Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Marcel Theroux
Born: June 13, 1968 (age 55)
Bio: Marcel Raymond Theroux is a British novelist and broadcaster. He wrote The Stranger in The Earth and The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: a paper chase, for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2002. His third novel, A Blow to the Heart, was published by Faber in 2006.
Known for:
- Strange Bodies: A Novel (2013)
- Far North (2009)
- A stranger in the earth (1997)
- A Blow to the Heart (2006)