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A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth: Stories Hardcover – May 5, 2020

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A Pulitzer Prize Finalist: This collection of moving short stories is “a treasure trove of lush scene setting in faraway times and places” (Alexis Burling, San Francisco Chronicle).

On a fateful flight, a balloonist makes a discovery that changes her life forever. A telegraph operator finds an unexpected companion in the middle of the Amazon. A doctor is beset by seizures, in which he is possessed by a second, perhaps better, version of himself. And in Regency London, a bare-knuckle fighter prepares to face his most fearsome opponent, while a young mother seeks a miraculous cure for her ailing son.

At times funny and irreverent, always moving and deeply urgent, these stories—among them a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart Prize winner—cap a fifteen-year project. From the Nile's depths to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, from volcano-racked islands to an asylum on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, these are tales of ecstasy, epiphany, and what the New York Times Magazine called the "struggle for survival . . . hand to hand, word to word," by "one of the finest prose stylists in American fiction."

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“A collection of stories with themes of class division, the artist’s role in society and our need for love and belonging, reflecting a prowess with language and a mastery of the short form.”―2021 Pulitzer Prize Committee

"Unique and beguiling... Mason's first short story collection is a treasure trove of lush scene setting in faraway times and places, from the wilds of England to the Malay Archipelago... A perfect and fitting pick for these seemingly endless days when science, our understanding of reality and a faint longing for human connection are so irrevocably intertwined."―Alexis Burling, San Francisco Chronicle

"What I've found most remarkable about Mason's fiction is the quality of his revelations, his ability to unveil temperaments, habits, natures. His stories are mysteries, albeit not in the genre sense... In all of the stories, you can see Mason figuring out new strategies to get closer to the people he is writing about. Each is a portrait, each a deep dive into an individual's nature, each rooted in history."―Wyatt Mason, New York Times Magazine

“A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth is itself something of an aesthetic miracle of found material, an extraordinarily rich and varied collection in which Mason's erudition shimmers with insight and deep feeling.”―Northern California Book Award Committee

“Mason is particularly strong at depicting the state of mind a character works himself into when struggling with fear, uncertainty or even impostor syndrome… the subjects and settings provide a pleasing unity. The grand pleasures of fiction are all here: rich, cushioning detail; vivid characters delivering decisive action; and a sense of escape into a larger world.”―John Self, The Guardian

"Mason conveys more in a short story than many authors manage in an entire novel."―Christian Science Monitor

“The characters in these robust short stories, set mostly in the nineteenth century, struggle as captains of their destinies.”―The New Yorker

"A wonderful set of period tales that offer a welcome transportive escape... conjuring a vivid world of scientific endeavor and human isolation in myriad settings."―Mariella Frostrup, BBC

"Daniel Mason is a masterful storyteller, and these stories---the attention to history and science and all that is unknown---are nothing short of brilliant. With exquisite, mesmerizing language, he transports us to places far beyond the realm of our realities and then lands us in ways wholly intimate and moving. A Registry Of My Passage Upon the Earth is a marvel and a journey not to be missed."―Jill McCorkle, New York Times bestselling author of Life After Life

"An enchanting cabinet of curiosities and wonders... Mason is one of our best historical novelists, creating panoramas of rich detail, propulsive plot, and artful character development... In his first story collection, he shows how quickly and completely he can immerse readers in a foreign place and time... Nine tales of human endurance, accomplishment, and epiphany told with style and brio."―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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Daniel Mason is the author of the collection A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize and winner of the California Book Award, and three novels, including The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages and awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize for Fiction, and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is an assistant professor in the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown and Company; Illustrated edition (May 5, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 031647763X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316477635
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1.25 x 8.5 inches
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Daniel Mason is the author of the collection A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize and winner of the California Book Award, and three novels, including The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages, adapted as an opera, and awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize for Fiction, and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.  He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is an assistant professor in the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry.

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a beautifully written collection that travels across time and around the globe
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a beautifully written collection that travels across time and around the globe
What a treat this collection is. I listened to the audio and preordered the hardcover and found this to be an extraordinary reminder of just how precise and elevated a form short stories can be in the right hands. this a book to treasure.
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John
5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2024
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I enjoyed this book more than almost any other contemporary work I've read in years. Finally, a writer who has a true sense of description and who can formulate lines of prose that seem constantly surprise one with their aliveness and care.
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Ron Stultz
4.0 out of 5 stars Runner Up for Pulizer Prize.
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2024
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Tend to reacnd all Pultizer prize fiction and noticed this was a runner up.

Really short stories with good details of time and space of each.

It did not "whack me up side the head" or make me ponder or learn something new but enjoyable.

Good English Major use of language with many lessor used words.

