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Selected praise for Robert Hough: ""Robert Hough is himself a very impressive act."" --Lynn Coady, TIME ""Hough has made a career specializing in fiction that's thoroughly researched and possessed with a vibrant moral heartbeat. . . . Hough's greatest skill, however, is as an old-fashioned storyteller."" --The National Post ""As a novelist, Robert Hough hasn't only impressive technical gifts and strong storytelling instincts. He brings to his fiction a kind of attentive regard for human nature and empathy for the plight of regular folk, whether those trials are as enormous as societal meltdown or as small as private struggles with happiness."" --Charles Foran, The Globe and Mail ""One of Hough's strengths is his ability to transmit the feeling of being immersed in his character's culture, to bring to life the sounds and smells of another place and way of living."" --Toronto Star Selected praise for The Final Confession of Mabel Stark: Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for 2002 Shortlisted for the Trillium PrizeA New York Public Library Best Book of 2003 ""Just about perfect. One of the most entertaining novels in many a year."" --Kirkus, starred review This masterful book is the complete package: great storytelling, a keen eye for detail, delightful turns of phrase, and a sense of humor and timing."" --USA Today ""Filled to the brim with cinematic moments and larger-than-life characters."" --Washington Post ""An extravagantly entertaining tale. . . . Reading it is more fun than going to the circus."" --Boston Globe Selected praise for The Stowaway: A Boston Globe Best Fiction Book of 2004 A Barnes and Noble Discover Pick ""Hough does a masterful job creating an atmosphere of stifling anxiety, set against a vividly detailed portrait of the workaday reality of a large cargo vessel. . . . A superb, deceptively simple novel."" --Boston Globe ""A moving, haunting novel, full of deeply sympathetic portraits of common people being uncommonly brave."" --Publishers Weekly ""A hair-raising story well told with sympathy and respect."" --Kirkus Selected praise for Dr. Brinkley's Tower: An American Booksellers Association Indie Next Pick for January 2013 Shortlisted for the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award Longlisted for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize ""A wildly imaginative historical novel set in the Mexican border town of Corazon de la Fuente, with a nod to the shenanigans of a true-life con artist."" --O Magazine ""Hough's tone recalls Mark Twain in tall-tale mode."" --The Washington Post

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Robert Hough has been published to rave reviews in fifteen territories around the world. He is the author of The Final Confession of Mabel Stark (Grove Atlantic, 2003), shortlisted for both the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book and the Trillium Book Award; The Stowaway (Arcade, 2004), one of the Boston Globe’s top ten fiction titles of 2004; The Culprits (Vintage Canada, 2008); Dr. Brinkley’s Tower (Steerforth, 2012), shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for fiction and longlisted for the Giller Prize; The Man Who Saved Henry Morgan (House of Anansi, 2015), a finalist for the Trillium Book Award; and Diego’s Crossing (Annick Press, 2015), shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award. Hough lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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