Mary and O'Neil - by Justin Cronin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Unanimously praised on its hardcover publication, Justin Cronin's poignant debut traces the lives of Mary Olson and O'Neil Burke, two vulnerable young teachers who rediscover in each other a world alive with promise and hope.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>WINNER OF THE PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD - "An astonishingly good first novel . . . fully engaging from the first paragraph. What a gift: to be able to live alongside these people for a while."--Ann Patchett, <i>Chicago Tribune </i></b> <p/>Mary and O'Neil: They are like any other couple. They have survived loss and found love and managed the occasional hard-earned laugh as they move toward the future, hearts thick with hope. Each human life is ever changing, born of moments large and small--births and deaths and weddings, grave mistakes and chance encounters and acts of surprising courage--and in this unforgettable book, Justin Cronin makes vivid how those moments connect us all, making us more than we could ever be on our own. <p/>Alight with nuance, sly humor, and startling wisdom, <i>Mary and O'Neil</i> celebrates the uncommon grace to be found in common lives <p/><b>Praise for <i>Mary and O'Neil</i> </b> <p/>"Admirably fearless."<b>--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b> <p/>"The kind of storytelling that goes down easy, and sticks to your ribs."<b>--<i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i></b> <p/>"Cronin succeeds, touchingly and tenderly, in portraying life itself as a triumph of hope over experience."<b>--<i>The Boston Globe</i></b><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"An astonishingly good first novel . . . fully engaging from the first paragraph. What a gift: to be able to live alongside these people for a while."<b>--Ann Patchett, <i>Chicago Tribune </i></b> <p/> "A literary love story . . . about the fragility of good fortune and the accidental ways of finding happiness."<b>--<i>USA Today</i><br></b> <br> "Justin Cronin must have been a novelist in an earlier life. What else could account for the mature insight and the beautifully controlled technique we find in his debut novel? . . . Cronin succeeds, touchingly and tenderly, in portraying life itself as a triumph of hope over experience."<b>--<i>The Boston Globe<br></i></b> <br> "Justin Cronin's <i>Mary and O'Neil</i> is that rare thing: a wholly engrossing story of the ordinary life."<b>--Madison Smartt Bell, author of <i>All Souls' Rising</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Justin Cronin </b>is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and associate professor of English at La Salle University. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including <i>Epoch, Greensboro Review, </i> and <i>Crescent Review, </i> and in <i>The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine.</i> He lives with his wife and their young daughter in Philadelphia.
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