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Nicholas Nicastro

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in Astoria, New York, The United States

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Historical Fiction, Nonfiction, Crime

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Nicholas Nicastro was born in Astoria, New York in 1963. His education includes a B.A. in English from Cornell University (1985), an M.F.A. in filmmaking from New York University (1991), an M.A. in archaeology and a Ph.D in psychology from Cornell (1996 and 2003). He has also worked as a film critic, a hospital orderly, a newspaper reporter, a library archivist, a college lecturer in anthropology and psychology, an animal behaviorist, and an advertising salesman. His writings include short fiction, travel and science articles in such publications as "The New York Times", "The New York Observer", "Film Comment", and "The International Herald Tribune". His books have been published by Penguin, St. Martin's, and HarperCollins. ...more

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Average rating: 3.53 · 922 ratings · 136 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Isle of Stone: A Novel of Ancient Sparta 3.41 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empire of Ashes: A Novel of Alexander the Great 3.31 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ella Maud 3.84 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe 3.63 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hell's Half-Acre: A Novel 3.78 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Antigone's Wake: A Novel of Imperial Athens 3.67 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Passion of the Ripper 3.77 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The River Through Rome 3.81 avg rating — 32 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eighteenth Captain (John Paul Jones Book 1) 3.26 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between Two Fires (John Paul Jones, #2) 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Agrippa dipped his chin. “Of course he does, Publius. You have my head mounted in your vestibule!” As his status afforded, the guest of honor did not rise to greet him. His features, however, were not noble at all: he had the beetle-brows of a country clodhopper, the thick and lumpy nose of a farmer who had stepped on too many rakes. Worse, he was too young to signal the requisite severity. Like his patron, there was an air around him of youth playing at power. Except, in Italy at least, the power of Octavian and his playmates was real.”
― Nicholas Nicastro, The River Through Rome

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“The work done, she lowered him back into place with what, in his final thought, seemed great gentleness. And then he was done.”
― Nicholas Nicastro, Hell's Half-Acre

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“But I’ll let you in on a secret, Nonius: it is important for women to break hearts. You men can destroy in so many ways. But for us—for those lucky enough to make men fall in love with us—it is how we make our mark on the world. It is proof we were ever here, the pain we leave behind. And the more worthy the lovers we break, the better.” “Shall I take that as a warning?” “Only if you intend to fall in love.”
― Nicholas Nicastro, The River Through Rome

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