Brendan Short

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Brendan Short


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Brendan Short's debut novel, Dream City, was published by MacAdam/Cage in November 2008. The novel has been called "powerful" (Chicago Magazine), "accomplished" (Austin American-Statesman), "complex" (San Francisco Chronicle) and "an impressively mature first effort...Highly recommended" (Library Journal). According to Rod Lott at the Oklahoma Gazette, "It's rare that a novel can affect and haunt the reader to a marked degree, but this one does."

Brendan is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, where he held a three-year fellowship in fiction and poetry. His stories and poems have appeared in several literary journals, including The Literary Review and River Styx,
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Average rating: 3.41 · 93 ratings · 20 reviews · 1 distinct work
Dream City

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