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Jane Hamilton
Jane Hamilton is the author of The Book of Ruth, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction, and A Map of the World, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and named one of the top ten books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, the Miami Herald, and People. Both The... show more

Jane Hamilton is the author of The Book of Ruth, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction, and A Map of the World, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and named one of the top ten books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, the Miami Herald, and People. Both The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World have been selections of Oprah's Book Club. Her following work, The Short History of a Prince, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998, her novel Disobedience was published in 2000, and her last novel When Madeline Was Young was a Washington Post Best Book of 2006. She lives in and writes in an orchard farmhouse in Wisconsin.
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Birth date: July 13, 1957
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sarah
sarah rated it 9 years ago
I noticed this book on my shelf a few weeks ago and couldn't remember if I had read it or not, so I picked it up. I hadn't read it, and reading it now was one of those amazing reading experiences where one picks up the exact right book at the exact right time and it ring in one's head like a bell th...
Candlefox
Candlefox rated it 12 years ago
This book is just a hot mess. The title and description trick the reader into thinking that this is a story about an adult woman and her family coping after her brain injury, when it's more about well nothing really. Seinfeld was a show about nothing that admits it is a show about nothing. This b...
Mellkoh
Mellkoh rated it 12 years ago
When I read Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone, I had a really hard time believing that Wally was a man, as he'd really nailed down the woman's perspective. I'd be very curious to know if men felt the same way about Jane Hamilton's writing of Henry. It seemed so genuinely male to me!! As for the stor...
sarah
sarah rated it 12 years ago
I love Jane Hamilton, and this novel is masterful. It was very easy to read, and even when my interest in the story drooped, I kept going because it was so lovely to read. Hamilton is just so good.Like other readers, I had trouble connecting with Walter, the main character. His story, about ambition...
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Once in a while I pick up a piece of contemporary literary fiction, just to keep my hand in for the purposes of reader's advisory, or to see what's out there and confirm that I'd rather be reading Fantasy & Science Fiction. Almost inevitably, as was the case with Jane Hamilton's Laura Rider's Master...
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