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Tim Tharp

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Henryetta, Oklahoma

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Tim Tharp lives in Oklahoma where he writes novels and teaches in the Humanities Department at Rose State College. In addition to earning a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma and an M.F.A. from Brown University, Tim Tharp has been a factory hand, construction laborer, psychiatric aid, long-distance hitchhiker, and record store clerk. His first novel, Falling Dark (Milkweed Press), was awarded the Milkweed National Fiction Prize. Knights of the Hill Country (Knopf Books for Young Readers) is his first novel for young adults and was named to the American Library Association's Best Books of 2007 list. Tim's new YA novel, The Spectacular Now, (Knopf Books, Nov. 2008) was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award.

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Books by Tim Tharp

Average rating: 3.61 · 720 ratings · 241 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The Spectacular Now 3.53 avg rating — 441 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Knights of the Hill Country 3.82 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Badd 3.50 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Falling Dark: A Novel 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Tim Tharp

“It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.”
― Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now

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“That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.”
― Tim Tharp, Knights of the Hill Country

tags: exaggeration , legends , rewriting-history , truth

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“The thought does cross my mind that I could slip and end up cracking my head on the pavement just short of the pool, but if you're always going to worry about minor drawbacks, then you'll never accomplish anything.”
― Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now

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