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Matthew Quick


USA flag (b.1973)
Husband of Alicia Bessette

Matthew Quick earned his BA through La Salle University and his MFA through Goddard College. He lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife, novelist Alicia Bessette.
 


Genres: Literary Fiction, General Fiction, Young Adult Fiction
 
Novels
   The Silver Linings Play Book (2008)
   All Together Now! (2010)
     aka Sorta Like a Rockstar
   Boy21 (2012)
   Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock (2013)
   The Good Luck of Right Now (2014)
   Love May Fail (2015)
   Every Exquisite Thing (2016)
   The Reason You're Alive (2017)
   We Are the Light (2022)
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Award nominations
2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel (nominee) : Boy21
2009 PEN/Hemingway Award (nominee) : The Silver Linings Play Book


Matthew Quick recommends
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The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne (2024)
Ron Currie
"A furious page-turner that kept me up way past my bedtime, a beautiful hymn to the lingering ghosts of Maine's French-Canadian past, and a harrowing meditation on what it means to assimilate into the great American experiment. The authenticity reaches up off the page and grabs you with two hands. Ron Currie is a literary beast."
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Bunyan and Henry (2024)
Mark Cecil
"A hopeful Twainian nod to brotherhood that puts the fun in profundity, even as it remixes American myth to the most sobering beats of our modern times."
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Mercury (2024)
Amy Jo Burns
"Mercury shimmers with authenticity. Amy Jo Burns is a big-time talent whose beautiful and honest prose elevates love, even when plumbing the darker realities of family. Equal parts gripping page-turner and wise character study. Tears streamed down my face as I turned the last page. An instant favorite."

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