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Max Porter

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High Wycombe, The United Kingdom

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https://www.faber.co.uk/tutors/max-porter/

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Max Porter’s first novel, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers won the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Europese Literatuurprijs and the BAMB Readers’ Award and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. It has been sold in twenty-nine territories. Complicité and Wayward’s production of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers directed by Enda Walsh and starring Cillian Murphy opened in Dublin in March 2018. Max lives in Bath with his family.

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Average rating: 3.89 · 64,890 ratings · 9,009 reviews · 30 distinct works • Similar authors

	Grief is the Thing with Feathers 3.84 avg rating — 36,698 ratings — published 2015 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lanny 4.06 avg rating — 24,320 ratings — published 2019 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Death of Francis Bacon 3.15 avg rating — 2,137 ratings — published 2021 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shy 3.86 avg rating — 1,513 ratings — published 2023 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grief is the Thing with Feathers / On Grief and Grieving / Mindset / The Art of Happiness 10th Anniversary Edition by Max Porter, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 51 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Lick of Night: Excerpted from Grief is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter, Jesse Ball (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It's Going to Be a Bright New Day: Would You Rather with Bonnie Prince Billy (Rough Trade Editions, #35) 3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grief is the Thing with Feathers / Lanny by Max Porter 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Death of Francis Bacon / Grief Is the Thing with Feathers / Lanny by Max Porter 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Mort de Francis Bacon by Max Porter, Charles Recoursé (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Moving on, as a concept, is for stupid people, because any sensible person knows grief is a long-term project. I refuse to rush. The pain that is thrust upon us let no man slow or speed or fix.”
― Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers

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“I remember being scared that something must, surely, go wrong, if we were this happy, her and me, in the early days, when our love was settling into the shape of our lives like cake mixture reaching the corners of the tin as it swells and bakes.”
― Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers

tags: anxiety, grief, hope, love, superstition

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“Ghosts do not haunt, they regress. Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of trees or lawns, you are taking instant symbolic refuge in a ready-made iconography of early safety and satisfaction. That exact place is where ghosts go.”
― Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers

tags: ghost, place, refuge, sleep

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What will be our January 2021 Open Pick?

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The poll will end at 11:59 pm on November 30th. The discussion will start on January 1st.

Golden Hill by Francis Spufford

8 votes, 38.1%

Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

7 votes, 33.3%

The Heaven of Mercury by Brad Watson

3 votes, 14.3%

The Secret River by Kate Grenville

2 votes, 9.5%

Grace Williams Says It Loud by Emma Henderson

1 vote, 4.8%

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