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ISBN: 9781664778993
| Runtime: | 23.13 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction/Literary |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
A New York Times bestseller
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
A 2011 Audie Award Finalist
A 2010 Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Book for Fiction
A 2010 Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book for Fiction
A 2010 Washington Post Best Book for Fiction
A 2010 ALA Notable Book
Selected for the May 2010 Indie Next List
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, May 2010
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“It is funny, it can be moving, it is ambitious, and it is tender about man’s endless absurdities and failings…As in good science fiction, this world is no less recognizable for the strangeness of its people.”
—New York Times
“Udall is…given to virtuosic description, but he uses the backdrop of Cold War atomic testing to fine effect, capturing the paranoia and nihilism engendered by the prospect of vast destruction, and has produced a wry, sympathetic portrait of a spectacularly dysfunctional family.”
—New Yorker
“Audacious, frequently funny…Udall’s blunt, empathetic portrait paints…a story that perpetually unsettles our expectations…Udall [is] a contemporary successor to the black humorists of the 1960s…yet the closing scenes resonate with extraordinary tenderness, even as the author continues to take big risks.”
—Washington Post
“A superb performance and as comic as it is sublimely catastrophic…Udall’s polished storytelling and sterling cast of perfectly realized and flawed characters make this a serious contender for Great American Novel status.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Comedy and pathos prevail…It’s impressive enough that David Baker easily slips from companionable raconteur to bearer of tragic tales. But most arresting of all is when he deadens his voice to become the merciless, omniscient narrator that Udall occasionally uses to observe Golden’s unhappy clan. Devoid of all the warmth normally in Baker’s voice, the transformation is truly frightening and sinister. That voice itself underscores what is the most salient characteristic of poor Golden and his brood: vulnerability.”
—AudioFile
“Lively, humorous, and sometimes tragic…Udall observes with a keen eye for the ridiculous while showing compassion. Think of the zany theatrics of Carl Hiaasen paired with the family drama of Elizabeth Berg. Enthusiastically recommended.”
—Library Journal
“Udall’s story has some of the whimsy of John Nichol’s The Milagro Beanfield War but all the complexity of a Tolstoyan or even Faulknerian production—and one of the most satisfying closing lines in modern literature, too. Fans of the HBO series Big Love will be pleased to see an alternate take on the multihousehold problem, and lovers of good writing will find this a pleasure, period.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Author
Author Bio: Brady Udall
Brady Udall is the author of The Lonely Polygamist, a New York Times bestseller, and Letting Loose the Hounds. He teaches at Boise State University.
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Details
| Available Formats : | Retail CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Literary |
| Runtime: | 23.13 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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