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Chris Adrian

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Chris Adrian was born in Washington, D.C. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is currently a medical student in Virginia. Part of this novel first appeared in The New Yorker under the title “Every Night for a Thousand Years” and was subsequently collected in Best American Short Stories 1998. His fiction has also appeared in The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, and Story.

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Gob's Grief
A Novel
Written by Chris Adrian

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 12, 2002
Price: $16.95

Chris Adrian’s richly imagined debut novel of the Civil War and the painful years following does what great fiction should: it offers up a world and populates it with characters who breath on the page.

When young Gob Woodull’s twin Tomo is killed in his very first battle, Gob’s guilt and grief... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Gob's Grief
A Novel
Written by Chris Adrian

Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 20, 2003
Price: $13.99

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