Paul C Cody

With his previous novels—So Far Gone, Eyes Like Mine, and The Stolen Child—Paul Cody has established himself as a writer with uncommon gifts. Brian Hall (author of I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company) has said of his new novel: "I can think of no one else who writes with Cody’s combination o...

A meditation on a soon-to-be-born child. "Cody's prose is crisp, sinuous, and simple, yet also densely layered, like the James Joyce of Dubiners. Cody is one of our rare contemporary authors legitimately consumed by the big questions-love, death, faith, sex-and he has the talent to give those questi...

In late middle age, after a quarter-century clean and sober, novelist Paul Cody found himself lost in the fog of prescription drug addiction. He went to a rehab in the hills of Pennsylvania, and during a 37-day stay there he encountered doctors and soldiers and bartenders, MMA fighters and lawyers a...