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Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T. C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. Here are 14 new tales previously unpublished in book form. By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyle's stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. The stories here reflect his maturing themes.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed Bag
- De AuntGert en 09-22-20
De: T. C. Boyle
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The Shipping News
- De: Annie Proulx
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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At 36, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife gets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up new lives, Quoyle confronts his private demons - and the unpredictable forces of nature and society - and begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can't Explain Why I Love This Book
- De Polly en 03-06-12
De: Annie Proulx
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A Flag for Sunrise
- De: Robert Stone
- Narrado por: Stephen Lang
- Duración: 17 h y 47 m
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Possessed of astonishing dramatic, emotional, and philosophical resonance, A Flag for Sunrise is a novel in the grand tradition about Americans drawn into the maelstrom of a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. From the book's inception, listeners will be seized by the dangers and nightmare suspense of life lived on the rim of a political volcano.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A towering achievement
- De Skeptical en 04-24-11
De: Robert Stone
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Cool Blue Tomb
- De: Paul Kemprecos
- Narrado por: Barry Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
New York Times best-selling author Paul Kemprecos' first mystery novel, Cool Blue Tomb, introduces Aristotle "Soc" Socarides - part-time fisherman, part-time private eye, full-time philosopher. In his inaugural outing, Soc is swimming with the sharks - only problem is, he's the bait.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You will love this. It's that simple.
- De Pete en 10-29-11
De: Paul Kemprecos
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The Deep Blue Good-By
- A Travis McGee Novel, Book 1
- De: John D. MacDonald
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 6 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,833
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He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Before the A-Team, there was Travis McGee
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-12-16
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Signals: New and Selected Stories
- De: Tim Gautreaux
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with 12 new stories and eight from previous collections. Most are set in his beloved Louisiana, many hard by or on the Mississippi River, others in North Carolina, and even in midwinter Minnesota. But generally it's heat, humidity, and bugs that beset his people as they wrestle with affairs of the heart, matters of faith, and the pros and cons of tight-knit communities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfection! Amazing writer/amazing reader
- De Monique en 01-08-19
De: Tim Gautreaux
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The Confessions of Al Capone
- De: Loren D. Estleman
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 19 h y 37 m
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In 1944 Al Capone, the most notorious Mob boss in history, has already been released from prison. Though Capone is no longer the enormously powerful force who dominated Chicago’s underworld for years, he is still a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI chief knows that if he can somehow manage to get Capone to reveal details of crimes he and his Outfit committed, the Bureau has a good chance of nailing key members who now are active in the wartime black market.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story
- De Michael en 02-07-17
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Continental Drift
- De: Russell Banks
- Narrado por: Zach Villa
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Now available for the first time in audiobook format, a powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers. Russell Banks' Continental Drift is a masterful novel of hope lost and gained and a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice, disappointment, and the seductions and realities of the American dream.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Give up and die
- De AI en 12-09-21
De: Russell Banks
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Pacific Beat
- De: T. Jefferson Parker
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Ex-cop Jim Weir thought he'd seen it all during his years on the force. That is until he saw the body of his sister Annie, brutally used by a monster in human form, then carelessly discarded. He'd never seen such grief ravage the face of his friend and brother-in-law Ray Cruz, a good cop on the Newport Beach Police Department. When Weir learns that the only witness swore the killer made his escape in a Newport Beach squad car, his disbelief turns to confusion and outrage.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bad, bad, bad...
- De Robert E. Orlando en 11-19-14
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Mannheim Rex
- De: Robert Pobi
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 14 h y 46 m
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Recently widowered and grieving, Gavin flees New York City for the quiet of the country. His new home on Lake Caldasac has surprisingly few visitors, and the author soon learns why: a suspiciously high number of people have gone missing in the small town. The deaths have all been ruled accidents, but Finn Horn, a handicapped boy obsessed with fishing, knows the truth. There’s a monster in the lake. And it wants to feed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting and fun
- De Bob en 01-14-13
De: Robert Pobi
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Heaven's Prisoners
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 3 h y 15 m
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Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective's badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of the Louisiana bayou. But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his life - and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception and homegrown crime.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Where is the unabridged version?
