Matthew Sharpe (writer)
Matthew Sharpe (born 1962) is an American novelist and short story writer.[1]
Career
Sharpe's fourth book Jamestown was published in 2007, set in the first permanent English settlement in America reimagined as a modern-day dystopia, called by The Washington Post an "absurd hybrid of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Walt Disney's Pocahontas".[2] He followed it up with You Were Wrong, published in 2010. The New York Times praised it for "devastatingly comic observations about people, places and things — observations that fortify a novel whose subject and, well, whose stake in the horror and pathos of being alive seem flimsy in comparison".[3]
Bibliography
- Stories from the Tube (short stories, 1998)
- Nothing Is Terrible (novel, 2000)
- The Sleeping Father (novel, 2003)[4]
- Jamestown (novel, 2007)
- You Were Wrong (novel, Bloomsbury 2010)[5]
References
- ↑ "Sharpe, Matthew 1962–". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2026-04-27.
- ↑ Charles, Ron (March 11, 2007). "Jamestown review". The Washington Post.
- ↑ Maazel, Fiona (August 26, 2010). "Long Island Confidential". The New York Times.
- ↑ the Village Voice reviews The Sleeping Father
- ↑ Greenya, John (December 17, 2010). "BOOK REVIEW: 'You Were Wrong'". The Washington Times.
Categories:
- 1962 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American novelists
- Bard College faculty
- Columbia University faculty
- New College of Florida faculty
- Wesleyan University faculty
- Novelists from Connecticut
- Novelists from New York City
- 21st-century American male novelists
- Novelists from Florida
- American novelist, 1960s birth stubs