Kassten Alonso’s novel Core: A Romance was an Oregon Book Awards finalist in 2005. He has published in the Portland Mercury, Portland Monthly, and The Oregonian, and was a contributor to Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon’s Sesquicentennial Anthology. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and daughter. Visit him at www.kasstenalonso.com.
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Core:
A Romance
- fiction
A beautifully written book. Impossible to put down.
- James Frey
- Author of A Million Little Pieces
This intense and compact novel crackles with obsession, betrayal, and madness, and was a 2005 Oregon Book Award Finalist for fiction. As the narrator becomes fixated on his best friend’s girlfriend, his precarious hold on sanity rapidly deteriorates into delusion and violence. This story can be...Forward
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Hawthorne Trivia: Kassten Alonso and Michael Strelow were both Oregon Book Award Finalists in 2005
Michael Strelow’s debut novel, The Greening of Ben Brown was an Oregon Book Award Finalist in Fiction 2005. So was Kassten Alonso’s debut novel Core: A Romance. Kass was Mike’s student while...Forward
The Pet Thief by Kassten Alonso is available for pre-order at Barnes & Noble.
The Pet Thief by Kassten Alonso is now available to pre-order Barnes & Noble.
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