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Patrick Maher (born 1965 in Grand Rapids, Michigan), is an American writer. He has written two books, ''Candid Confessions'' and ''Pleng's Song''. A third, ''Memories of Gaslight'', has not yet been published. ==Novels== Maher's first novel, Candid Confessions, reached No. 1 on Amazon Japan's best seller list and was the third best selling foreign literary novel with Amazon.com Japan in 2001. It received a positive review from Male Pig's Magazine. In May 2008, Maher announced that he was writing a book called ''Memories of Gaslight'' about a character who "turns to his recollections of the sounds, sights and voices of Gaslight Village", for strength, which subsequently remained unpublished. Maher wrote ''Pleng's Song'', the story follows a young girl's adventure in the Bangkok floods, surviving without the help of her parents, whose divorce had been kept secret from Pleng. The book received mostly positive reviews from The Nation (Thailand), Times of India, The Republica, Kathmandu Post, Tripoli Post and The Himalayan Times.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tripolipost.com/articledetail.asp?c=15&i=10635 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Book+review%3A+Pleng%27s+adventure+will+hook+readers&NewsID=371876 )〕 The Nation (Thailand) also mentioned that the book suffered from "stylistic clumsiness. The book was inspired by Maher's personal experience, where he was caught in 2011 Thailand Floods and was almost drowned. He was picked up by a passing boat after almost an hour of standing in neck-high water. In an interview published in the Seattle Post Intelligencer, Maher claimed the book was "never intended to be a flooding adventure". In a later interview with Zee News, Maher claimed “the story definitely makes children question their lives.” 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://zeenews.india.com/exclusive/plengs-song-makes-children-question-their-lives-patrick-maher_6503.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patrick Maher (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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