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Marisa Silver


USA flag (b.1960)

Marisa Silver is an American author, screenwriter and film director.

Silver was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, to Raphael Silver, a film director and producer, and Joan Micklin Silver, a director.


Genres: Literary Fiction, Fantasy
 
Novels
   No Direction Home (2005)
   The God of War (2008)
   Mary Coin (2013)
   Little Nothing (2016)
   The Mysteries (2021)
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Collections
   Babe in Paradise (2001)
   Alone with You (2010)
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Books containing stories by Marisa Silver
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Astoria to Zion (2014)
Twenty-six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone's First Decade
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The Best American Short Stories 2001 (2001)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Katrina Kenison and Barbara Kingsolver

Award nominations
2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : The God of War


Marisa Silver recommends
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Who You Might Be (2022)
Leigh N Gallagher
"I read Who You Might Be with my heart beating at a different register because I knew I was in the presence of a writer who knows how to match an acrobatic and singular use of language to the density of human complexity. Gallagher enlivens worlds and characters with an observational eye and ear tuned to frequencies most of us don't see and hear."
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Mouth to Mouth (2022)
Antoine Wilson
"The sinewy and mesmerizing narrative of Antoine Wilson's masterful novel aims straight at the heart of the mythologized self, which, like the world of art and commerce that provides the story's backdrop, trades in all forms of performance and deception. Not unlike the novel itself, which asks us to believe and doubt and then believe again within the space of a single sentence. Wilson's on a high wire and he never makes a wrong move."
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Zorrie (2021)
Laird Hunt
"With patience, precision and language so clear and generous, you feel as if you are being handed a precious and fragile truth, Laird Hunt brings us an indelible portrait of a twentieth century American woman. Zorrie travels through her years with a straightforward decency that nevertheless does not shield her from harm, heartbreak, yearning, and a hard-won recognition of joy. It takes Hunt only a hundred and fifty pages to take us from one end of Zorrie's life to the other, and yet I closed the book feeling that I had read an epic."

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