Brat: An '80s Story Audiobook

Quotes

• “Shrewd storytelling…[with] brutal honesty…a timeless whirl through the surreal Hollywood shuffle."

  — Entertainment Weekly

• “McCarthy’s stories not only offer dishy name-dropping but also near-constant humorous self-deprecation as he looks at his past with the advantages of age and time.”

  — A. V. Club

• “An honest exploration of the highs and lows of being part of the Hollywood crowd."

  — Town & Country

• “The Brat Packer focuses on growing up in New York City in the ’80s, getting candid about lost innocence, and the highs and lows of his rise to fame in Hollywood."

  — CNN

• “Students of acting will appreciate learning about McCarthy’s versions of method acting and his struggles with performing for a camera. Fans of ’80s cinema will love the chance to reminisce.”

  — Library Journal

• “McCarthy’s voice is like a Proustian madeleine that lulled me back to simpler times.”

  — Vulture.com (audio review)

• Soulful and searching . . . McCarthy's prose shines with intelligence and intimacy . . . A long, strange trip on the direction of full-throttle love.

  — Cheryl Strayed, New York Times Book Review

• McCarthy ponders some of the biggest and most frightening questions surrounding intimacy: How does a loner connect? How does a traveler settle down? How do we merge into families without losing ourselves? The answer seems to be that all these things are impossible...and yet somehow we do it anyway. There is much to be learned, and much to be admired, in this elegant, thoughtful story.

  — Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love

• A candid, touching, and often humorous new memoir.

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• Combining the best aspects of Paul Theroux's misanthropy in books like Old Patagonian Express and Elizabeth Gilbert's emotions in Eat, Pray, Love, this book is hard to put down. Bound to be popular, this compelling and honest chronicle will not disappoint readers.

  — Library Journal

• Andrew McCarthy treks from Baltimore to the Amazon, exploring his commitment issues as fearlessly as he scales Mount Kilimanjaro.

  — Elle

• Brave and moving. . . McCarthy's keen sense of scene and storytelling ignites his accounts...[t]hreaded with an exemplary vulnerability and propelled by a candid exploration of his own life's frailties.

  — National Geographic

• This is not some memoir written by an actor who fancies himself a world traveler. McCarthy really is a world traveler - and a damned fine writer, too...To readers who think, "Andrew McCarthy? Really?" the answer is a resounding and emphatic yes. Really.

  — Booklist

• Rarely have I seen the male psyche explored with such honesty and vulnerability. This is the story of a son, a father, a brother, a husband, a man who finds the courage not only to face himself, but to reveal himself, and, in so doing, illuminates something about what it is to be human, fully alive, and awake.

  — Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion

• It's hard to write books that are both adventurous and touching, but Andrew McCarthy manages to pull it off and more! A smart, valuable book.

  — Gary Shteyngart, bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Absurdistan