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The Fortunate Ones audiobook

  • By: Ed Tarkington
  • Narrator: MacLeod Andrews
  • Category: Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio
  • Publish date: January 05, 2021
  • Language: English
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The Fortunate Ones Audiobook Summary

The perfect read for fans of The White Lotus or Succession

“As a novelist, Tarkington is the real deal. I can’t wait to see this story reach a wide audience.”

–Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife

When Charlie Boykin was young, he thought his life with his single mother on the working-class side of Nashville was perfectly fine. But when his mother arranges for him to be admitted as a scholarship student to an elite private school, he is suddenly introduced to what the world can feel like to someone cushioned by money. That world, he discovers, is an almost irresistible place where one can bend–and break–rules and still end up untarnished. As he gets drawn into a friendship with a charismatic upperclassman, Archer Creigh, and an affluent family that treats him like an adopted son, Charlie quickly adapts to life in the upper echelons of Nashville society. Under their charming and alcohol-soaked spell, how can he not relax and enjoy it all–the lack of anxiety over money, the easy summers spent poolside at perfectly appointed mansions, the lavish parties, the freedom to make mistakes knowing that everything can be glossed over or fixed?

But over time, Charlie is increasingly pulled into covering for Archer’s constant deceits and his casual bigotry. At what point will the attraction of wealth and prestige wear off enough for Charlie to take a stand–and will he?

For readers of Wiley Cash, Ann Patchett, and Pat Conroy, The Fortunate Ones is an immersive, elegantly written story that conveys both the seductiveness of this world and the corruption of the people who see their ascent to the top as their birthright.

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Narrator MacLeod Andrews
Length 7 hours 44 minutes
Author Ed Tarkington
Category
Publisher Hachette Audio
Release date January 05, 2021
ISBN 9781649040237

Subjects

The publisher of the The Fortunate Ones is Hachette Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Coming of Age, Fiction

Additional info

The publisher of the The Fortunate Ones is Hachette Audio. The imprint is Algonquin Books. It is supplied by Hachette Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781649040237.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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