extinguished lamps, and then all the evidence you have that there was ever any time is a few scribbled words and a few blurred pictures. Then those burn in fire or blow away in wind and you have nothing.”
Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion

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