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Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was long-listed for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A NewYork Times Book Review Editors' Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by more than fifty publications in nine countries, and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. His fiction has appeared in The NewYorker, The Paris Review, and A Public Space, and he has written nonfiction for The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and Harper's Magazine. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, he lives in New York City.
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Garth Greenwell's narration of his intimate third novel is breathtaking. When a searing pain sends him into the ICU in the fall of 2020, an unnamed poet endures a period of fear, loneliness, unending medical humiliations, and surprising moments of tenderness. In his hospital bed, interacting with nurses and doctors and, once a day, his partner, L., he muses on his past and future, poetry, beauty,
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