- De Richard J. Strasma en 01-03-16
De: James Lee Burke
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Hawke: Three Black Ops
- Alex Hawke Series
- De: Ted Bell
- Narrado por: John Shea
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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This set includes Crash Dive, What Comes Around, and White Death, three Alex Hawke novellas never available before on audio. In Crash Dive, Alex Hawke is on a highly covert mission to enter another nation’s airspace undetected and find a way to avert a global war. In What Comes Around, two CIA officers are found dead. Hawke discovers that the victims are connected through one man: Spider Payne, a rogue intelligence officer. In White Death, M16 suspects a bizarre conspiracy when two bankers are found dead, and vast sums are plundered from the Queen of England’s accounts.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Scam
- De Anonymous User en 10-10-18
De: Ted Bell
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The Neon Rain
- A Dave Robicheaux Novel
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
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New York Times best-selling author James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels began with this first hard-hitting entry in the series. In The Neon Rain, Detective Robicheaux fishes a prostitute's corpse from a New Orleans bayou and finds that no one, not even the law, cares about a dead hooker.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Where it all began.
- De 9S en 12-06-09
De: James Lee Burke
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Laguna Heat
- De: T. Jefferson Parker
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 74
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Laguna: a place where a crazed killer has turned paradise into a Disneyland of depraved violence - with a fiery vengeance - and where homicide cop Tom Shephard unravels a grisly mystery. It reaches back across 40 years of sordid sex, blackmail, and suicide into the dark corners of his own past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous
- De Stacy en 02-24-09
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Alas, Babylon
- De: Pat Frank
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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This true modern masterpiece is built around the two fateful words that make up the title and herald the end - “Alas, Babylon.” When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness....
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4 out of 5 stars
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One apocalypse--hold the zombies
- De Lesley en 01-07-14
De: Pat Frank
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The Longest Silence
- A Life in FIshing
- De: Thomas McGuane
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
- Duración: 13 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14
From the highly acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts comes a collection of alternately playful and exquisite essays—including seven collected here for the first time—borne of a lifetime spent fishing.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrator had to catch a train
- De Brandon Taff en 01-11-23
De: Thomas McGuane
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Cloudbursts
- Collected and New Stories
- De: Thomas McGuane
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead
- Duración: 21 h y 2 m
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For more than four decades, Thomas McGuane has been heralded as an unrivaled master of the short story. Now the arc of that achievement appears in one definitive volume. Set in the seedy corners of Key West, the remote shore towns of the Bahamas, and McGuane's hallmark Big Sky country, with its vast and unforgiving landscape, these are stories of people on the fringes of society, whose twisted pasts meddle with their chances for companionship.
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5 out of 5 stars
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McGuane... I’ll Take You There
- De Rick S. en 08-31-20
De: Thomas McGuane
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Panama
- De: Thomas McGuane
- Narrado por: Ben Jaeger-Thomas
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Chester Pomeroy is a onetime rock star turned casualty of illicit substances. In the hands of Thomas McGuane, Chester's story is a high-wire act of extravagant emotion and steel-nerved prose. As he haunts Key West, pestering family, threatening a potential in-law with a .38, and attempting to crucify himself on his ex's door out of sheer lovesickness, Chester emerges as the pure archetype of the McGuane hero.
De: Thomas McGuane
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Crow Fair
- Stories
- De: Thomas McGuane
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1
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These stories attest to the generous compass of Thomas McGuane's fellow feeling, as well as to his unique way with words. In this collection, filled with grace and humor, the ties of family make for uncomfortable binds: A devoted son is horrified to discover his mother's antics before she slipped into dementia, and a father's outdoor skills are no match for a change in the weather. But complications arise equally in the absence of blood, as when lifelong friends on a fishing trip finally confront their deep dislike for each other.
De: Thomas McGuane
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Nothing but Blue Skies
- De: Thomas McGuane
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 33
Thomas McGuane's high-spirited and fiercely lyrical new novel chronicles the fall and rise of Frank Copenhaver, a man so unhinged by his wife's departure that he finds himself ruining his business, falling in love with the wrong women, and wandering the lawns of his neighborhood, desperate for the merest glimpse of normalcy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Brian Graeb en 08-06-18
De: Thomas McGuane
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The Sporting Club
- De: Thomas McGuane
- Narrado por: Ben Jaeger-Thomas
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 2
When James Quinn and Vernor Stanton reunite at the Centennial Club, the scene of many a carefree childhood summer, Stanton marks the occasion by shooting his friend in the heart. The good news is that the bullet is made of wax. The bad news is that the Mephistophelian Stanton wants Quinn to help him wreak havoc upon this genteel enclave of weekend sportsmen: "May I predict that this is not going to be the usual boring, phlegmatic summer?"
