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The Boatmaker
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As an undergraduate at Swarthmore College, John Benditt studied with Adrienne Rich and was awarded the John Russell Hayes Poetry Prize by Robert Creeley. Over time the emphasis of his writing shifted from poetry to prose-poetry and then to fiction. His journalistic career began at the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" and "Philadelphia Evening Bulletin." As an editor at "Scientific American," he was responsible for conceiving and editing the magazine's 1988 single-topic issue on AIDS. He lives in New York City.

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"[P]owerful first novel...no matter how unexpected the course of events, each plot twist seems somehow preordained. His sentences accumulate with a calm and unmistakable authority, as if all this has happened before and is just now coming to light." --The New York Times Book Review "well crafted debut...spellbinding" --Publishers Weekly "With a political slant and an understanding of religion's effect on communities, The Boatmaker will appeal to fans of literary novels of self-discovery." --Foreword "The Boatmaker is already one of our favorite books of the year: a true odyssey about one man's complicated journey away from his native island." --Time Out New York "Benditt's timely and haunting first novel has the profound impact of a parable." --BBC "John Benditt's debut novel is wholly original. Beautifully written in language as straightforward as that of a parable, The Boatmaker is a complex modern fable about innocence, discovery, loss, and redemption. Its protagonist, an Everyman who is discontent yet uncorrupted, takes us on a journey through cynicism, despair, violence, wonder, and prejudice only to lead us back to a place where we know who we are and why we have reason to dream." --Rachel Urquhart, author of The Visionist "The Boatmaker is a wonderful novel--wonderful as in spectacularly good and wonderful as in full of wonders. There are echoes of our own time and of older times; it is set in a very intelligently imagined country, a mirror of our Western world and its evils and virtues rather than a fantasy land." --John Casey, National Book Award-winning author of Spartina "John Benditt's The Boatmaker is made of primal stuff: stone and sea, blood and snow, dreams of wolves and men like bears. This is a novel that will anchor you firmly to the earth, close enough to the pulse of the world that you might hear its drumbeat echo on every page." --Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods "At once a tour de force and a strangely mesmerizing parable, this is a book that you will not put down even when you have finished reading it." --Pam Cady, University of Washington Book Store

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