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Ron Currie

Biography

Ron Currie

Ron Currie is the author of the novels EVERYTHING MATTERS! and FLIMSY LITTLE PLASTIC MIRACLES and the short story collection GOD IS DEAD, which was the winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. In 2009, he received the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His books have been translated into 15 languages. He lives in Portland, Maine.

Ron Currie

Books by Ron Currie

The One-Eyed Man
by Ron Currie - Fiction

K. is possessed of a hyper-articulate exasperation with the world, a doomed truth teller whom everyone misunderstands. After his wife Sarah dies, K. loses his metaphorical capacity, becoming so wedded to the notion of clarity that he infuriates everyone, friends and strangers alike. When he intervenes in an armed robbery, K. finds himself both an inadvertent hero and the star of a new reality television program. Together with Claire, a grocery store clerk with a sharp tongue and a yen for celebrity, he travels the country, ruffling feathers and gaining fame at the intersection of American politics and entertainment. But soon he discovers that the world will fight viciously to preserve its delusions about itself.