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Jean Thompson

Jean Thompson is the author of Who Do You Love: Stories, a 1999 National Book Award finalist for fiction, and the novels City Boy and Wide Blue Yonder, a New York Times Notable Book and Chicago Tribune Best Fiction selection. She lives in Urbana, Illinois. Visit her at www.jeanthompsononline.com.

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The Year We Left Home A Novel By: Jean Thompson
This edition: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publication date: May 3, 2011
From National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson comes a mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family—proud, flawed, hopeful— whose story simultaneously captures the turbulent history of the...
Other Formats: eBook, Trade Paperback
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Do Not Deny Me Stories By: Jean Thompson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publication date: June 9, 2009
When Jean Thompson—"America's Alice Munro" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)—is telling stories, "You cannot put the book down" (The Seattle Times), and her superlative new collection, Do Not Deny Me, is one to be...
Other Formats: eBook
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Throw Like A Girl Stories By: Jean Thompson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publication date: June 5, 2007
A master of short fiction whose "best pieces are as good as it gets in contemporary cction" (Newsday) returns, as Jean Thompson follows her National Book Award finalist collection Who Do You Love with Throw Like a...
Other Formats: eBook
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City Boy
City Boy A Novel By: Jean Thompson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publication date: March 29, 2005
Newlyweds Jack and Chloe are building a life together in a modest Chicago apartment. The city is theirs to enjoy as Jack struggles to pursue a writing career and Chloe works downtown, applying herself to the world of high...
Other Formats: eBook
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Wide Blue Yonder A Novel By: Jean Thompson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publication date: December 31, 2002
From National Book Award-finalist Jean Thompson comes a compelling, highly charged novel about a family ruled by the weather, the drastic changes that hit their atmosphere, and a midwestern town where chaos doesn't reign --...
Other Formats: eBook
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Who Do You Love Stories By: Jean Thompson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publication date: November 2, 2000
In this acclaimed collection, Jean Thompson limns the lives of ordinary people -- a lonely social worker, a down-and-out junkie, a divorced cop on the night shift -- to extraordinary effect. With wisdom and sympathy and spare...