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in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States

May 25, 1983

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New from Liz Moore: The Unseen World. The New York Times calls it "fiercely intelligent," The Boston Globe calls it a "captivating new page-turner," and The Washington Post calls it "a cerebral, page-turning thriller" that is "an elegant and ethereal novel about identity and the dawn of artificial intelligence, and a convincing interior portrait of a young woman."

Liz Moore is the author of the novels THE WORDS OF EVERY SONG (Broadway Books, 2007), HEFT (W.W. Norton, 2012), and THE UNSEEN WORLD (W.W. Norton, 2016). A winner of the 2014 Rome Prize in Literature, she lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Holy Family University. ...more

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	The Unseen World 4.12 avg rating — 11,282 ratings — published 2016 — 19 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
	Heft 3.97 avg rating — 16,705 ratings — published 2012 — 27 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 Words of Every Song 3.50 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 2007 — 9 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
	Almanac 2013 (Rust Belt Rising, #1) by Linda Gallant (Editor), Mark Adams (Contributor) , Amanda Gallant (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2013	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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End-of-year thanks

Just a note to say:

Thank you, wonderful Goodreads community, for your support of The Unseen World and my other books as well. It's been so nice to hear from you and get to know some of you.

I hope you find some time to relax amidst the end-of-year chaos.

As for me: I'm hard at work on my next project, and I can't wait to share it soon.

Best wishes, Happy New Year, goodbye 2017.

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“I had ways of consoling myself. Yes, there was food but there was beyond food, this idea I had of an oversoul of loneliness. A connectedness among the world's lonely that I could turn to when I was very low. There was a delicious romance in being utterly alone, & I told myself I was nobler for it, & that there was a purpose to my solitude, O there must be.”
― Liz Moore

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“We talk for a very long time and I ask her if it gets easier and she says not really, just different. A different duller kind of hurt, the kind that doesn't surprise you anymore.
I ask what her parent were like when it happened and she says they have never been the same.”
― Liz Moore, Heft

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“But non sequiturs abounded in ELIXIR’s patter for years after its creation, and its syntax was often incomprehensible, and its deployment of idioms was almost always incorrect. Metaphors were lost on it. It could not comprehend analogies. Sensory descriptions, the use of figurative language to describe a particular aspect of human existence, were far beyond its ken. The interpretation of a poem or a passage of descriptive prose would have been too much to ask of it. These skills—the ability to understand and paraphrase Keats’s idea of beauty as truth, or argue against Schopenhauer’s idea that the human being is forever subject to her own base instinct to survive, or explain any one of Nabokov’s”
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1st Poll-- top 5 books move onto 2nd round.

The Woman in Cabin 10

by Ruth Ware

16 votes, 29.1%

The Girls

by Emma Cline

6 votes, 10.9%

The Couple Next Door

by Shari Lapena

6 votes, 10.9%

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond

4 votes, 7.3%

The Unseen World

by Liz Moore

4 votes, 7.3%

What Lies Between Us

by Nayomi Munaweera

4 votes, 7.3%

The Underground Railroad

by Colson Whitehead

4 votes, 7.3%

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

by J.D. Vance

4 votes, 7.3%

The Fire Child

by S.K. Tremayne

3 votes, 5.5%

The Girl In The Ice

by Robert Bryndza

3 votes, 5.5%

Dodgers

by Bill Beverly

1 vote, 1.8%

55 total votes

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