| Back Roads Contributor(s): O'Dell, Tawni (Author), Eiden, Andrew (Read by) |
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ISBN: 150461853X ISBN-13: 9781504618533 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: August 2015 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
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| Publisher Description: Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life is.With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and the fiery, aggressive libido of a teenager. Just nineteen years old, he's marooned in the Pennsylvania backwoods caring for his three younger sisters, whose feelings about him range from stifling dependence to loathing. And once he develops an obsession with the sexy, melancholic mother of two living down the road, those Victoria's Secret catalogs just won't do the trick anymore. He wants Callie Mercer so badly he fears he will explode. But it's the family secrets, the lies, and the unspoken truths that light the fuse and erupt into a series of staggering surprises, leaving what's left of his family in tatters. Through every ordeal, the unforgettable Harley could never know that his endearing humor, his love for his sisters, and his bumbling heroics would redeem them all.Funny and heartbreaking, Tawni O'Dell's pitch-perfect characters capture the maddening confusion of adolescence and the prickly nature of family with irony and unerring honesty. Back Roads is a riveting novel by a formidable talent. |
Contributor Bio(s): O'Dell, Tawni: - Tawni O'Dell is the New York Times bestselling author of Sister Mine, Coal Run, and Back Roads, which was an Oprah's Book Club selection and a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection. Eiden, Andrew: -Andrew Eiden is an actor and five-time winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award for his audio narrations. Hehas been acting since the age of four, working at regional theaters including La Mirada Theatre, the Glendale Center Theatre, and the Pasadena Playhouse. He has starred in dozens of national commercials, guest-spotted on numerous television shows, and has been a series regular on three programs: Discovery Channel's Outward Bound, Disney Channel's Movie Surfers, and most notably ABC's Complete Savages. Finding a true passion for audiobooks in 2010, Andrew has worked on nearly two hundred titles, over thirty of which he has lent his voice to. |