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Patricia Duncker

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in Kingston, Jamaica

June 29, 1951

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Patricia Duncker attended school in England and, after a period spent working in Germany, she read English at Newnham College, Cambridge.

She studied for a D.Phil. in English and German Romanticism at St Hugh's College, Oxford.

From 1993-2002, she taught Literature at the University of Aberystwyth, and from 2002-2006, has been Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, teaching the MA in Prose Fiction.

In January 2007, she moved to the University of Manchester where she is Professor of Modern Literature. ...more

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Average rating: 3.73 · 5,196 ratings · 591 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors

	Hallucinating Foucault 3.98 avg rating — 2,180 ratings — published 1996 — 39 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 Doctor 3.61 avg rating — 472 ratings — published 1999 — 22 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 Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge 2.88 avg rating — 334 ratings — published 2010 — 24 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
	Sophie and the Sibyl 3.39 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Miss Webster and Cherif 3.42 avg rating — 246 ratings — published 2007 — 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
	The Deadly Space Between 3.05 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 2002 — 21 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
	Seven Tales of Sex and Death 3.29 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2003 — 13 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
	Monsieur Shoushana's Lemon Trees by Patricia Duncker, Patricia Dunker 3.49 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1997 — 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
	Writing on the Wall: Selected Essays 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2002 — 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
	In and Out of Time: Lesbian Feminist Fiction 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1990	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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“The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.”
― Patricia Duncker, Hallucinating Foucault

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“All writers are, somewhere or other, mad. Not les grands fous, like Rimbaud, but mad, yes, mad. Because we do not believe in the stability of reality. We know that it can fragment, like a sheet of glass or a car's windscreen. but we also know that reality can be invented, reordered, constructed, remade. Writing is, in itself, an act of violence perpetrated against reality.”
― Patricia Duncker, Hallucinating Foucault

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“You can say anything, anything, if it is beautifully said.”
― Patricia Duncker, Hallucinating Foucault

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Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian Romance by Patricia Duncker

7 votes, 35.0%

The Orenda by Joseph Boyden

5 votes, 25.0%

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

4 votes, 20.0%

Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski

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A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

1 vote, 5.0%

The Water Theatre by Lindsay Clarke

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