Stephen Wright
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Going Native
- By: Stephen Wright
- Narrator: Will Collyer
- Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 07, 2020
- Language: English
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3.6(655 ratings)
3.6
(655 ratings)
A dutiful husband and father walks out of his life and into a road trip from hell in a novel Toni Morrison calls “astonishing” and Don Delillo proclaims “a slasher classic . . . strange, dark, and funny.” Wylie Jones has a
A dutiful husband and father walks out of his life and into a road trip from hell in a novel Toni Morrison calls “astonishing” and Don Delillo proclaims “a slasher classic . . . strange, dark, and funny.”
Wylie Jones has a happy marriage, beautiful children, and backyard barbecues in his tastefully decorated suburban house. One night he follows a sudden impulse, leaves his wife in bed, and commandeers his neighbor’s emerald-green Ford Galaxy 500, driving away without a second look. He sheds all traces of his old life in favor of a new name and a new life and drives from town to town, following his deepest impulses where they lead.
By turns scathing and hilarious, Stephen Wright’s outrageous rollercoaster of sex and violence probes the nihilistic and savage core of the American identity.
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Meditations in Green
- By: Stephen Wright
- Narrator: Will Collyer
- Length: 12 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 07, 2020
- Language: English
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4(454 ratings)
4
(454 ratings)
One of the greatest Vietnam War novels ever written, by an award-winning writer who experienced it firsthand.Deployed to Vietnam with the U.S. Army’s 1069 Intelligence Group, Spec. 4 James Griffin starts out clear-eyed and hardworking,
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One of the greatest Vietnam War novels ever written, by an award-winning writer who experienced it firsthand.
Deployed to Vietnam with the U.S. Army’s 1069 Intelligence Group, Spec. 4 James Griffin starts out clear-eyed and hardworking, believing he can glide through the war unharmed. But the kaleidoscope of horrors he experiences gets inside him relentlessly. He gradually collapses and ends up unstrung, in step with the exploding hell around him and waiting for the cataclysm that will bring him home, dead or not.
Griffin survives, but back in the U.S. his battles intensify. Beset by addiction, he takes up meditating on household plants and attempts to adjust to civilian life and beat back the insanity that threatens to overwhelm him.
Meditations in Green is a haunting exploration of the harrowing costs of war and yet-unhealed wounds, “the impact of an experience so devastating that words can hardly contain it” (Walter Kendrick, the New York Times Book Review). Through passages gorgeous, agonizing, and surreal, Stephen Wright paints a searing portrait of a nation driven to the brink by violence and deceit.
Processed Cheese
- By: Stephen Wright
- Narrator: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 13 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 21, 2020
- Language: English
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2.5(320 ratings)
2.5
(320 ratings)
From an “astonishing” writer (Toni Morrison), the savagely funny story of a couple who unexpectedly come into some money in a wealth-obsessed America deranged by Mammon. A bag of money drops out of the sky, literally, into the path of a
From an “astonishing” writer (Toni Morrison), the savagely funny story of a couple who unexpectedly come into some money in a wealth-obsessed America deranged by Mammon.
A bag of money drops out of the sky, literally, into the path of a cash-starved citizen named Graveyard. He carries it home to his wife, Ambience, and they embark on the adventure of their lives, finally able to have everything they’ve always thought they deserved: cars, guns, games, jewels, clothes–and of course sex, travel, and time with friends and family. There is no limit except their imagination and the hours in the day, and even those seem to be subject to their control.
Of course, the owner of the bag is searching for it, and will do whatever is necessary to get it back. And, of course, these new riches change everything–and nothing at all.
Darkly hilarious, Processed Cheese is both satire and serious as death. It’s a road novel, a family story, and a last-girl-standing thriller of once-in-a-generation vitality and inventiveness. With the clarity of a Swift or a Melville, Wright has created a funhouse-mirror drama that puts all the chips on the table and every bullet in the clip, down to the last breathtaking moment.
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Black Lies Matter
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Baat Paise Ki
We work hard to earn our money. But regardless of how much we earn, the money worry never goes away. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if our money worked for us just as we work hard for it? What if we had a proven system to identify dud investment schemes? What if we could just plug seamlessly into a simple, jargon-free plan to get more value out of our money, and have a super good life today?India’s ...
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Principal Klutz has invited a special guest to Ella Mentry School. Her name is Miss Aker, and she’s going to show A.J. and his friends how to create ...
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Purgatory
USA Today best-selling author William W. Johnstone writes authentic Westerns packed with gritty action and breakneck suspense. Matt Jensen-reared by legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen-makes the mistake of riding into Purgatory, Arizona. Before he can even dismount his horse, he’s arrested unjustly and sentenced to be hanged.
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Philip Nolan
Philip Nolan: The Man Without a Country is Chuck Pfarrer’s captivating adaptation of Edward Everett Hale’s American classic “The Man Without a Country,” first published in The Atlantic Monthly more than a century ago. Masterfully blending history and fiction, Pfarrer tells the story of a young artillery officer, Philip Nolan, who becomes embroiled in Aaron Burr’s 1807 conspiracy to ...
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Morning Light
A brand new CONTEMPORARY series from the New York Times bestselling author whose novels are: Born with second sight, Loni MacEwen must warn the handsome rancher Clint Harrigan that his son is in danger-except he doesn’t even have a son. Then the drama Loni predicted unfolds on the news: an orphaned boy is lost in the wilderness. As Loni and Clint help in the search for the boy, they begin to ...
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The Artist’s Way
“Without The Artist’s Way, there would have been no Eat, Pray, Love.” —Elizabeth GilbertThe Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life. Still as vital today—or perhaps even more so—than it was when it was first published one decade ago, it is ...
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Tides
Henfield Prize-winner and brilliant newcomer Sara Freeman debuts with an intoxicating, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town.
After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside town. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed exile scrounging for food ...
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The Red Ribbon
An Appalachian Feud Blows Up in 1912
In Carroll County, a corn shucking is the social event of the season, until a mischievous kiss leads to one of the biggest tragedies in Virginia history.
Ava Burcham isn’t your typical Blue Ridge Mountains girl. She has a bad habit of courtin’ trouble, and her curiosity has opened a rift in the middle of a feud between politicians and would-be outlaws, ...
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