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Michael Downing | 2008

Finalist | Fiction/Creative Nonfiction

Listen to Michael read an excerpt from Life with Sudden Death

Michael Downing

http://www.michaeldowningbooks.com

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Awards

Amazon.com, Book Sense, and Newsday Best Books of the Year selections
American Library Association Honor Book Award

Selected Presentations

Life with Sudden Death: A Memoir (Counterpoint, 2009)
Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Savings Time (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005)
Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center (Counterpoint, 2001)
Breakfast with Scot: A Novel (Counterpoint, 2000)
Perfect Agreement: A Novel (Counterpoint, 1997)
New York Times Book Review
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
Toronto Globe and Mail
Boston Globe
Commonweal
Harvard Magazine
Christian Science Monitor
Newsday
Boston Phoenix

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