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Douglas Kennedy was born in Manhattan in 1955. He studied at Bowdoin College, Maine and Trinity College, Dublin, returning to Dublin in 1977 with just a trenchcoat, backpack and $300. He co-founded a theatre company and sold his first play, Shakespeare on Five Dollars a Day, to Radio 4 in 1980. In 1988 he moved to London and published a travel book, Beyond the Pyramids. His debut novel The Dead Heart was published in 1994.

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	The Pursuit of Happiness 4.16 avg rating — 8,482 ratings — published 2001 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Big Picture 3.92 avg rating — 4,397 ratings — published 1997 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leaving the World 3.71 avg rating — 3,866 ratings — published 2009 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Special Relationship 3.78 avg rating — 3,411 ratings — published 2003 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Woman in the Fifth 3.31 avg rating — 3,691 ratings — published 2007 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	State of the Union 3.82 avg rating — 3,089 ratings — published 2005 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dead Heart 3.83 avg rating — 2,409 ratings — published 1995 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Blue Hour 3.62 avg rating — 2,227 ratings — published 2015 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Pursuit of Happiness

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“We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.”
― Douglas Kennedy, Leaving the World

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“We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what happened to us. And we carry everywhere all that has shaped us-all that we lacked, all that we wanted but never got; all that we got but never wanted; all that was found and lost.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Moment

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Incidents Around the House Josh Malerman

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The Chain Adrian McKinty

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The Graveyard Apartment Mariko Koike

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Into the Drowning Deep Mira Grant

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Worst Case Scenario T.J. Newman

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The Black Painting Neil Olson

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Wolf at the Table Adam Rapp

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The Dead Heart Douglas Kennedy

5 votes, 2.2%

Nocturne Ed McBain

4 votes, 1.7%

Say No More Karen Rose

4 votes, 1.7%

The Tacharan: A Story of Loch Ness Keith D. Graham

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Proximity Factor S S Jung

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The Last Animal Ramona Ausubel

2 votes, 0.9%

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