John Smolens





John Smolens

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According to Northern Michigan University's website, John Smolens "...has published five novels Cold, The Invisible World, Fire Point, Angel’s Head, and Winter by Degrees, and one collection of short stories (My One and Only Bomb Shelter.) Cold was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and the Detroit Free Press selected Fire Point as the best book by a Michigan author in 2004... His short stories and essays have appeared in various magazines and newspapers, including: the Virginia Quarterly, the William and Mary Review, the Massachusetts Review, Yankee, Redbook, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe. His work has been translated into Dutch, Greek, Italian, and Turkish, and has been published the United Kingdom...more


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The Schoolmaster's Daugther, which is set in Boston during the first year of the American Revolution, will be published this fall as the lead title by Pegasus Books, New York.Also, e-book edtions of my earlier novels (Cold, Fire Point, The Invisible World, and Winter by Degrees) are now available at Amazon.com. All books are "attractively priced" at $2.99, except John's first novel, which is 99
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Average rating: 3.32 · 493 ratings · 131 reviews · 14 distinct works · Similar authors
Cold: A Novel
3.23 of 5 stars 3.23 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions
The Anarchist: A Novel
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
Quarantine: A Novel
3.26 of 5 stars 3.26 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2012
The Schoolmaster's Daughter...
3.11 of 5 stars 3.11 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
Fire Point: A Novel of Susp...
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
The Invisible World: A Novel
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions
My One and Only Bomb Shelter
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000
Winter by Degrees
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings3 editions
Angel's Head
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
Fire Point
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004 — 2 editions
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