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David Ebershoff

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Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Gay and Lesbian

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David Ebershoff is the author of four books, including The Danish Girl, which was adapted into an Oscar-winning film, and the #1 bestseller The 19th Wife, which was adapted for television. In 2017 the New York Times named The Danish Girl one of the 25 books that have shaped LGBTQ literature in the past twenty years. David is Vice President and Executive Editor at Hogarth Books and Random House, where he edits a wide-range of prize-winning and bestselling authors of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

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	Сын повелителя сирот by Adam Johnson, Адам Джонсон, David Ebershoff (Goodreads Author) (Interview) 4.07 avg rating — 105,839 ratings — published 2012 — 74 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 19th Wife 3.65 avg rating — 61,248 ratings — published 2008 — 54 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 Danish Girl 3.76 avg rating — 25,233 ratings — published 2000 — 4 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
	Pasadena 3.43 avg rating — 925 ratings — published 2002 — 25 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
	Lit Riffs by Matthew Miele (Editor), Heidi Julavitz, Tanker Dane (Contributor) 3.32 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 2004 — 13 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 Brown Reader: 50 Writers Remember College Hill by Judy Sternlight (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Judy Sternlight (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Donald Antrim 3.84 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2014 — 4 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 Rose City: Stories 3.58 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2001 — 8 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
	Literary Pasadena: The Fiction Edition by Patty O'Sullivan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michelle Huneven (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Jervey Tervalon (Contributor) 3.97 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	The Danish Girl 3.86 avg rating — 7 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 Grand Scheme 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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David Ebershoff and 1 other person liked Ellie Moon's review of Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming: "Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for providing me with an ARC of this book. All opinions are my own. A breathtaking memoir written by a former political prisoner in Egypt, “Huna” is so much more than just that. An elegy to the human experience," Read more of this review »
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David Ebershoff and 1 other person liked Cheri Rich's review of Public Access Afterworld: "I literally spent the last 5% of this book with goosebumps and was crying by the last 3%. This book wrecked me in the best possible way and I know the longer I sit with that, the more I'm going to love it."
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David Ebershoff liked Sarah Fried's review of Public Access Afterworld: "“Who’s the only person who can scream ‘fire’ in a crowded movie theater without anybody leaving or even feeling afraid?” The narrator paused, then answered his own riddle. “The person on the screen,” he said."
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David Ebershoff rated a book it was amazing I Was a First Alto in the 1980s: Poems by Deborah Garrison	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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David Ebershoff rated a book it was amazing The Secret Inquisition: The Untold Story of Mussolini, the Vatican, and Fascist Italy's War on the Jews by David I. Kertzer	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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“Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.”
― David Ebershoff, The 19th Wife

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“Einar felt lonely, and he wondered if anybody in the world would ever know him.”
― David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl

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“I know someone loves me from how they say my name. Like with my mom and dad, when they say "Benjamin" it's like my name is safe in their mouth.”
― david ebershoff

tags: love

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July BOTM~ Historical Fiction Theme 1st Poll!!!

Top 5 books will move onto the 2nd poll!!

The Nightingale

by Kristin Hannah

27 votes, 40.9%

The Sandcastle Girls

by Chris Bohjalian

8 votes, 12.1%

The 19th Wife

by David Ebershoff

6 votes, 9.1%

The Girl Who Came Home

by Hazel Gaynor

6 votes, 9.1%

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

5 votes, 7.6%

Caleb's Crossing

by Geraldine Brooks

4 votes, 6.1%

The Orenda

by Joseph Boyden

3 votes, 4.5%

Last Night at the Blue Angel: A Novel

by Rebecca Rotert

3 votes, 4.5%

Island Beneath the Sea

by Isabel Allende

2 votes, 3.0%

The Rent Collector

by Camron Wright

2 votes, 3.0%

66 total votes

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“A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water

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“One can become so sentimental about a person's absence, but it's impossible to be consistently sentimental in his presence - when you're confronted with the quotidian selfishness and silence that, I'm given to understand, comprise most of a life. But we were just so new.”
― Jennifer Dubois, A Partial History of Lost Causes

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“But all that talk. All those confidences. He shuddered to think about it. At the time, though, he didn't know any better, and he was filled the gleeful lurching and teeth-chattering panic of early and undiagnosed love.”
― Jennifer Dubois, A Partial History of Lost Causes

tags: love

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“I will admit it sometimes felt strange to me to make the confession to someone and later catch them laughing, or flirting, or eating a sandwich, instead of tearing at the injustice of it all or sitting quietly at the center of a grand and monstrous grief. The disaster of my life might be only the worst thing another person heard that afternoon; they might have forgotten by dinnertime; they might have been more heartbroken by watching certain movies.”
― Jennifer Dubois, A Partial History of Lost Causes

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