Civilized America V2
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Thomas Grattan
Thomas Grattan is the author of the novel The Recent East, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and In Tongues, which was a finalist for the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. His writing has appeared in several publications, including The New York Times Book Review, One Story, Slice, and elsewhere. He has an MFA in Fiction Writing from Brooklyn College and lives in upstate New York.
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