Ron Currie is the author of the forethcoming The One-Eyed Man and the novels Everything Matters!, Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles and the short story collection God Is Dead, which was the winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. Currie received the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His books have been translated into fifteen languages. He lives in Portland, Maine.
"Currie's strength rests in his ability to focus on humanity's
conundrums on the smallest physical particles. The truth he
presents is that the world has become adsurd; he is merely
delivering a steady-cam view."
--Los Angeles Times
"[A] cavalierly abitious debut . . . with talking dogs, text
message-happy teenagers, and end-of-day shenanigans. Like Kurt
Vonnegut, [Currie] seems to understand that in the face of grim and
grave concerns, humor is a more powerful salt than screed."
--John Freeman, San Francisco Chronicle
"Few authors would dare to depict the near rape and death of God
amid a horrendous genocidal war, and fewer still could make it so
bladder-threateningly hilarious. Although there's genuine sadness
throughout, God is Dead is very likely the most entertaining book
ever written on the subject of deicide."
--The Believer
"God is Dead is a heady cocktail of ideas. Broad-stroke symbolism
and delicately shaded realism are swished together with admirable
aplomb. Currie's skills are equal to just about any technical
challenge. [His] stoic poignancy [is] reminiscent of Raymond
Carver. . . . The naturalistic texture of Currie's prose gives
everything a scary ring of truth."
--Michel Faber, The Guardian (London)
"In Currie's stories we come to know God as a feral dog and a
genocide victim and Colin Powell as a foul-mouthed race warrior.
It's not clear which is a greater leap of faith but this
brillaiant, absurdist fiction lets us embrace them both with a
shiver of empthay. I for one would be a happier camper, as the sun
sets on the American empire, if more of my own contrymen wrote like
Ron Currie."
--Lydia Millet, author of Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
"Currie's strength rests in his ability to focus on humanity's
conundrums on the smallest physical particles. The truth he
presents is that the world has become adsurd; he is merely
delivering a steady-cam view."
--Los Angeles Times
"[A] cavalierly abitious debut . . . with talking dogs, text
message-happy teenagers, and end-of-day shenanigans. Like Kurt
Vonnegut, [Currie] seems to understand that in the face of grim and
grave concerns, humor is a more powerful salt than screed."
--John Freeman, San Francisco Chronicle
"Few authors would dare to depict the near rape and death of God
amid a horrendous genocidal war, and fewer still could make it so
bladder-threateningly hilarious. Although there's genuine sadness
throughout, God is Dead is very likely the most entertaining book
ever written on the subject of deicide."
--The Believer
"God is Dead is a heady cocktail of ideas.
Broad-stroke symbolism and delicately shaded realism are swished
together with admirable aplomb. Currie's skills are equal to just
about any technical challenge. [His] stoic poignancy [is]
reminiscent of Raymond Carver. . . . The naturalistic texture of
Currie's prose gives everything a scary ring of truth."
--Michel Faber, The Guardian (London)
"In Currie's stories we come to know God as a feral dog and a
genocide victim and Colin Powell as a foul-mouthed race warrior.
It's not clear which is a greater leap of faith but this
brillaiant, absurdist fiction lets us embrace them both with a
shiver of empthay. I for one would be a happier camper, as the sun
sets on the American empire, if more of my own contrymen wrote like
Ron Currie."
--Lydia Millet, author of Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
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