So Far Gone

A Novel

De: Jess Walter

Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini

National Bestseller Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize

"A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It's an American original."—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake

"Searing and sublime … Walter is a slyly adept social critic, and has clearly invested his protagonist with all of the outrage and heartbreak he himself feels about the dark course our world has taken ... What gets us all through … are novels like this one.” Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins—and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis’ True Grit—comes a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren.

Rhys Kinnick has gone off the grid. At Thanksgiving a few years back, a fed-up Rhys punched his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law in the mouth, chucked his smartphone out a car window and fled for a cabin in the woods, with no one around except a pack of hungry raccoons.

Now Kinnick’s old life is about to land right back on his crumbling doorstep. Can this failed husband and father, a man with no internet and a car that barely runs, reemerge into a broken world to track down his missing daughter and save his sweet, precocious grandchildren from the members of a dangerous militia?

With the help of his caustic ex-girlfriend, a bipolar retired detective, and his only friend (who happens to be furious with him), Kinnick heads off on a wild journey through cultural lunacy and the rubble of a life he thought he’d left behind. So Far Gone is a rollicking, razor-sharp, and moving road trip through a fractured nation, from a writer who has been called “a genius of the modern American moment” (Philadelphia Inquirer).

Going on my shelf of best books!

I read "Beautiful Ruins" years ago and still think of it, of its characters, the setting, and the beauty of the writing. When "So Far Gone" was recently published, I put it in my wish list, thinking to myself that this book just might be another Jess Walter jewel. I was not disappointed. This novel is a keeper. Jess Walter is really quite an amazing author--a wordsmith of such talent that his delivery makes your heart ache with joy and fear all at once. It is rare for me to be surprised by turns of events. Jess surprised me. It is rare to read your own feelings jump out from the page, as if the protagonist is a mind reader. Jess did that too. "So Far Gone" is sad and funny and sweet and infuriating and surprising. Edoardo Ballerini (also a great favorite) makes the audio version come alive. It's going on my shelf of best books to reread. Thank you, Jess Walter! Well done!

Recommend

Oh my gosh! One of the best listens ever! It was funny, emotional, suspenseful, and on and on. Loved it!!

engaging story

interesting characters, timely story line, rewarding ending, not the biggest fan of the narration but was good enough

Engaging from page 1

A family in crisis and finding their way back to each other. Very funny and moving. Highly recommend, especially if you liked Fleishman's in Trouble

The themes are so timely for today

The novel’s humor and complexities come to life in this masterful reading. Jess Walter always gives his readers a lot to process along with his wry humor and commentary on modern extremism. Each character is given the opportunity to evolve and explain while the story is masterfully crafted.