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Frank Bascombe Audiobook Series

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    The Sportswriter

    by Richard Ford ...
    Narrated by Richard Poe ...
    Series series Frank Bascombe

    Unabridged

    14 hours 47 min

    In this “powerful” blockbuster of a novel (The New York Times), the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Independence Day introduces his most beloved character, failed novelist turned sportswriter Frank Bascombe, during an Easter weekend, as he moves through the great losses of his life.As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people—men, mostly—who live entirely wi... ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Independence Day

    by Richard Ford ...
    Narrated by Richard Poe ...
    Series series Frank Bascombe

    Unabridged

    20 hours 23 min

    Hailed as a major American novel, Independence Day is a relentlessly thoughtful, heart-wrenching, yet hilarious portrait of an ordinary American man. Wickedly realistic details and dialog entice you to see modern life filtered through the first-person narrator's complex and evolving consciousness. Apparently directionless since his divorce, Frank Bascombe migrates from one non-committal ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Lay of the Land

    by Richard Ford ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Bascombe Trilogy

    Unabridged

    24 hours 52 min

    BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author.With The Sportswriter, in 1985, Richard Ford began a cycle of novels that ten years later – after Independence Day won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award – was hailed by The Times of London as “an extraordinary epic [that] is nothing less than the story of the twentieth century itself.”Frank Bascombe’s story resumes, in the fall of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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    Let Me Be Frank With You

    A Frank Bascombe Book

    by Richard Ford ...
    Narrated by Richard Poe ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 23 min

    Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land.In his trio of world-acclaimed novels portraying the life of an entire ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Elsewhere

    A memoir

    by Richard Russo ...
    Narrated by Richard Russo ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 32 min

    After eight commanding works of fiction, the Pulitzer Prize winner now turns to memoir in a hilarious, moving, and always surprising account of his life, his parents, and the upstate New York town they all struggled variously to escape.Anyone familiar with Richard Russo's acclaimed novels will recognize Gloversville once famous for producing that eponymous product and anything else made of leather ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Rabbit, Run

    by John Updike ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Rabbit

    Unabridged

    12 hours 5 min

    **“A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.”—***Kansas City StarRabbit, Run* is the book thatestablished John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Netherland

    by Joseph O'Neill ...
    Narrated by Jefferson Mays ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 33 min

    In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans-a banker originally from the Netherlands-finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    American Rust

    by Philipp Meyer ...
    Narrated by Tom Stechschulte ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 49 min

    Author Philipp Meyer presents his astounding debut American Rust—a powerful, morally complex novel of two friends struggling to face an uncertain future in a crumbling western Pennsylvania steel town.Twenty-year-old Isaac feels trapped by circumstance after his mother’s suicide and his genius older sister’s departure to Yale. His best and only friend Poe is a high school football hero who made ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Through Black Spruce

    by Joseph Boyden ...
    Narrated by James Jenner, Ali Ahn ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 20 min

    Joseph Boyden's first novel, Three Day Road, was a Today Show Book Club selection. Through Black Spruce is the exceptional follow-up to his acclaimed debut. Cree bush pilot Will Bird lies comatose in a hospital, while his wayward niece Annie arrives to sit in silent vigil by his side. Slowly their stories reveal two people previously separated by great distances, beaten and broken, and searching ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Seating Arrangements

    by Maggie Shipstead ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 8 min

    Maggie Shipstead’s irresistible social satire, set on an exclusive New England island over a wedding weekend in June, provides a deliciously biting glimpse into the lives of the well-bred and ill-behaved.Winn Van Meter is heading for his family’s retreat on the pristine New England island of Waskeke. Normally a haven of calm, for the next three days this sanctuary will be overrun by tipsy revelers ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Quicksand

    by Steve Toltz ...
    Narrated by Joel Davey ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 37 min

    Perfect for fans of Dave Eggers, Martin Amis, and David Foster Wallace, this fearlessly funny, outrageously inventive dark comedy about two lifelong friends—one a failed-writer-turned-reluctant-cop, the other an unlucky criminal—is “a delightful literary novel” (Psychology Today) from Man Booker Prize finalist Steve Toltz.Liam is a struggling writer and a failing cop. Aldo, his best friend and ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    May We Be Forgiven

    by A.M. Homes ...
    Narrated by Andy Paris ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 44 min

    A.M. Homes is acclaimed for her unnerving looks at suburban life in such searing works as The Safety of Objects, Jack, and Music for Torching. May We Be Forgiven stars Harold Silver, a historian who's always been jealous of his successful brother, George. But when the hot-tempered George is institutionalized for committing a violent act, Harold finds himself comforting his brother's wife and ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus