Peter Grandbois
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Peter Grandbois is a professor of creative
writing and contemporary literature at Denison University in Ohio. His short
fiction has appeared in numerous renowned magazines and received an honorable
mention for the 2007 Pushcart Prize.
Set in nineteenth-century
Wisconsin and Colorado, Nahoonkara follows the
lives of three brothers striving to re-create themselves. While Killian takes
care of his sick mother and Eli flees after a conflict with his father, Henry
founds a prospering mining town. Featuring differing points of view and
beautiful poetic language, this outstanding novel reveals what happens when
individual identity collapses.
Peter Grandbois is a splendid writer I intend
to follow very closely.
Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize
Winner
The tight
prose and precise language are reminiscent of the rhythmic cadence of Cormac McCarthy or Jeff Talarigo. Peter Grandbois’ name is one we should look out for in years to
come.
Necessary
Fiction
Peter Grandbois’
poignant debut The Gravedigger is written in
the best Latin American tradition. Juan Rodrigo is haunted by the people he
buries in his tiny Andalusian village, feeling
compelled to pass along their stories. But the truths he reveals don't always
go over well among the surviving. Then his teenage daughter Esperanza falls in
love with a gypsy boy, and fate stops at his own doorstep…
A thoroughly engaging
novel, full of beauty and charm.
The
Rocky Mountain News
Reminiscent of the work of Luis Alberto Urrea
and Gabriel García Márquez,
this luminous first offering brims with earthy humor and heart.
Booklist
Elizabeth Cox on Grandbois’
first novel, The Gravedigger:
The Gravedigger, by Peter Grandbois, successfully intermingles
the world of death and the world of life, creating a place where one man, Juan
Rodrigo, both fights and embraces the mix of truth and story; and where the
characters seek a way to examine, or at least allow, a belief in the real
meeting-place of those two worlds.
Grandbois is a master at handling the world of reality and the
world of spirit as it exists in the same moment. The
Gravedigger will appeal to those who love the great South American writers. Peter Grandbois has delivered a complicated and complex story in
a readable and clear prose. His work is in the style of Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, though Peter’s voice and presentation of the story
is his own.
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Novels:
The Gravedigger, San
Francisco: Chronicle Books 2006, pb
2007, 255 p.
Film rights
under option
Poland:
Muza 2008
The Arsenic Lobster. A Hybrid Memoir, New York: Spuyten Duyvil 2009, 129 p.
Nahoonkara, Pennsylvania: Etruscan Press 2011, 161 p.
Short Stories:
Domestic Disturbances
Boulder: Subito
Press