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It Happened in Boston?
- Author
- Russell H. Greenan
- Narrator
- Robert Fass
- Publish Date
- 17 December 2014
- Run Time
- 10 hours 52 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Originally published in 1968 to critical acclaim, Russell H. Greenan's brilliant, audacious mystery novel It Happened in Boston? quickly became an underground sensation and has emerged over forty years later as a genuine cult classic.
In this breathtakingly imaginative book—now appearing in audio for the first time—we enter the mind of an unnamed artist of prodigious talent and intelligence who is determined to correct the world's wrongs via a direct confrontation with the Almighty, no matter what the consequences. A spellbinding tale told by a memorably unreliable narrator, It Happened in Boston? places you inside a vivid world that brilliantly and surprisingly interweaves art, genius, love, madness, betrayal, God … and murder.
In 2003 It Happened in Boston? was reprinted by the Modern Library with a new introduction by celebrated writer Jonathan Lethem and an afterword by the author, both included in this audio version.
Cover design by Zoe Ann Lee
Critics Review
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“Superbly macabre and satisfying.”
New York Times
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“It has all the terror and excitement of a Hitchcock thriller.”
Boston Sunday Globe
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“A book so astonishing that I’ll listen over and again, rewinding whole chapters…Russell Greenan’s It Happened in Boston? is that masterpiece…a startling treasure.”
BookandFilmGlobe.com
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“His voice is appropriately and frighteningly calm, with a detached kindness and a palpable hint of condescension toward the listener—until the frenetic plunge toward the end, where he seems to vibrate with tension.”
Locus (audio review)
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“Narrator Fass brings his best to his reading of this appealingly quirky first novel…that pulls the listener gently into his increasingly irrational world.”
Publishers Weekly (audio review)
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“The main character remains anonymous, but Fass quickly establishes his persona and effectively conveys his edgy emotional state and increasingly bizarre behavior.”
AudioFile
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“It has that most exhilarating of qualities: the power to reawaken our sense of life’s possibilities.”
Anne Tyler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Breathing Lessons
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Details
- Author
- Russell H. Greenan
- Narrator
- Robert Fass
- Duration
- 10 hours 52 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 December 2014
- ISBN
- 9781481515207
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction
Synopsis
Originally published in 1968 to critical acclaim, Russell H. Greenan's brilliant, audacious mystery novel It Happened in Boston? quickly became an underground sensation and has emerged over forty years later as a genuine cult classic. In this breathtakingly imaginative book—now appearing in audio for the first time—we enter the mind of an unnamed artist of prodigious talent and intelligence who is determined to correct the world's wrongs via a direct confrontation with the Almighty, no matter what the consequences. A spellbinding tale told by a memorably unreliable narrator, It Happened in Boston? places you inside a vivid world that brilliantly and surprisingly interweaves art, genius, love, madness, betrayal, God … and murder.In 2003 IHIB? was reprinted by the Modern Library with a new introduction by celebrated writer Jonathan Lethem and an afterword by the author, both included in this audio version.Cover design by Zo├½ Ann Lee
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