Tim Farrington

Background

The place and date of birth of Tim Farrington are unknown.

Career

Tim wrote The California Book of the Dead in 1997. According to a Publishers Weekly reviewer, the author compares death and destruction to the characters’ search for spiritual fulfillment. Farrington incorporates a real incident involving a guru who intentionally infected followers with the virus that causes AIDS. Molly Gorman, reviewing The California Book of the Dead in the Library Journal, maintained that Farrington accurately depicts the characters’ California soul searching, particularly in his descriptions of the apartment and everyday life, and called the work a “humorous debut.” Booklist contributor Whitney Scott deemed the novel to be “one enjoyable book.” A Publishers Weekly reviewer found the conclusion “disappointing and emotionally off-key,” but the work “amiable and well written” as a whole.

Farrington’s Blues for Hannah (1998) features a struggling artist who is forced to face his past when he must identify the body of a former lover. Publishers Weekly reviewer Sybil Steinberg commended the author for effectively portraying the stages of life and called the book “a memorable, refreshingly lucid expedition across two decades and vast terrains of human connection.”

Achievements

• Tim Farrington is known as the author of Lizzie's War, The Monk Downstairs, - a New York Times Notable Book - and The Monk Upstairs. He also wrote the critically acclaimed novels The California Book of the Dead and Blues for Hannah.

Works

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  • Blues for Hannah

    (Struggling to keep his marriage to his college sweetheart...)

    1998
  • The California Book of the Dead

    (Lesbians Marlowe and Daa search for a lover and roommate ...)

    1997
  • A Hell of Mercy: A Meditation on Depression and the Dark Night of the Soul

    (In this unflinching look at depression and the human stru...)

    2009
  • The Monk Upstairs

    (Heavenly Ever After? When Rebecca Martin finds the love o...)

    2009
  • The Monk Downstairs

    (Rebecca Martin is a single mother with an apartment to re...)

    2010
  • The Lazarus Kid

    (An angel has come for eight-year-old Alejandro Rodriguez,...)

    2018
  • Lizzie's War

    (A family epic laced with authenticity, wit and unforgetta...)

    2010
  • Slow Work 2018
  • The Incident at the Bank of America 2018

Views

Quotations: ''We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of those two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again, in the mapless wilderness of love.''

Interests

• Eastern cultures

References

• Contemporary Authors, Vol. 184
  2000