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Jean Thompson
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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.

Jean Thompson's Books

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Do Not Deny Me Stories By: Jean Thompson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publication date: June 9, 2009
Jean Thompson, heralded as "America's Alice Munro...one of the best contemporary short-story writers" by Kirkus Reviews, delivers twelve exquisite new stories that combine her beloved trademarks of dark humor, seductively...
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 Girl.Here...
Other Formats: eBook
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City Boy
City Boy A Novel By: Jean Thompson
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: February 3, 2004
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: Trade Paperback
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Wide Blue Yonder
Wide Blue Yonder A Novel By: Jean Thompson
This edition: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publication date: December 25, 2001
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 -- it...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
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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...