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    Three Delays: A Novel

    By Charlie Smith

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    “Mind-blowing… This isn’t Smith’s first tale of toxic and nihilistic obsession, but it is his most ravishing, painfully funny, and wildly mythic.” — Booklist (starred review)

    “Smith is not only a spectacular stylist but also a visionary.” —Washington Post Book World

    From Charlie Smith (Cheap Ticket to Heaven, Chimney Rock, Shine Hawk), author of three New York Times Notable Books and a literary stylist whose “writing can make the mountains ring" (New York Times Book Review), comes his first novel in more than a decade, Three Delays, which follows the troubled lives of two lovers as they combat their passions and each other. In the words of James Dickey, "Writers after Charlie Smith will have to take him into account, but I doubt if any will equal or surpass him."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 18, 2010
    ISBN9780061992605
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    Three Delays: A Novel
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    Charlie Smith

    Charlie Smith is the author of eight novels and eight books of poetry. He has won numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, including the Aga Khan Prize, the Levinson Prize, the J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and the New York Times. Five of his books have been named as New York Times Notable Books of the Year or as Editors’ Choices. He lives in New York City.

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      The detail that the author puts into this story will put you right inside the mind of the narrator as though you are the main character experiencing every downfall and emotion right with him. A unique twist on the classic romance novel, this story portrays a realistic and anything-but-perfect relationship between two people as they learn and grow together and apart.