Matthew Quick (aka Q) is the author of The Silver Linings Playbook (Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and three young adult novels, Sorta Like a Rock Star, Boy21, and Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock (Little, Brown & Co.). His work has received many honors--including a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention--been translated into many languages, and called "beautiful...first-rate" by The New York Times Book Review. The Weinstein Company and David O. Russell have adapted The Silver Linings Playbook into a film starring Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, and Jennifer Lawrence. Matthew lives in Massachusetts with his wife, novelist Alicia Bessette. His website is www.matthewquickwriter.com.
* "The answers here are satisfying but never simple...A story that,
like Finley, expresses a lot in relatively few words."--Kirkus,
starred review
"Beautiful...It is this depth that makes "Boy21" more than a
first-rate novel fueled by basketball; it's a first-rate work of
art."--The New York Time Book Review
"Every aspect of this multilayered novel harmonizes...excellently
set-up twists display Quick's mastery of pacing; authentic dialogue
and deft character development ensure both our emotional investment
in these richly complex boys and also our empathizing with their
main commonality--feeling like "you're not the person on the
outside that you are on the inside.""--The Horn Book
"His emotionally raw tale retains a delicate sense of hope and
optimism, making it a real gut punch of a read."--Publishers Weekly
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