John Wray
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John Wray was born in Washington, DC in 1971. His first novel, The Right Hand of Sleep (Vintage UK/Knopf) won a Whiting Writers’ Award. He was recently chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists 2007.
The Lost Time Accidents
This year’s Big American Novel is a high-concept epic that races through one family’s experience of the twentieth century
“This is a very fine novel indeed … Anybody who seeks to understand the world as it is today will find enlightenment here.”
Allan Massie
Scotsman
“I definitely don’t judge people who become passionately involved in a political struggle, even to the point of taking up weapons in the service of that struggle, in the way that I would have before beginning the book.”
John Wray interviewed in the Guardian about his novel, Godsend, and the intriguing – and maybe risky – political ground it treads.
Guardian
“A significant literary performance … Godsend builds to a shattering, balefully vivid ending.”
Dwight Garner
New York Times
The Lost Time Accidents is a bold and epic saga set against the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century. Here, John Wray reads an extract from his ambitious and fiercely inventive novel.