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Pete Duval

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Fiction, Short Stories, Crime

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Herman Melville, Flannery O'Connor, Denis Johnson, Toni Morrison, Grah ...more

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Pete Duval is a fiction writer and photographer. His newest book is Night Work, a crime novel set in 1980s New Bedford, Massachusetts. His short story collection, Rear View (Houghton Mifflin), won the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Bakeless Prize, the Connecticut Book Award, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. A second collection, The Deposition, winner of the 2020 Juniper Prize for Fiction, was published by The University of Massachusetts Press in 2021. Other awards include Grain Magazine’s Short Grain fiction prize and Florida State University’s World’s Best Short-Short Story prize. Pete has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Collegeville Center for Ecumen ...more

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	Rear View by Pete Duval (Goodreads Author), Jay Parini (Introduction) 3.52 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2004 — 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
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	Strange Mercies (Working Titles Book 5) by Pete Duval (Goodreads Author), Steve Davenport (Introduction), Mark Powell (Goodreads Author) (Afterword) 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
	Permanent Drift: Walking In Olde Kensington (2012-16) by John Waller (Photographer), Pete Duval (Goodreads Author) (contributor) did not like it 1.00 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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“We are the first generations to grow up surrounded by evidence that our attempt to separate ourselves from ‘nature’ has been a grim failure, proof not of our genius but our hubris.”
― Paul Kingsnorth, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays

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Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.
--Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (In Praise of Shadows)

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