Fay

De: Larry Brown

Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte

Larry Brown is hailed as one of today's most talented Southern writers. With the release of each book, including Dirty Work, Father and Son, and Joe, reviewers and fans offer increasingly enthusiastic praise for the astonishing characters he creates.

At 17, Fay Jones leaves her family's squalid home with $3 in her bra and ragged sneakers on her feet. As she heads for Biloxi, people befriend her (a policeman, his wife, a bouncer) but her impact on their lives is seductive and unpredictable. Beautiful and naive, Fay becomes the catalyst in a chain reaction of desire and violence. Her journey provides unflinching snapshots of the South, from beaches to bar rooms. Wherever she lands, though, Fay is fueled by a deep-rooted will to survive. Narrator Tom Stechschulte voices every nuance of this unforgettable young woman's personality and her transient, often brutal, world.

©2000 Larry Brown (P)2000 Recorded Books, LLC

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Stechschulte's performance in this dialogue-rich Mississippi-based novel is breathtaking." (AudioFile)
"A work of grizzled beauty." (USA Today)
"A new voice of the south." (Time Magazine)

Average story

Fay is an uninspired story of a wayward teen. Yes, you've probably heard similar storys and imagined a few yourself. Quite predictable, trys to be shocking but fails. Good enough to hold your interest through the story but not much better than that.

another Stellar book by Larry Brown!

I really enjoyed this book by author Larry Brown. I look forward two the next!

Well done, but. ,...

White trash will make you grateful for other choices. Cringing moments abound. Well done but depressing.

Slack Jaw Entertainment

Slack jaw entertainment! Larry Brown is a uninhibited writer for this book. I found complete interest the entire book. I can't say that identify with the main character Fay but, her naive ignorance is endearing. I felt like I was listening to good trashy gossip. Ha! This book is not for everyone. Most will enjoy it greatly. Buy this little known story!

Larry Brown masterpiece

This work of literature is a brilliant collage of human emotions. Larry Brown is one of the south's best authors in several generations and this may be his best work. The ebb and flow of energy and lust and needs and desires is so well written that I am stunned.
I could not put this story down.

The good the bad and the ugly…

Tom Stechschulte wow!

There’s a lot to say about Fay… I loved it and didn’t love it sometimes for the same reasons… But I can’t imagine anyone telling this story any better than Stechschulte!
At first I loved the slow cadence of the book and the details were so descriptive that it made the characters feel like people you really knew… (and loved)… Then it started to drag with so many times hearing the same.damn.thing. By the end of the book I found the number of times I heard about lighting a cigarette or picking up a can of beer pretty annoying… And even with such detail there were characters whose stories were dropped… Like I wanted to know what was the real story of Rena… But I loved the well developed characters…all of them! And the ending… wtf? So there you go… another story that has a lot of flaws and yet I would suggest you listen as I’m glad I did…

Fay

An excellent read! Knowing this area of the deep south and its peoples brings back stark memories of the poverty, the gentleness of its people [Sam] as-well-as the meanness as in the character Aaron. This is a telling story of rural Mississippi.

I might listen to the rest.

The characters are well developed. I enjoy Browns style of writing. I went thru a range of emotional response while listening to this. I enjoyed Farther and Son a little more. The film adapted from "Joe" was enjoyable as well.

drama queen Fay

poor crazy white girl on the loose in the south of Mississippi killing those who betray her

Better than run of the mill

Follow a beautiful but ignorant 17-year-old as she escapes from her poor family into a kind of paradise with a policeman and his wife, and is ejected from paradise into a kind of hell of strip joints and whores. The most intriguing character in the book is the strip club bouncer, of incredible strength, capable of gentleness and great cruelty. The story is absorbing while it lasts but without lasting impact. It is well read.