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Mountain Road, Late at Night
- Author
- Alan Rossi
- Narrator
- Davis Brooks
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 6 February 2020
- Run Time
- 7 hours 14 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
'Through sharply drawn characters, Rossi achieves a clear-eyed and poignant view of a family in crisis' - Sydney Morning Herald
A fatal car crash. A young boy orphaned. Who should now become his parents?
Nicholas and April are driving home from a party when their car crashes on an empty road high up in the Blue Ridge Mountains. As they lay on the roadside slowly dying, their four-year-old son, Jack, waits for them at home. In the days after their deaths, their grieving relatives begin to descend on the family home. There, they are forced to decide who will care for the child Nicholas and April left behind. Nicholas’s brother Nathaniel and his wife Stefanie aren’t ready to be parents, but Nicholas’s mother and father have issues of their own. And April’s mother Tammy is driving across the country to claim her grandson.
Spanning a few traumatic days in the minds of each family member, Mountain Road, Late at Night, is a masterly portrait of grief, the pain of sudden loss and a family in utter crisis. Gripping, affecting and extremely accomplished, Alan Rossi's unforgettable debut asks one crucial question: what do you do when the worst happens?
Critics Review
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An extraordinary debut for an extraordinary new talent
Frederick Barthelme, author of There Must Be Some Mistake
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Compassionate and profound, this is the kind of novel that puts even difficult things into perspective
Isabel Costello, The Literary Sofa
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Through sharply drawn characters, Rossi achieves a clear-eyed and poignant view of a family in crisis
Sydney Morning Herald
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Gripping
Happy Mag
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A minor miracle . . . a deeply compelling novel
David Shields, author of Salinger
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Details
- Author
- Alan Rossi
- Narrator
- Davis Brooks
- Duration
- 7 hours 14 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 February 2020
- ISBN
- 9781529002560
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Family life fiction / Stories about family, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss
Synopsis
'Through sharply drawn characters, Rossi achieves a clear-eyed and poignant view of a family in crisis' - Sydney Morning HeraldA fatal car crash. A young boy orphaned. Who should now become his parents?Nicholas and April are driving home from a party when their car crashes on an empty road high up in the Blue Ridge Mountains. As they lay on the roadside slowly dying, their four-year-old son, Jack, waits for them at home. In the days after their deaths, their grieving relatives begin to descend on the family home. There, they are forced to decide who will care for the child Nicholas and April left behind. Nicholas’s brother Nathaniel and his wife Stefanie aren’t ready to be parents, but Nicholas’s mother and father have issues of their own. And April’s mother Tammy is driving across the country to claim her grandson. Spanning a few traumatic days in the minds of each family member, Mountain Road, Late at Night, is a masterly portrait of grief, the pain of sudden loss and a family in utter crisis. Gripping, affecting and extremely accomplished, Alan Rossi's unforgettable debut asks one crucial question: what do you do when the worst happens?
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