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Originally published in 1968 to critical acclaim, Russell H. Greenan's brilliant, audacious mystery novel It Happened in Boston? quickly became an underground sensation and has emerged over forty years later as a genuine cult classic.
In this breathtakingly imaginative book—now appearing in audio for the first time—we enter the mind of an unnamed artist of prodigious talent and intelligence who is determined to correct the world's wrongs via a direct confrontation with the Almighty, no matter what the consequences. A spellbinding tale told by a memorably unreliable narrator, It Happened in Boston? places you inside a vivid world that brilliantly and surprisingly interweaves art, genius, love, madness, betrayal, God … and murder.
In 2003 It Happened in Boston? was reprinted by the Modern Library with a new introduction by celebrated writer Jonathan Lethem and an afterword by the author, both included in this audio version.
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“His voice is appropriately and frighteningly calm, with a detached kindness and a palpable hint of condescension toward the listener—until the frenetic plunge toward the end, where he seems to vibrate with tension.”
— Locus (audio review)
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“Superbly macabre and satisfying.”
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“It has all the terror and excitement of a Hitchcock thriller.”
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“A book so astonishing that I’ll listen over and again, rewinding whole chapters…Russell Greenan’s It Happened in Boston? is that masterpiece…a startling treasure.”
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“Narrator Fass brings his best to his reading of this appealingly quirky first novel…that pulls the listener gently into his increasingly irrational world.”
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“The main character remains anonymous, but Fass quickly establishes his persona and effectively conveys his edgy emotional state and increasingly bizarre behavior.”
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“It has that most exhilarating of qualities: the power to reawaken our sense of life’s possibilities.”
— Anne Tyler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Breathing Lessons
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About Russell H. Greenan
Russell H. Greenan, born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx, served in the US Navy during World War II before completing his college education at Long Island University in Brooklyn, where he studied world literature. In 1966, while in Nice, France, with his wife and three children, he wrote his first novel, It Happened in Boston?, which was published by Random House in 1968, has been translated into several languages, and was released in a new German translation in 2007. Mr. Greenan’s many other novels include The Secret Life of Algernon Pendleton, Nightmare, and The Bric-a-Brac Man. Though now well into his eighties, he continues to write.
About Robert Fass
Robert Fass is a veteran actor and twice winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. He has earned multiple Earphones Awards and been named in AudioFile magazine’s list of the year’s best narrations for six years.