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Eastman Was Here audiobook
- By: Alex Gilvarry
- Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
- Category: Fiction, Literary
- Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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Eastman Was Here Audiobook Summary
“Absorbing…Eastman is a riveting…presence who demands to be loved and remembered.” —The Boston Globe
An ambitious new novel set in the literary world of 1970s New York, following a washed-up writer in an errant quest to pick up the pieces of his life.
One of Esquire’s Best books of 2017 (So Far), The Millions’ Most Anticipated Books of the Second Half of 2017, and BuzzFeed’s Exciting New Books You Need To Read This Summer
The year is 1973, and Alan Eastman, a public intellectual, accidental cultural critic, washed-up war journalist, husband, and philanderer; finds himself alone on the floor of his study in an existential crisis. His wife has taken their kids and left him to live with her mother in New Jersey, and his best work feels as though it is years behind him. In the depths of despair, he receives an unexpected and unwelcome phone call from his old rival dating back to his days on the Harvard literary journal, offering him the chance to go to Vietnam to write the definitive account of the end of America’s longest war. Seeing his opportunity to regain his wife’s love and admiration while reclaiming his former literary glory, he sets out for Vietnam. But instead of the return to form as a pioneering war correspondent that he had hoped for, he finds himself in Saigon, grappling with the same problems he thought he’d left back in New York.
Following his widely acclaimed debut, From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, Alex Gilvarry employs the same thoughtful, yet dark sense of humor in Eastman Was Here to capture one irredeemable man’s search for meaning in the face of advancing age, fading love, and a rapidly-changing world.
“With his second book, Gilvarry establishes himself as a writer who defies expectation, convention and categorization. Eastman Was Here is a dark, riotously funny and audacious exploration of the sacred and the profane—and pretty much everything in between.” —Téa Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife
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Eastman Was Here Full Details
| Narrator | Bronson Pinchot |
| Length | 10 hours 29 minutes |
| Author | Alex Gilvarry |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 01, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781524778941 |
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The publisher of the Eastman Was Here is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: eastman was here, alex gilvarry, new york city, dark humor, dark comedy, norman mailer, vietnam, saigon, vietnam war, despair, depression, dark fiction, existential crisis, divorce, marriage, relationship, relationships, husband, husbands, wife, wives, family, career, journalist, literary fiction, satire, historical, historical fiction books, realistic fiction books, historical fiction, fiction, novels, humor, fiction books, historical novels, literature, books fiction, humorous books, books historical fiction, Fiction, Literary, Fiction, Historical The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary
Additional info
The publisher of the Eastman Was Here is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781524778941.
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