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F*ckface: And Other Stories Audiobook, by Leah Hampton Play Audiobook Sample

F*ckface: And Other Stories Audiobook

F*ckface: And Other Stories Audiobook, by Leah Hampton Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Sophie Amoss Publisher: Macmillan Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781250755421

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

14

Longest Chapter Length:

53:39 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

27 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

28:02 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

F*ckface is a brassy, bighearted debut collection of twelve short stories about rurality, corpses, honeybee collapse, and illicit sex in post-coal Appalachia. The twelve stories in this knockout collection—some comedic, some tragic, many both at once—examine the interdependence between rural denizens and their environment. A young girl, desperate for a way out of her small town, finds support in an unlikely place. A ranger working along the Blue Ridge Parkway realizes that the dark side of the job, the all too frequent discovery of dead bodies, has taken its toll on her. Haunted by his past, and his future, a tech sergeant reluctantly spends a night with his estranged parents before being deployed to Afghanistan. Nearing fifty and facing new medical problems, a woman wonders if her short stint at the local chemical plant is to blame. A woman takes her husband’s research partner on a day trip to her favorite place on earth, Dollywood, and briefly imagines a different life. In the vein of Bonnie Jo Campbell and Lee Smith, Leah Hampton writes poignantly and honestly about a legendary place that’s rapidly changing. She takes us deep inside the lives of the women and men of Appalachia while navigating the realities of modern life with wit, bite, and heart. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

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“Hampton writes about Appalachia with such sharpness, such clear-eyed compassion. These stories are deceptively simple—a firefighter’s marriage dissolves, a woman meets an old classmate, a beloved coworker quits—until they are not. These stories take you apart slowly, piece by piece, and by the time you realise what’s happening, it’s already too late. The stories are in your blood now. They live in you, with all their strangeness and decay, isolation and comfort, hellscapes and moments of grace.

— Rachel Heng, author of Suicide Club

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  • In a voice firmly grounded and unwavering, Leah Hampton writes with an honesty and authority seldom realized so early in a career. These stories are fully matured, raising big questions, providing no easy answers, and leaving us to linger for more. Hampton has staked her claim as a writer to watch and I for one will not turn away.

    — David Joy, author of The Line That Held Us

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About Sophie Amoss

Sophie Amoss is a voice talent and Earphones Award–winning narrator.