Robert Girardi Writer

Robert Girardi (born November 18, 1961) is an American author, writing on the themes of mystery or detective fiction, and religion, like an American Graham Greene, and loser narrator, like Sam Lipsyte.I think the world is much more of a place in which a man can be rescued by cows from pirates than it is this Raymond Carver world: "The man picked up a cup of coffee. He put it down. He knew there would be no coffee today."[referring to Daphnis and Chloe]I'll always be slightly out of sync with my contemporaries. I've never felt fully American - despite valiant attempts, I cannot bring myself to enjoy pro football or shopping malls. At the same time, I'm certainly not European. Instead I'm something in between, a perennial expatriate, a refugee from the gray skys over France, from the screech of the train coming into the Gare St. Lazare, from the wind blowing cold off Mount Olympus through the cracks around our bathroom window.

Personal facts

Birth dateNovember 18, 1961
Birth nameRobert Girardi
Birth place
Virginia , Springfield Virginia , United States
Nationality
United States
Education
University of Virginia
University of Iowa

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Writer

genre
Detective fiction
Essay
Mystery fiction
influenced by
notable work
A Vaudeville of Devils: Seven Moral Tales
Madeleine's Ghost
The Pirate's Daughter: A Novel of Adventure
The Wrong Doyle
Vaporetto 13: A Novel
Gorgeous East

Robert Girardi on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-n94-112045
  2. http://www.girardilit.com/about
  3. http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6661228.html