John Wray
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John Wray is the author of The Right Hand of Sleep, which won a Whiting Writers’ Award, and Canaan’s Tongue. He was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists in 2007. Born in 1971, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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.