Chicago Days/Hoboken Nights

De: Daniel Pinkwater

Narrado por: Daniel Pinkwater

As millions of radio listeners already know, no one has had a life quite like storyteller Daniel Pinkwater. In this comical collection of memories, Pinkwater tells of how he grew into the beloved figure he is today: a robust genius of the printed page and rotund genie of the radio. He shares a conversation with his father about art school that changed the course of his career, describes his inauguration as a sculptor in a sleazy Chicago art factory, and recounts setting off for a bright center of the American art scene— or at least as close as Hoboken, New Jersey. Finally, we hear as Pinkwater pictures his first true audience, children. Chicago Days / Hoboken Nights is a memoir about how a visual artist turned to writing, only to be hailed as a "comic master" by the Washington Post Book World.

©1993 Daniel Pinkwater (P)1993 Phoenix Books, Inc.

Good stuff, what there is of it

I strongly suspect, both from the math and alternate sources, that this is an abridged version of this work.

The math: In your experience does 168 pages equal 2 hours reading time?

Alternate sources: Dove Audio used to carry Mr. Pinkwater and they bit me before with a reading of half of Borgel, which I say should be marked as abridged but which they marked as unabridged. I checked various sites starting with a search on Dove Audio and found this book with this artwork listed as Abridged.

This is not Audible's fault, the current distributor told them it was unabridged.

Finally!

This is a wonderful collection of essays.
I've been carrying around a cassette version of it since the nineties as they were not to be had on disc or digital.
These are some of the best things ever broadcast on radio.