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A Novel
Narrator
Stefan Rudnicki
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Length
12 hours 4 minutes
Language
English
Ray Shackleford is trying to deal with the death of his father and the collapse of his marriage when the impossible happens: music that no one has ever heard before begins to play from his stereo speakers. It is only the first step on a journey that will take him to Los Angeles, London, Cozumel, and points far beyond, and that will bring him face to face with Jim Morrison, Brian Wilson, Jimi Hendrix—and his own mortality.
Lewis Shiner is the award-winning author of the novels Dark Tangos, Say Goodbye, and Glimpses, among others. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.
Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than three thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.
Reviews
“Almost no one can approach Shiner’s mastery in capturing the experience of listening to a brilliant song…Even more, the skillful way that Shiner weaves the music into the stories of Ray and the world around him makes them into an inseparable, twined-together braid, a chord of emotion and tension that has moments of heartbreak, joy, and even terror…Rudnicki gave a beautiful performance, full of passion and understanding for the text, and the source material is just so good. If you love rock and roll, fantasy, science fiction, and/or audiobooks, I recommend this to you without reservation.”
“A psychedelic odyssey…soars on the escapist wings of a re-created era.”
“A pop-music fairy tale linking the Beatles to Bruno Bettelheim.”
“I hesitate to call a book ‘important,’ but this may well be that…I found it deeply satisfying.”
“Shiner writes with intense feeling…The novel sparkles…A story of uncommon sensitivity, insight, and redemptive power.”
“Powerfully affecting. Much more than yuppie reunions like The Big Chill, this captures a generation’s sweet, desperate yearning for the 60s.”
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