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Dear Everybody

Dear Everybody

by Michael Kimball (Author)

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    Hardcover 2008

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Synopsis

Dear Everybody traces the nuances of a short-lived life, maintaining a tone of finely judged tension between laughter and tears in an involving and sympathetically written work of fiction. Jonathon Bender had something to tell the world, but the world wouldn't listen. However, he left behind him unsent letters addressed to relatives, friends, neighbours, athletics coaches, teachers, classmates, professors, room- mates, psychiatrists, employers, his younger self, former girlfriends, his ex- wife, a TV station and God, among many others. These form the narrative of a remarkable life.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
Published: 20 Mar 2008
ISBN 10: 1846880556
ISBN 13: 9781846880551

Media Reviews
Thank you for this book. What Jonathon Bender writes in his unsent letters are what each of us longs to say, what all of us have been saying our whole lives, just not out loud. --Stephen Graham Jones, author, Demon Theory
The page-turning urgency of a mystery and the thrilling formal inventiveness of the great epistolary novels. Jonathon Bender's magical letters to the world that never wrote to him are at once whimsical, anguished, funny, utterly engaging and, finally, unforgettable. --Maud Casey, author, Genealogy
By turns hilarious and haunting--and always thrillingly deep, surprising, and pitch-perfect . . . confirms Kimball's reputation as one of our most supremely gifted and virtuosic renderers of the human predicament. It's as moving a novel as I have read in years. --Gary Lutz, author, Stories in the Worst Way
I love this book, love the strangely detailed world that accumulates through letters, lists, yearbook quotes, and psychological evaluations. And I love the character of Jonathon Bender, the way he makes me so sad and also makes me laugh so hard. He will stay with me forever. --Jessica Anya Blau, author, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties
Believable and tragic. -- Baltimore Magazine
Elegantly and eloquently written. -- The Star-Democrat
Occasionally a novel by a new writer will cause critics to choke with excitement. This is one. --Scotsman
Elegantly and eloquently written. -- Star-Democrat
A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody . . . In Bender's unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the strange again and the simplest confessions are made moments of sublime wonder. Hold on to this book. --Christine Schutt, author, Florida, a National Book Award finalist, and winner of the O. Henry Prize and Pushcart Prize
Author Bio
Michael Kimball was born in 1967. His first novel, The Way the Family Got Away, was published to great acclaim in 2000 and has since been translated into many languages. How Much of Us there Was was his second novel.