Comments on: Fiction

By: frannie

frannie — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:05:28 +0000

I too loved ‘Lobster’ and since my family was in the process of closing a small family restaurant while I was reading it, it was especially meaningful for me. I am now reading ‘Emily’ and feel as though I inhabit the page. Mr. O’Nan, your style is so precise, it enriches my life, thank you!

By: Marya Spont

Marya Spont — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:50:49 +0000

Mr. O’Nan, thank you for taking the time and care to write “Emily, Alone.” The book made me want to be a better daughter and granddaughter, and overall a better person.

By: Janet Freeman

Janet Freeman — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:55:28 +0000

I also Loved Last Night at the Lobster. Absolutely Loved it!!!

By: Elinor W. Williams

Elinor W. Williams — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:52:48 +0000

I loved the two novels’Wish You Were Here” and “Emily Alone”. I have read these novels several times. Mr. O’Nan has a wonderful style of writing fiction. I love the way he described a beaded trail of water was left on the table-from Wish You Were Here. His descriptions of every day things seem so real. I hope that he will come out with another novel of the Maxwell family. Ella is my favorite among Emily’s grandchildren as I see myself in Ella. I also loved Justin Carlisle.

Please let me know if you will be writing any more fiction on the Maxwell family.

By: Tim Flanigan

Tim Flanigan — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:04:31 +0000

Stu,
As a fellow survivor of BU ENG ’83, I’ve been an avid follower since I stumbled upon A Prayer for the Dying quite some time ago. It’s certainly been a while since Herb and Skippy graced the engineering classrooms!
All the best for future success.
Tim F.

By: Mandy McGuire

Mandy McGuire — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:51:12 +0000

I read The Speed Queen when I was 17 (the year it came out) after stealing it from a friend (who has never had it returned to him). One of those damn books that has forever been stuck in my head, I have a compulsion to re-read it every few years. Just thought you should know.

By: Danny Smight

Danny Smight — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:03:30 +0000

I am a film student at UCLA and I have been trying relentlessly to find contact information for Mr. O’Nan. His ostensibly small but enormously powerful narrative touched me in such a profound and inexpressible way that I need to convey its affect on me to him. It would also make a wonderful piece of cinema and my dream is to be the one to usher it onto screen. Hopefully. Mr. O’Nan, if you’re out there, please know that I respect your vision immensely and would be honored to translate its quiet poignance and muted beauty of humanity onto screen.

Sincerely,

Danny Smight (Third Year Film Student at UCLA)

dansmight@mac.com

By: ussprinceton

ussprinceton — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:44:16 +0000

I loved “Lobster” and was really disappointed when it ended. I read it on my Kindle and wasn’t prepared for it to be finished so soon. I agree that it would make a great little film. I was pleased that the author used a real restaurant as the setting. One small quibble, I would have liked to have read a few actual descriptions of food preparation. The dishes just seemed to appear at the end of the line.

Burt

By: jkgeddes

jkgeddes — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:56:28 +0000

Please pass this to Mr. O’Nan — I loved Last Night at the Lobster and have been sending it around to members of my family – (we’re all big readers, and my dad – a retired eye doc in VT – is writing his first novel) —

Has Lobster been considered for a movie? It would be a great one – and John C. Reilly IS your Manny —

Thanks — looking forward to your next book —

Best,

Jennifer Geddes
Senior Associate Research Editor, Parenting magazine
New York City