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Benjamin Whitmer was born in 1972 and raised on back-to-the-land communes and counterculture enclaves ranging from Southern Ohio to Upstate New York. One of his earliest and happiest memories is of standing by the side of a country road with his mother, hitchhiking to parts unknown. Since then, he has been a factory grunt, a vacuum salesman, a convalescent, a high-school dropout, a semi-truck loader, an activist, a kitchen-table gunsmith, a squatter, a college professor, a dishwasher, a technical writer, and a petty thief. He has also published fiction and non-fiction in a number of magazines, anthologies, and essay collections. Pike is his first novel.

He lives with his two children in Colorado, where he spends most of his free time tro ...more

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Average rating: 4.04 · 2,832 ratings · 416 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	Cry Father 3.92 avg rating — 658 ratings — published 2014 — 12 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
	Pike 3.92 avg rating — 503 ratings — published 2011 — 22 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
	Évasion 3.47 avg rating — 178 ratings — 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
	Les dynamiteurs by Benjamin Whitmer (Goodreads Author), Jacques Mailhos (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 77 ratings — 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
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	Evasión by Benjamin Whitmer (Goodreads Author), Virginia Maza Castán (Translator) 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings	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
	Dead Stars by Benjamin Whitmer (Goodreads Author), Jacques Mailhos (translator) 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 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
	Pike (Noir) (French Edition) by Benjamin Whitmer (Goodreads Author), Jacques Mailhos (translator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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
	Im Westen nichts: Kriminalroman by Benjamin Whitmer (Goodreads Author), Len Wanner (translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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Delinquency, drugs, prison, violent death. Sitting in a Parisian restaurant, Benjamin Whitmer, handsome face, stormy blue eyes, declines the destinies that could have been his. We would not dare to write such a cliché if it were not for the truth of this man: literature saved him.

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“Just this. I never knew anyone who fucked up their life good who didn’t think they were special. The holes they dug themselves into were exactly the shape of their dreams.”
― Benjamin Whitmer, Pike

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“I never knew anyone who fucked up their life good who didn't think they were special. The holes they dug themselves into were exactly the shape of their dreams”
― Benjamin Whitmer, Pike

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“He's got all the equipment of manhood save the parts that matter.”
― Benjamin Whitmer, Pike

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