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Joan Silber


Born
The United States
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Genre
Fiction


Joan Silber is the author of nine books of fiction. Her book Improvement was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and was listed as one of the year's best books by The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday, The Seattle Times, and Kirkus Reviews. She lives in New York and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program. Keep up with Joan at joansilber.net. ...more

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Average rating: 3.6 · 13,941 ratings · 2,053 reviews · 28 distinct works • Similar authors
Improvement
3.52 avg rating — 6,004 ratings — published 2017 — 20 editions
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Secrets of Happiness
3.47 avg rating — 3,182 ratings — published 2021 — 13 editions
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Fools
3.74 avg rating — 933 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions
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Ideas of Heaven
3.91 avg rating — 758 ratings — published 2005 — 15 editions
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The Art of Time in Fiction:...
3.89 avg rating — 689 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
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The Size of the World
3.72 avg rating — 464 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions
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Household Words
3.59 avg rating — 379 ratings — published 1980 — 7 editions
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Lucky Us
3.60 avg rating — 311 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions
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In My Other Life
3.59 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions
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In the City
3.68 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions
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“A story is already over before we hear it. That is how the teller knows what it means.”
― Joan Silber, The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes
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“If you saw through everything, it made it hard to figure out what to do with yourself.”
― Joan Silber, Fools: Stories
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“This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.”
― Joan Silber, The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes
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