OK.
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Dan Mitrione
5.0 out of 5 stars If you're looking for a unique and exceptional group of short stories, this is for you.
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2022
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Well crafted and unique stories. The author has a gifted approach with his short stories and they are all very different and well thought out. I was impressed.
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San Jovanna
4.0 out of 5 stars Terrible Book Shop Inventory Sticker
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2024
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Book condition seemed great until I noticed the mis-aligned inventory sticker from this re-sale shop. This does not look "very good". As I removed it, the the book jacket tore and sticky gunk was left on the paper. No one wants your inventory sticker! I can understand its value to the shop, but switch to one of the easily removable no-gunk type that are common on most magazines!
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wendy m windebank
5.0 out of 5 stars Astounding and captivating stories so different from each other in style and interest
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2022
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All are winners and I’ve read them several times over and still find surprises. A 5* author, and never boring or repetitive. Highly recommended from a picky reader
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Jonathan T.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Stories
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2022
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This writer has an excellent imagination, and writes stories that are both engrossing and thought-provoking. A very enjoyable read.
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Sandra Iler Kirkland
4.0 out of 5 stars A Fascinating Anthology
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2020
This is an anthology of various stories by Daniel Mason. There are nine stories in the collection. Each concerns some individual and their lives. The title story, which is the last in the collection, concerns the life and artistic work of Arthur Bispo do Rosario, who lived in Brazil, was diagnosed as a schizophrenic and spent fifty years in an institution, where he embroidered lists of all he encountered in spectacular works of art.
Other stories portray a boxer and the scientific collector Alfred Russel Wallace who was a contemporary of Charles Darwin and extended his work. A Civil War reenactor is the protagonist of a story as is the Egyptian Psammetichus I. A young boy sick with tuberculosis in Victorian England is portrayed as is a woman hot air balloonist and an agent in the jungle who spends his life alone. My favorite story is one called The Second Doctor Service. It portrays a middle aged doctor who starts to have periods where he is absent from his body such as found in petit mal epilepsy. He starts to realize that while he is absent he is interacting with others with a different personality and as time goes on, he begins to realize that everyone else, including his wife, prefers the other personality.

Daniel Mason is a physician who has written several novels that were acclaimed such as The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier. He is currently a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Stanford University. The stories are immediately engaging and his ability to pinpoint personality traits is enticing. I felt several of the stories had a weaker ending than I expected. This book is recommended for readers of literary fiction.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Incomprehensible to me
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2024
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To me each story was like a foreign language where the thoughts of the author didn't connect with me. In the end of each, I couldn't explain the pages read. Disappointing.
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Wolfischer
5.0 out of 5 stars One more brilliant book by Mason
Reviewed in Brazil on February 2, 2022
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Fourth book by Daniel Mason, this one is a set of shorter stories in very diverse situations, but always dealing with human struggle.
Characters as diverse as: an English boxer, a naturalist, a telegraph operator, a pioneer balloonist woman, and to cap it all, a Brazilian mad artist (same title as the book's).

Already awaiting the next book by this fantastic author.
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Doctor Jenny
4.0 out of 5 stars Like marques
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 8, 2020
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Diverse short stories with different characters and styles. Would have loved them if more based on real patients, maybe some are.
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Brighouse
2.0 out of 5 stars From hero to Zero
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 28, 2022
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I thought that The Winter Soldier was the best book I have read this year and ordered all the other books by Mr Mason. This is the first to arrive and I do hope I have not made a giant mistake because I didn't enjoy it. The writing isn't as luminous, the stories are lackluster at best and some are real stinkers. Plot? Drama?? The first about a bare knuckle fighter was just plain awful, full of cod (or real - who knows) Regency terms and just seemed very up itself. A couple of paper thin stories about a Pharaoh and a mother protecting her child in smog bound London. The title story about a schizophrenic who became (after his death) something of a celebrity as he created art from found objects was as bizarre as the individual he was writing about - which sort of fits but really didn't make enjoyable reading. Emptying the flat after the death of a brother was probably the best of a bad bunch but what really ticked me off was his story about Alfred Russel Wallace - again a real character. Now two things readers need to take from this story - the first is Wallace was nowhere near as sad as the fictional Wallace is made out. Not only did he remain on good terms with Darwin, a respected author (his book on The Malay Peninsula has never been out of print) he became an FRS and was given Britain's highest honour The Order of Merit. When he died an offer was made to bury him in Westminster Abbey which his family rejected. He was well liked and had wide circle of friends he was a s far away from the misery described as you could get. The second thing is the attachment to Evolution - which of course Wallace had but considering this story was written in the last five years runs a little counter to modern thought. Yes of course Evolution exists but not in the state as described by Darwin and Wallace in that it wasn't the end of the affair but part of a wider stratagem. I am not talking about "intelligent design" but things like plasticity and mutation are equally important. A bit like Einstein working on large scale, evolution works when the heavy lifting has been done. So, if we all emerged from a primeval soup of single celled organisms how do we develop the placenta or light sensitive cells, irises and lenses which were not needed and gave no material advantage to such single celled beings. When you get to multi-cells and basic animal forms Evolution works but before that - not so much. This has been around for at least 50 years and I would have thought a writer as clever as this would have dug deeper. Then again I would have hoped a writer as good as this would have written better stories than this. I have two more books to come - hope I haven't made a mistake!
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