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The Dead Do Not Improve audiobook

  • By: Jay Caspian Kang
  • Narrator: Feodor Chin
  • Category: Fiction, Literary
  • Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
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The Dead Do Not Improve Audiobook Summary

Hailed as The Awl’s 2012’s novel to anticipate, this glorious debut stars hippie detectives, a singular city, and an MFA student on the run.
 
      On a residential Bay Area block struggling with the collision of gentrifier condos and longtime residents, stymied recent MFA grad Philip Kim is sleeping the night away when bullets fly through a window in his apartment building and end up killing one of his neighbors. Philip only learns about the murder the next day when bored and Googling himself. But when he gets caught up in the investigation and becomes the focus of an elaborate, violent scheme, he will learn far more than he ever wanted to about his former four-eggs-at-a-time borrowing neighbor Dolores Stone, aka “The Grey Beaver,” and her shocking connections to an underworld only a city like this one could create.
      Siddhartha “Sid” Finch, a homicide detective bitter about everything except his gorgeous wife, and his phlegmatic, pock-marked partner Jim Kim, land the case. Sid and Jim race after Philip through a menacing, unknowable San Francisco fending off militant surfers, vaguely European cafes, and aggressive Advanced Creative Writing students as they all try to figure out just who’s causing trouble in this city they love to hate. 
      Exceedingly unique, pulsing with vigor and heart, and loaded with fierce, fresh language, The Dead Do Not Improve confirms Jay Caspian Kang as a true American original as obsessed with surfing and surviving as with the power of unforgettable storytelling.

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Narrator Feodor Chin
Length 6 hours 44 minutes
Author Jay Caspian Kang
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date May 01, 2024
ISBN 9780449011218

Subjects

The publisher of the The Dead Do Not Improve is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: literary, fiction, satire, black humor, dark, funny, comic, vice news, journalist, noir, debut novel, detective, murder, mystery, crime, thriller, literary fiction, thrillers, suspense, crime fiction, mystery thriller suspense, thriller books, betrayal, crime novels, crime books, suspense books, novels, fiction books, mysteries and thrillers, collusion, literature, books fiction, realistic fiction books, suspense thriller books, mystery and thriller, suspense fiction, drugs, americana, comedy, american literature, revenge, Fiction, Literary, Fiction, Crime, Fiction, Thrillers, Suspense The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary

Additional info

The publisher of the The Dead Do Not Improve is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780449011218.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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