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David Giffels

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Akron, Ohio, The United States

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Memoir, Nonfiction, Biography

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"Barnstorming Ohio" author David Giffels has written six books of nonfiction, including the critically acclaimed memoir, "Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life," published by Scribner in 2018. The book has been hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “tender, witty and ... painstakingly and subtly wrought,” and by Kirkus Reviews as “a heartfelt memoir about the connection between a father and son.” It was a Book of the Month pick by Amazon and Powell’s and a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice.”

His previous books include "The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches From the Rust Belt" (Scribner 2014), a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” and nominee for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 2,453 ratings · 465 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House 4.08 avg rating — 1,043 ratings — published 2008 — 12 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 Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt 3.95 avg rating — 498 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life 4.23 avg rating — 419 ratings — 10 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
	Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America 4.04 avg rating — 270 ratings — 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
	Are We Not Men? We Are Devo! by Jade Dellinger, David Giffels (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2003 — 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
	We Are Devo!: Are We Not Men? by Jade Dellinger, David Giffels (Goodreads Author), Jeff E. Winner (Editor) 4.23 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2007 — 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
	Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron by David Giffels (Goodreads Author), Steve Love liked it 3.00 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
	Unti Giffels 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015	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
	Like Brothers 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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“A lifetime, one might say, of loss, but we here recognize something much different, more nuanced, more full of shadows. A lifetime of hope. And anyone who's done both - hoped and lost - knows that in many ways, hoping is worse....As I grew into early adulthood and observed a larger pattern of hope and loss and hope and loss and hope and loss, and the concurrent resilience thereof, I came to a begrudging conclusion: neither of these things - hope and loss - can exist without the other, and yet at every turn it is necessary to believe that at some point one will ultimately conquer. And that will be our legacy.”
― David Giffels, The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt

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“Poetry acknowledges that life is much more complicated than anything we can say about it, and especially anything politics can say about it.”
― David Giffels, Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America

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“Why does the nation turn to Ohio every four years to understand itself? Because all our struggles and all our scars and all our little bandstands and diners and neat little lawns have withstood fortunes and failures and promises and lies, quietly proving Robert Frost’s three-word definition of life: it goes on.”
― David Giffels, Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America

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