Jill McCorkle

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Five of Jill McCorkle's seven previous books have been named New York Times Notables. Winner of the New England Booksellers Award, the Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, and the North Carolina Award for Literature, she has taught writing at the University of North Carolina, Bennington College, Tufts University, and Harvard. She lives near Boston with her husband, their two children, several dogs, and a collection of toads.

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Books by Jill McCorkle

Average rating: 3.59 · 1,640 ratings · 227 reviews · 14 distinct works

	Going Away Shoes 3.45 avg rating — 322 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Ferris Beach 3.60 avg rating — 272 ratings — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Cheer Leader 3.69 avg rating — 204 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Carolina Moon 3.41 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Crash Diet: Stories 3.74 avg rating — 168 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Tending to Virginia 3.74 avg rating — 117 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	July 7th 3.65 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Creatures of Habit by Jill McCorkle, Anne Winslow (Designed by) 3.73 avg rating — 96 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Final Vinyl Days 3.51 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Creatures of Habit 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2001	My rating:

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“If a nuclear disaster occurred, and you had to live out those final painful days just stretched out somewhere thinking about your life--This is who I am. This is what I love. This is what I believe--who would you want hearing your whispers? Or perhaps better: Who do you trust to hear your whispers? Whose breath do you want mingled with your own? Whose flesh still warm beside you?”
― Jill McCorkle

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“We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes and minibikes. The grown-ups looked so silly framed in their living-room and kitchen windows. They complained about their days and sighed deep sighs of depression and loss. They talked about how spoiled and lucky children were these days. We will never be that way, we said, we will never say those things.”
― Jill McCorkle

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