| The Evening Road Contributor(s): Hunt, Laird (Author), Johansson, Vanessa (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1478945737 ISBN-13: 9781478945734 Publisher: Little Brown and Company OUR PRICE: $90.89 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
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| Publisher Description: Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw, a startling, challenging beauty in small-town Indiana. Quick of mind, she navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and on one day in the summer of 1920, an odyssey across the countryside to witness a dark and fearful celebration.Meet Calla Destry, a young black woman desperate to escape the violence of her town, and to find the lover who has promised her a new life. Every road leads to the bedlam of Marvel, and on it lives will collide and be changed forever.Reminiscent of the works of Louise Erdrich, Edward P. Jones and Marilynn Robinson, The Evening Road is the story of two remarkable women on the move through an America riven by fear and hatred, and eager to flee the secrets they have left behind. |
Contributor Bio(s): Johansson, Vanessa: - Vanessa Johansson is a film and theater actress and voice-over artist who graduated from Carnegie Mellon and later trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. She has narrated many audiobooks and won an AudioFile Earphones Award. Hunt, Laird: -Laird Hunt is the award-winning author of a book of short stories, mock parables and histories, The Paris Stories, and several novels including The Impossibly; Indiana, Indiana; The Exquisite; Ray of the Star; and Kind One, which was a finalist for both the 2013 Pen/Faulkner Award and the 2013 Pen USA Literary Award in Fiction, and the winner of a 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction. His writings, reviews, and translations have appeared in the United States and abroad in, among other places, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, McSweeney's, Ploughshares, Bomb, and Bookforum. Currently on faculty in the University of Denver's Creative Writing Program, where he edits the Denver Quarterly, he and his wife, the poet Eleni Sikelianos, live in Boulder, Colorado, with their daughter, Eva Grace. |