Richard Watt (4) (1962–)
Autor de Going Back
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Obras de Richard Watt
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Watt, Richard
- Nombre legal
- Watt, Richard Murray
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1962-10-19
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK (birth), Canada (passport)
- País (para mapa)
- Canada
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
- Educación
- University of Edinburgh
- Biografía breve
- Richard Watt was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1962. He has a degree in Linguistics from Edinburgh University, and has spent much of his working life in sales and IT. Richard's writing career took off when he became a regular contributor to the Prince George Citizen newspaper with his Dear Friends columns, written during the process of moving to the northern BC city in 2006. Since moving to Canada, Richard has had flash fiction accepted by 365 Tomorrows, and published his first full-length novel, Going Back, in June 2013.
Richard is also a qualified soccer coach, and spends much of his time squinting into a low sun, shouting at teenagers.
Readers of the Dear Friends letters will know that Richard has been married to Zoë since 1986. They have two boys and two cats.
Miembros
Reseñas
Andrew Macintyre returns to the German town where, on a school trip 25 years previously, he had an experience that shaped his life. What he doesn’t know is just how much that trip meant: both in forming the man he has become, and also in transforming the lives of many others, including those dearest to him.
I enjoyed this a lot – it had a genuine psychological realism to it, and it was fascinating to watch a man discover another half to his life, to have his experiences given perspective and to watch a group slowly come to terms with a past they have sought to avoid. The pages turned easily, and in particular I enjoyed how experiences that might not have phased one person crippled another, and that this could be conveyed without melodrama or making the character appear unsympathetic. In the best way, it all felt very real.… (más)
I enjoyed this a lot – it had a genuine psychological realism to it, and it was fascinating to watch a man discover another half to his life, to have his experiences given perspective and to watch a group slowly come to terms with a past they have sought to avoid. The pages turned easily, and in particular I enjoyed how experiences that might not have phased one person crippled another, and that this could be conveyed without melodrama or making the character appear unsympathetic. In the best way, it all felt very real.… (más)
Listas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 1
- Miembros
- 6
- Popularidad
- #1,227,255
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 10
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