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2 out of 5 stars
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Overwrought voice acting
- De Аmazon Customer en 01-25-24
De: Thomas McGuane
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The Longest Silence
- A Life in FIshing
- De: Thomas McGuane
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
- Duración: 13 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14
From the highly acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts comes a collection of alternately playful and exquisite essays—including seven collected here for the first time—borne of a lifetime spent fishing.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrator had to catch a train
- De Brandon Taff en 01-11-23
De: Thomas McGuane
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Cloudbursts
- Collected and New Stories
- De: Thomas McGuane
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead
- Duración: 21 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 32
For more than four decades, Thomas McGuane has been heralded as an unrivaled master of the short story. Now the arc of that achievement appears in one definitive volume. Set in the seedy corners of Key West, the remote shore towns of the Bahamas, and McGuane's hallmark Big Sky country, with its vast and unforgiving landscape, these are stories of people on the fringes of society, whose twisted pasts meddle with their chances for companionship.
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5 out of 5 stars
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McGuane... I’ll Take You There
- De Rick S. en 08-31-20
De: Thomas McGuane
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Panama
- De: Thomas McGuane
- Narrado por: Ben Jaeger-Thomas
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Chester Pomeroy is a onetime rock star turned casualty of illicit substances. In the hands of Thomas McGuane, Chester's story is a high-wire act of extravagant emotion and steel-nerved prose. As he haunts Key West, pestering family, threatening a potential in-law with a .38, and attempting to crucify himself on his ex's door out of sheer lovesickness, Chester emerges as the pure archetype of the McGuane hero.
De: Thomas McGuane
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Crow Fair
- Stories
- De: Thomas McGuane
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1
These stories attest to the generous compass of Thomas McGuane's fellow feeling, as well as to his unique way with words. In this collection, filled with grace and humor, the ties of family make for uncomfortable binds: A devoted son is horrified to discover his mother's antics before she slipped into dementia, and a father's outdoor skills are no match for a change in the weather. But complications arise equally in the absence of blood, as when lifelong friends on a fishing trip finally confront their deep dislike for each other.
De: Thomas McGuane
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Nothing but Blue Skies
- De: Thomas McGuane
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 33
Thomas McGuane's high-spirited and fiercely lyrical new novel chronicles the fall and rise of Frank Copenhaver, a man so unhinged by his wife's departure that he finds himself ruining his business, falling in love with the wrong women, and wandering the lawns of his neighborhood, desperate for the merest glimpse of normalcy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Brian Graeb en 08-06-18
De: Thomas McGuane
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The Sporting Club
- De: Thomas McGuane
- Narrado por: Ben Jaeger-Thomas
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 2
When James Quinn and Vernor Stanton reunite at the Centennial Club, the scene of many a carefree childhood summer, Stanton marks the occasion by shooting his friend in the heart. The good news is that the bullet is made of wax. The bad news is that the Mephistophelian Stanton wants Quinn to help him wreak havoc upon this genteel enclave of weekend sportsmen: "May I predict that this is not going to be the usual boring, phlegmatic summer?"
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2 out of 5 stars
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Overwrought voice acting
- De Аmazon Customer en 01-25-24
De: Thomas McGuane
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- Anonymous User
- 04-22-23
brings me there
if it took a minute to adjust to seventies style , once there - tom mcguane still delivers. i liked it as much as i did when it came out.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-06-23
Give in to the words. It will be worthwhile
First, for my money, this narrator was perfect for this book and was a delight to listen to. Second, I agree that it’s easy to get lost when it comes to following the “plot” and all the characters and at first that bothered me. But the more I read the more I found myself giving in to simply enjoying McGuine’s imagination and his writing chops. Sit back and enjoy the ride would be my advice.
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- Tennessee Connection
- 11-29-23
Couldn’t finish it ….
I read a lot of McGuane’s ‘s stuff 25 years ago… Found him to be a very talented writer. Decided to try his more recent works… Sorry, but this crap is worthless.
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- sulfur fart
- 10-09-22
92
Had some great lines in it. Was worth the investment of my time. Would recommend.
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- A. Neff
- 01-20-23
couldn't follow it most of the time
I can't blame the reader for his efforts, though a little slower might have helped, and some of the voices were difficult to distinguish. But overall, the story was crap. I couldn't tell who was talking half the time, what part of the story I was in, or even if it was reality or thoughts. don't get me wrong, there was some great literature in there, but that's about it.
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