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Charles Blackstone

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in New York, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Cooking, Food & Wine, Romance

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Charles Blackstone is the author of Vintage Attraction, an acclaimed novel about wine, pugs, and the cult of personality. He is also the author of The Week You Weren't Here, a novel, and the co-editor of the anthology The Art of Friction. His recent prose and criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in Joyland, Oldster, and Fiction Writers Review. He lives in New York City. ...more

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	Vintage Attraction liked it 3.00 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2013 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Week You Weren't Here 3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Friction: Where (Non)Fictions Come Together by Charles Blackstone (Goodreads Author), Jill Talbot (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Columbus in Chains: A Prize Poem Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, July 5, 1848 it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	A sermon preached before the Oxford University volunteers, at the presentation of their colours by the Right Hon. the Countess Harcourt, on Thursday, July 5, 1798. By the Rev. C. Blackstone, ... 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Charles liked George Lerner's review of Vintage Attraction: "Blackstone, in a whirlwind of mismatched lovers, captures something essential and true in Izzy and Hapworth, their ambivalence, their doubts about career and marriage, their sense of frenzied disarray. All of their uncertainty winds itself into a cle" Read more of this review »
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Charles liked TB's review of Vintage Attraction: "I bought a restaurant. Some time ago. When I was sixteen, I managed two bars and room service. I try not to remember that. Maybe it never happened and just play the autistic card. It was a lot of crackerjack for a kid. I take too many risks. Especial" Read more of this review »
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