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Gary Power

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Born

Cork, Ireland

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Historical Fiction, Fiction, Graphic Novels

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Tom Wolfe, Thomas Berger, Mark Twain, James Dickey, Winston Groom, Ric ...more

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"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” Franz Kafka

Gary Francis Power was born in Ireland in August 1971. He grew up in Dublin and now lives in Galway. He has lived and worked throughout the USA and Latin America. Fastest Draw, his first novel, is a Western/Deep South adventure with a Southern Gothic sensibility. The screenplay for Fastest Draw was recommended for the short list of the Dublin International Film festival, DIFF.

An early draft of the novel came fifth in the 2013 American Gems Literary Contest. Fastest Draw is illustrated with a map, and eighteen drawings by the author.

Praise for the Screenplay from DIFF: A joy to read, funny, original, vivid in its character, story and its sense of place and time.

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Gary’s Quotes

“Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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“Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

tags: grotesque, southern-writing

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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

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