Jane McCafferty

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Jane McCafferty


Born
The United States

Jane McCafferty is the author of the novel One Heart and two collections of stories, Thank You for the Music and Director of the World and Other Stories, which won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. She is the recipient of an NEA award, the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award, and two Pushcart Prizes. She lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Average rating: 3.28 · 894 ratings · 150 reviews · 15 distinct worksSimilar authors
First You Try Everything

2.98 avg rating — 476 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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One Heart: A Novel

3.57 avg rating — 281 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions
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Thank You for the Music

3.55 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
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Director Of The World And O...

4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions
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The Sea Lion Who Saved the ...

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20 More: Selected Stories f...

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Moon's Door

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ONE HEART

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20 More: Selected Stories f...

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Director of the World

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“When everyone you loved in your life is gone, you have days when the wind comes into your house like a person. You get so alone the wind sits down at your table and tries to have itself a cup of coffee, but it can't, there's no time, it has to move on, it's the wind. I'm not saying the wind is a ghost, only that the feeling is of the wind, the whole notion of the wind, is different when all people you ever loved are gone. It's not fresh air blowing through your hair and airing out your sheets and kitchen. No, sir. It's company. The wind is company that has to go”
Jane McCafferty

“She would not exploit anyone. People would not observed by irony run amok. The audience would not have their superiority confirmed. Somehow they would feel like everyone was in it together.”
Jane McCafferty

“It was true that she was still not a follow-through person, but rather one of those often befuddled souls who seem paralyzed by the exorbitant weight of their own good intentions.”
Jane McCafferty, First You Try Everything: A Novel

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