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Gerard Donovan

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born

January 01, 1959 in Wexforf, Ireland

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

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Gerard Donovan is an acclaimed English-born novelist, photographer and poet currently living in Plymouth, England, working as a lecturer at the University of Plymouth.

Donovan attracted immediate critical acclaim with his debut novel Schopenhauer's Telescope, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2003. His subsequent novels include Doctor Salt (2005), Julius Winsome (2006), and, most recently, Sunless (2007). However, Sunless is essentially a rewritten version of Doctor Salt -- ultimately very different from the earlier novel, but built upon the same basic narrative elements—of which Donovan has said: "Doctor Salt... was a first draft of Sunless. I wrote [Doctor Salt] too fast, and the sense I was after just wasn't in the novel....more

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Books by Gerard Donovan

Average rating: 3.68 · 473 ratings · 90 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Julius Winsome: A Novel 3.81 avg rating — 282 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Schopenhauer's Telescope: A Novel 3.68 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Young IrelandersStories: Stories 3.44 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Sunless 2.91 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Country of the Grand 2.86 avg rating — 7 ratings	My rating:
	The Lighthouse 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Kings and Bicycles 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Za irských nocí by Gerard Donovan, Alice McElveen Hyrmanová (Translator) 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Morgenschwimmerirische Geschichten by Gerard Donovan, Rudolf Hermstein (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Pays De Cocagne: Nouvelles ; Traduites De L'anglais Par Georges Michel Sarotte by Gerard Donovan, Georges-Michel Sarotte (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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Quotes by Gerard Donovan

“The only test, Baker, is how not to erase ourselves from the map. Our history is that things don't last. Every generation creates the right monsters to destroy itself.”
― Gerard Donovan, Schopenhauer's Telescope: A Novel

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“Outside I saw her sitting in the wheelchair, hands folded on her lap, and I knew I was living the moment that says nothing, that will allow nothing said of consequence.”
― Gerard Donovan, Young IrelandersStories: Stories

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“I saw the patterns of history and thought that a human might be eighty per cent chemicals, eighteen per cent his past, and two per cent feeling, creatures of habit. Which makes psychiatrists really pharmacists who have to listen longer.”
― Gerard Donovan, Schopenhauer's Telescope: A Novel

tags: human , psychiatrists