Charlotte Rogan studied architecture at Princeton University and worked for a large construction firm before turning to fiction. She is the author of The Lifeboat, which was translated into twenty-six language and nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. After many years in Dallas and a year in Johannesburg, she now lives in Westport, Connecticut.
"The Lifeboat is a richly rewarding novel, psychologically acute
and morally complex. It can and should be read on many levels, but
it is first and foremost a harrowing tale of survival. And what an
irresistible tale it is; terrifying, intense, and, like the ocean
in which the shipwrecked characters are cast adrift,
profound."--Valerie Martin, author of Property and The Confessions
of Edward Day
"The Lifeboat is a spellbinding and beautifully written novel, one
that will keep readers turning pages late into the night. This is
storytelling at its best, and I was completely absorbed from
beginning to end."--Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried,
In the Lake of the Woods, July, July
"The Lifeboat traps the reader in a story that is exciting at the
literal level and brutally moving at the existential: I read it in
one go."--Emma Donoghue, author of Room
"Charlotte Rogan uses a deceptively simply narrative of shipwreck
and survival to explore our all-too-human capacity for
self-deception."--J. M. Coetzee
"What a splendid book. . . . I can't imagine any reader who looks
at the opening pages wanting to put the book down. . . . It's so
refreshing to read a book that is ambitious and yet not tricksy,
where the author seems to be in command of her material and really
on top of her game. It's beautifully controlled and totally
believable."--Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
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