One True Thing

by Greg Matthews

Book Overview

From the acclaimed author of Heart of the Country comes a richly American book in the tradition of Mark Twain and Sinclair Lewis (The New York Times). Matthews combines his talents for crafting... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802111505
• ISBN13: 9780802111500
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

addictably readable

This is the sort of book new writers should read if they want to improve their own writing, and should stay away from if they want to avoid an inferiority complex. It's almost supernaturally well written.Every moment and every page seems to be lived, not plotted, to a point where you begin feeling like these are people you know, perhaps from around your own town or neighborhood.I think Matthews is most amazing in how he handles the transitions, the key weird moments of lives where a random happening or thought shapes everything that happens next to someone. Overall, the book is a very rare combination: one of great literary quality, and also a book that hooks you from the first page, and that you may find yourself addictively reading in one afternoon.