Chris Bachelder

• Nov-2001
• / General Fiction
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So it's kind of like a parlor game, then?... The question is apparently of Ancient Eastern extraction.... It seems to be a gut thing. The answer just feels right and then you come up with reasons.... Given a relatively level playing field -- i.e.,...

• Mar-2006
• / Science Fiction
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In this hilarious and wildly inventive novel, Chris Bachelder brings Upton Sinclair back from the dead to see what he might make of our modern world.

U.S.! is a playful, darkly comic novel that imagines the serial resurrection and assassinat...

• Mar-2011
• / General Fiction
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A quiet tour de force, Chris Bachelder's Abbott Awaits transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, startlingly depicting the intense and poignant challenges of a vulnerable, imaginative father as he lives his everyday American existence.
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• Mar-2016
• / Literary
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Here is the absorbing story of twenty-two men who gather every fall to painstakingly reenact what ESPN called “the most shocking play in NFL history” and the Washington Redskins dubbed the “Throwback Special”: the November 1985 play in which ...

• Sep-2023
• / Literary
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An NPR “Books We Love” Pick • A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year • A Paris Review Staff Favorite • A Chicago Public Library Must-Read Book • A Seattle Public Library Staff Favorite of the...