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"We cannot help but shudder at the things adults are capable of," Pittard writes, as the now-grown narrators watch their own daughters.
A Marriage Memoir And A Book About Death: Book Reviews You Might Have Missed The Huffington Post 2011
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"We cannot help but shudder at the things adults are capable of," Pittard writes, as the now-grown narrators watch their own daughters.
A Marriage Memoir And A Book About Death: Book Reviews You Might Have Missed The Huffington Post 2011
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Labeling Mr. Obama a "socialist," Mr. Pittard says he opposed health-care reform and industry bailouts.
Across America, the Middle Looks Up for Grabs—Again Neil King Jr. 2012
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Pittard powerfully evokes the intense contradictions of adolescence: the capacity to feel dread, boldness, vulnerability, nostalgia and desire in a single instant.
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Jan Pittard, a marketing professional from Ormond Beach who lost two jobs in the past four years and now runs several businesses he started, wouldn't argue with that.
Across America, the Middle Looks Up for Grabs—Again Neil King Jr. 2012
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Pittard can be harrowingly wise about the melancholy process of growing up, of moving from the horny days of high school to the burden of protecting our own children.
A missing girl's long shadow Ron Charles 2011
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Pittard, a young short story writer who graduated from the University of Virginia, seems at first to be reworking several other authors' material.
A missing girl's long shadow Ron Charles 2011
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But Pittard isn't grasping at the coattails of abduction thrillers, nor is she rewriting Eugenides's macabre book, though she graciously acknowledges its influence.
A missing girl's long shadow Ron Charles 2011
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But Pittard doesn't intrude very far into this family's grief, nor do we hear anything about the police investigation.
A missing girl's long shadow Ron Charles 2011
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Instead of giving voice to one individual, Pittard, an award-winning American short-story writer, chooses to adopt the collective voice of a group of male adolescents; or, more precisely, memories of their teenage years filtered through their perspectives as much older men.
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