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Bill Roorbach's newest novel is The Remedy For Love, coming October 2014 from Algonquin Books. Life Among Giants, also from Algonquin, is in development for a multi-year series at HBO, and won the 2014 Maine Literary Award in Fiction. Big Bend: Stories has just be re-released by Georgia in its Flannery O'Connor Award series. Temple Stream is soon to be re-released by Down East Books. Bill is also the author of the romantic memoir SUMMERS WITH JULIET, the novel THE SMALLEST COLOR, the essay collection INTO WOODS. The tenth anniversary edition of his craft book, WRITING LIFE STORIES, is used in writing programs around the world. His short fiction has been published in Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, and dozens of other magazines, jou ...more

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Life Among Giants
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3.43 avg rating — 2,869 ratings — published 2012 — 16 editions
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The Remedy for Love
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Lucky Turtle
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Writing Life Stories
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The Girl of the Lake
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Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey
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Summers with Juliet
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The Smallest Color
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“It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.”
― Bill Roorbach, Life Among Giants
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“The authorities aren't always up to the job.”
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“Will you marry me?" he said.
"We're married," I said.
"So marry me even more?”
― Bill Roorbach, Lucky Turtle
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