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Bob Shacochis

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September 09, 1951

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Bob Shacochis is an American fiction writer and literary journalist.
He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.

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Average rating: 3.63 · 3,411 ratings · 502 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Woman Who Lost Her Soul 3.54 avg rating — 2,025 ratings — published 2013 — 18 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
	Easy in the Islands 3.81 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 1985 — 17 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
	Swimming in the Volcano 3.67 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1993 — 15 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 Immaculate Invasion: A War Story with No War in It 3.71 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1999 — 11 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
	Domesticity: A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love 4.09 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1994 — 8 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
	Kingdoms in the Air: Dispatches from the Far Away 3.98 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2016 — 7 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 Next New World 3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1982 — 11 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
	Between Heaven & Hell: Trouble and Joy in a Lost Himalayan Paradise 3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2012 — 2 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
	La femme qui avait perdu son âme (Totem) by Bob Shacochis, François Happe (translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 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
	The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis, Robert Blumenfeld (Narrator) really liked it 4.00 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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“I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.”
― Bob Shacochis

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“He had come to understand that we choose the lies in which we participate and, in choosing, define ourselves and our actions for a very long time, perhaps forever”
― Bob Shacochis, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

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“Unhealthy to the point of diseased, he’d say—he had caught something from her, some decay transmitted from soul to soul, but then he recollected contemptuously that by her own admittance she lacked a soul. At the intersection ahead they could see”
― Bob Shacochis, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

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