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Mary Robison

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January 14, 1949 in Washington, D.C., The United States

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Mary Robison is an American short story writer and novelist. She has published four collections of stories, and four novels, including her 2001 novel Why Did I Ever, winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. Her most recent novel, released in 2009, is One D.O.A., One on the Way. She has been categorized as a founding "minimalist" writer along with authors such as Amy Hempel, Frederick Barthelme, and Raymond Carver. In 2009, she won the Rea Award for the Short Story.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 976 ratings · 182 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Why Did I Ever 4.02 avg rating — 396 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	One D.O.A., One on the Way 3.33 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Tell Me 30 Stories 4.06 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Amateurs Guide to Night 3.98 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Oh! (Nonpareil Book, 50.) 4.00 avg rating — 43 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Subtraction 3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	Believe Them: Stories by Mary Robison, Mary Robinson 4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Days: Stories 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	My rating:
	My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro by Jeffrey Eugenides (Editor), Harold Brodkey, William Trevor 3.90 avg rating — 1,340 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	My rating:
	صدای سوم: گزیده‌داستان‌های نویسندگان نسل سوم آمریکا by Ann Beattie, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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“Something else that makes me angry is that I got too old to prostitute myself. I wasn't going to anyway but it was there, it was my Z plan.”
― Mary Robison, Why Did I Ever

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“You know, up until later on today, I never really knew how to drink.”
― Mary Robison, One D.O.A., One on the Way

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“He wanted to tell her, from the greater perspective he had, that to own only a little talent, like his, was an awful, plaguing thing; that being only a little special meant you expected too much, most of the time, and liked yourself too little. He wanted to assure her that she had missed nothing”
― Mary Robison

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