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Tomas Moniz and Michael Downs at a bookstore in Baltimore.An Acre connection! Tomas Moniz (left) and Michael Downs (right) met up in Baltimore this week. Tomas Moniz is the author of Big Familia, coming from Acre November 2019. Big Familia is a story of making family...
Three of Acre’s titles made the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year finalist lists—Ethan Chatagnier’s Warnings from the Future (short stories), Michael Downs’s The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist (historical), Sara Kersting’s Duty to Warn...
We continue our review of Acre’s 2018 titles with The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist—a novel that the Los Angeles Review of Books aptly described as “not so much a character study or psychological novel as a meditation on the power of pain—the...
Michael Downs with a terrific article in The Millions on the connections between his novel and today’s opioid epidemic: “Pain relief then, as now with prescription opioids, promised miracles—until unforeseen complications arose. Personal, cultural, and market forces...
JMWW weighs in with glowing review for THE STRANGE AND TRUE TALE OF HORACE WELLS, SURGEON DENTIST.
Sara Kersting’s Duty to Warn—due out in October—has already racked up two amazing reviews: one in Kirkus, another (starred!) forthcoming in Foreword, which hails the book as “a finely tuned, suspenseful chase story . . . captivating.”Annnnddd, The Strange and True...
Michael Downs, author of the newly released Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist, answers a few questions about his ambitious, sweeping debut novel, centered on the modest, scientifically-minded man who changed the world by discovering that nitrous...
Michael Downs’s THE STRANGE AND TRUE TALE OF HORACE WELLS, SURGEON DENTIST provides a chill-inspiring close-up of a tooth key—a tool commonly employed in dentistry during the era in which his novel is set. We found the cover image on the website of Alex Peck Medical...
It’s a banner day for Acre Books: the official release date of our fledgling press’s first novel—Michael Downs’s THE STRANGE AND TRUE TALE OF HORACE WELLS, SURGEON DENTIST—as well as the big reveal of our fall lineup of fab titles! Tooth keys, erupting mountains,...
The story of the doctor who discovered painless surgery was possible. LISTEN to Michael Downs discuss his new novel, The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist, on Baltimore’s NPR news station.