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John Casey
John Casey was born in 1939 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and the University of Iowa. His previous novel, Spartina, won the 1989 National Book Award for fiction. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he is Henry Hoyns Professor in the English Department at the University of Virginia. He is literary executor of the estate of Breece D’J Pancake....
An American Romance
An American Romance
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John Casey's love story is a voluptuous novel about Anya and Max and their passionate, tumultuous relationship. Set against the backdrop of rural Iowa, An American Romanc...
Testimony and Demeanor
Testimony and Demeanor
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A young intellectual is called into active duty and receives a rude awakening to the realities of military service. An Ivy League graduate is pressed casually into Intell...
Compass Rose (Vintage Contemporaries)
Compass Rose (Vintage Contemporaries)
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A Providence Journal Best Book of the YearA Seattle Times Best Book of the Year John Casey follows up his National Book Award-winning novel Spartina with an extraordin...
The Half-life of Happiness
The Half-life of Happiness
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"[Casey] is an astute observer of the ruses as well as the private confrontations that govern our behavior." --The Washington Post Book WorldIn The Half-life of Happiness...