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Augustus Rose

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Born

in San Francisco, CA

Website

http://augustusrose.me

Twitter

rrosedelay

Genre

Fiction, Suspense, Art

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May 2007

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Augustus Rose grew up in and around San Francisco, California. His debut novel, The Readymade Thief (Viking 2017), is about a young woman at the center of a mystery involving the art Marcel Duchamp, the dark net, urban exploration, and the shotgun marriage of alchemy and string theory. He teaches fiction writing at University of Chicago.

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Average rating: 3.33 · 2,425 ratings · 424 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Readymade Thief 3.33 avg rating — 2,403 ratings — published 2017 — 16 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
	Philadelphia Underground: Roman by Augustus Rose (Goodreads Author), Werner Löcher-Lawrence (Translator) 3.27 avg rating — 22 ratings — 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
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	Berkeley Fiction Review, Volume 16 by Daphne Young (Editor), Augustus Rose (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Lin Carlson (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 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

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“Was the universe just trying to fuck with her? The universe, she thought, could fuck itself.”
― Augustus Rose, The Readymade Thief

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“Was this what life was? Long periods of invisibility followed by short bursts of existence?”
― Augustus Rose, The Readymade Thief

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“With nowhere to go but inward, Lee burrowed. She tunneled inside herself a little more each day, without direction or even a sense of what was up or down; there was only inward.”
― Augustus Rose, The Readymade Thief

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