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Remarkably Bright Creatures is a novel by American author Shelby Van Pelt. It was published in May 2022 by Ecco Press. It has been on the New York Times hardcover fiction best-seller list multiple times. [1] It was awarded the 2023 McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize by the Writer's Center. [2]
Author Shelby Van Pelt talks about her octopus narrator, character and inspiration before the finale event for 14th Read Together Palm Beach County.
Remarkable Creatures may refer to: Remarkable Creatures , a novel by Tracy Chevalier Remarkable Creatures , a book and monthly New York Times column by Sean B. Carroll
Given the busy lifestyles of today, another variation on the traditional 'book club' is the book reading club. In such a club, the group agrees on a specific book, and each week (or whatever frequency), one person in the group reads the book out loud while the rest of the group listens. The group can either allow interruptions for comments and ...
“Remarkably Bright Creatures,” Van Pelt’s debut novel, was released in 2022 and became a best-seller. The story follows a lonely widow’s unlikely friendship with a giant octopus.
Editors' Choice, New York Times Book Review, one of the 13 best books of the year, 1989 (If the River Was Whiskey). Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree, State University of New York, 1991. Howard D. Vursell Memorial Award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, for prose excellence, 1993. Best American Stories selection, 1997.
John Rowe Townsend (19 May 1922 – 24 March 2014) was a British children's writer and children's literature scholar. His best-known children's novel is The Intruder, which won a 1971 Edgar Award.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama included the novel on a list of the best books he read in 2017. [24] Literary Hub ranked it as the second best book of the 2010s, behind only Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric (2014). [25] In 2024, The New York Times included Sing, Unburied, Sing on its list of best books of the 21st century, at ...