The Passage [Hardcover]
Dan Chaon is the acclaimed author of the national bestseller Await Your Reply and You Remind Me of Me, which was named...
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(12/05/10) Dan Chaon is the acclaimed author of the national bestseller Await Your Reply and You Remind Me of Me, which was named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications. Chaon lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and teaches at Oberlin College. Read his review of The Passage: There is a particular kind of reading experience--the feeling you get when you cant wait to find out what happens next, you cant turn the pages fast enough, and yet at the same time you are so engaged in the world of the story and the characters, you dont want it to end. Its a rare and complex feeling--that plot urgency pulling you forward, that yearning for more holding you back. We say that we are swept up, that we are taken away. Perhaps this effect is one of the true magic tricks that literature can offer to us, and yet it doesnt happen very often. Mostly, I think, we remember...See less
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