Lookaway, Lookaway: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Lookaway, Lookaway is a wild romp through the South, and therefore the history of our nation, written by an absolute ringmaster of fiction. Wilton Barnhardt is back baby, and he’s coming at you with everything he’s got.”

  — Alice Sebold, New York Times bestselling author of The Lovely Bones

• “Wilton Barnhardt’s touching, often laugh-out-loud funny Lookaway, Lookaway probes the history of a clan so mired in Southern tradition even the darkest family secrets cannot knock them from their high-class pedestals. Barnhardt’s large, ambitious novel covers everything from date rape to racism to religion, but never makes the characters feel distant or undeveloped.”

  — Shelf Awareness

• “Sprawling, generous, delightful…I didn’t want it to end. Lookaway is both dishy and literary, but like all good novels, there’s a nourishing quality as well.”

  — Charlotte Observer

• “Hilarious, expertly drawn…Scathing yet touching, this is a delicious saga of Old South meets New, a story of America lurching toward the future.”

  — People (4 stars)

• “Scott Shepherd's performance does what no printed page can, eloquently immersing the listener in the harsh truths that Barnhardt's characters must face.

  — AudioFile Magazine

• Narrator Scott Shepherd conjures this rich cast with distinctive voices.

  — The Chicago Tribune

• Narrated brilliantly by North Carolina native Scott Shepherd, who gives all of the characters distinctive voices with perfect inflections and tones. This engaging, inventive romp into the rise and fall of an eclectic Southern family is a must listen for fans of Southern literature and dark family sagas.

  — Library Journal, starred review

• Irresistable listening.

  — Winston-Salem Journal

• “Writing with brilliance and brio, Wilton Barnhardt has penned a hilarious satire which often has surprising depth and hits way too close to the truth.”

  — Lee Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Oral History and The Last Girls

• “Wilton Barnhardt is a masterful storyteller, and Lookaway, Lookaway is high comedy at its brilliant best.”

  — Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Backseat Saints

• “Rich and genuinely hilarious, expressed with a dangerous level of humor and pain. Lookaway, Lookaway is entirely remarkable.”

  — Mark Childress, New York Times bestselling author of Georgia Bottoms

• “A fresh and innovative take on the traditional family saga…The new Barnhardt goes down smooth and delivers with a kick.”

  — Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club

• “Lookaway, Lookaway is an often humorous, sometimes unsettling, ultimately poignant romp through a ‘new’ South still reluctant to let go of its past. Barnhardt’s novel earns a place on the bookshelf between J. K. Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces and Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons.”

  — Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author of The Cove

• “A dishier array of secrets animates Lookaway, Lookaway, Wilton Barnhardt’s big, enveloping novel about a status-conscious North Carolina family.”

  — New York Times

• “Dixieland was never so dishy nor dysfunctional as in Barnhardt’s ribald send-up of the conflagration that ensues when Old South tradition confronts New South tackiness…Barnhardt’s satirical scorching of southern culture comes in second only to Sherman’s fiery march.”

  — Booklist

• “Barnhardt’s fourth novel is a revelation: witty, savage, and bighearted all at once, it is the Southern novel for the twenty-first century.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “It’s a delicious romp with a dysfunctional Southern Family—is there any other kind in literature?…Narrator Scott Shepherd conjures [the] rich cast with distinctive voices.”

  — Chicago Tribune