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All That Follows: A Novel Audiobook
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The prodigiously talented Jim Crace has returned with a new novel that explores the complexities of love and violence with a scenario that juxtaposes humor and human aspiration. British jazzman Leonard Lessing spent a memorable yet unsuccessful few days in Austin, Texas, trying to seduce a woman he fancied. During his stay, he became caught up in her messy life, which included a new lover, a charismatic but carelessly violent man named Maxie. Eighteen years later, Maxie enters Leonard’s life again, but this time in England, where he is armed and holding hostages. Leonard must decide whether to sit silently by as the standoff unfolds or find the courage to go to the crime scene where he could potentially save lives. The lives of two mothers and two daughters—all strikingly independent and spirited—hang in the balance. Set in Texas and the suburbs of England, All That Follows is a novel in which tender, unheroic moments triumph over the more strident and aggressive facets of our age. It also provides moving and surprising insights into the conflict between our private and public lives and redefines heroism in this new century. It is a masterful work from one of Britain’s brightest literary lights.
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"A revolutionary-want-to-be who looms larger in his own mind, lacks courage to act until he becomes entangled in a hostage taking due to his own bravado. Lovely exploration of love and self. "
— Jackie (4 out of 5 stars)
All That Follows Listener Reviews
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" Characters had no redeeming values. Leaves you not really caring what happens in the story. "
— Richard, 9/30/2013 -
" Tried hard to like this one, but found it too hard to connect with the characters. Author trying too hard to be profound and introspective "
— Anne, 9/10/2013 -
" Didn't like it; couldn't finish "
— Cam, 7/24/2013 -
" Good, but not my favorite Jim Crace. Preferred Being Dead and Arcadia. "
— Chris, 5/29/2013 -
" I usually really like this author, but this book was not very good. I really did not like the characters. Or the plot, for that matter. "
— Bethspin, 2/2/2013 -
" Won in first-reads program and it never arrived. "
— Christy, 1/5/2013 -
" I didn't connect to the main characters, and the plot was too contrived for my taste. "
— Christa, 12/27/2012 -
" Jim Crace, never ever disappoints. "
— Paige, 4/25/2012 -
" I have no idea what the point of this. I think it is supposed to be about the relationship between mothers and daughters but it would have been better to not have the primary character be a guy in that case. Pretty weak. "
— Wendy, 1/20/2011 -
" A revolutionary-want-to-be who looms larger in his own mind, lacks courage to act until he becomes entangled in a hostage taking due to his own bravado. Lovely exploration of love and self. "
— Jackie, 11/19/2010 -
" A little too much playing around on the author's part. Several strands in the plot, but none of them terribly well developed, and the relationships came accross as a little to glib. Not a terrible novel, but not a particularly good one either. "
— Chris, 10/23/2010 -
" Two cheers for the hero - a complete picture of timidity. I found him very appealing and wished that everyone could be nicer to him especially his wife. The plot was rather lukewarm though and I was rather disappointed with some of the writing - I had expected more. "
— Diana, 8/6/2010 -
" Characters had no redeeming values. Leaves you not really caring what happens in the story. "
— Richard, 7/16/2010 -
" Won in first-reads program and it never arrived. "
— Christy, 6/25/2010
About Jim Crace
Jim Crace is the author of over ten novels. Being Dead was shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread Fiction Prize and won the US National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2000. In 1997, Quarantine was named the Whitbread Novel of the Year and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Crace has also received the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Guardian Fiction Prize. He lives in Birmingham, England.
About Maxwell Caulfield
Maxwell Caulfield is a film, stage, and television actor best known for his roles as Michael Carrington in the 1982 film Grease 2 and Miles Colby in the television shows The Colbys and Dynasty. His other acting credits include the films Gettysburg, The Real Blonde, and Emmerdale. He has won six AudioFile Earphones Awards.