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Finding Caruso Audiobook
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Publisher Description
Kim Barnes is an award-winning memoirist, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and a poet whose works have appeared in many literary magazines. In Finding Caruso, she creates an unforgettable novel of two brothers and the complex ties that bind them. Alternately dark and violent, heartbreaking and tender, it is a coming-of-age tale that is both timeless and contemporary.
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"I absolutely loved this book from start to finish. The story is sweet, moving, poignant, terribly bittersweet, and the writing moved me to tears at times. "
— Paula (5 out of 5 stars)
Finding Caruso Listener Reviews
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" I absolutely loved this book from start to finish. The story is sweet, moving, poignant, terribly bittersweet, and the writing moved me to tears at times. "
— Paula, 7/13/2013 -
" Liked the swimming in the Clearwater, but the drunken violence was a bit unsetteling no matter how true. "
— Mary, 5/7/2013 -
" Relationship between two brothers. Some interesting moments, not very good overall. "
— Alicia, 6/16/2012 -
" Intriguing. Kim's writing tends to leave me feeling empty, that I've lost part of myself along the way, and they always seem to end on a sad note. That said, it was an interesting story line that pulls you in. "
— Joneetha, 2/4/2012 -
" I did not like the book very much, but I loved the cover(way to go, Mr. Mason! nice photo!) "
— Mary, 1/16/2011 -
" Beautifully written and realized. Bittersweet, yes. But in all the ways I admire. Barnes is a dazzling rare bird--great at fiction and memoir. Brava. "
— Alyson, 11/8/2010 -
" Great prose,enjoyed this read. "
— Jean, 10/4/2010 -
" Beautifully written - this is a favorite that I keep coming back to. "
— Patricia, 4/10/2010 -
" Intriguing. Kim's writing tends to leave me feeling empty, that I've lost part of myself along the way, and they always seem to end on a sad note. That said, it was an interesting story line that pulls you in. "
— Joni, 1/16/2010 -
" Liked the swimming in the Clearwater, but the drunken violence was a bit unsetteling no matter how true. "
— Mary, 7/21/2009 -
" Beautifully written - this is a favorite that I keep coming back to. "
— Patricia, 6/8/2009
About Kim Barnes
Kim Barnes is the author of two memoirs and two previous novels, including A Country Called Home, which received the 2009 PEN Center USA Literary Award in fiction and was named a best book of 2008 by the Washington Post, the Kansas City Star, and the Oregonian. She is the recipient of the PEN/Jerard Fund Award for an emerging woman writer of nonfiction, and her first memoir, In the Wilderness, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in a number of publications and anthologies, including the New York Times; MORE magazine; O Magazine; Good Housekeeping; Fourth Genre; The Georgia Review; Shenandoah; and the Pushcart Prize anthology. Barnes is a professor of writing at the University of Idaho and lives with her husband, the poet Robert Wrigley, on Moscow Mountain.
About Scott Shina
Scott Shina is the narrator of such audiobooks as The Kid Who Became President by Dan Gutman and Finding Caruso by Kim Barnes.