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Make Me a City: A Novel Audiobook, by Jonathan Carr Play Audiobook Sample

Make Me a City: A Novel Audiobook

Make Me a City: A Novel Audiobook, by Jonathan Carr Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Fred Berman Publisher: Macmillan Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 10.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 8.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2019 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781250318602

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

40

Longest Chapter Length:

60:31 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

28 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

24:27 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

A propulsive debut of visionary scale, Make Me a City embroiders fact with fiction to tell the story of Chicago's 19th century, tracing its rise from frontier settlement to industrial colossus. The tale begins with a game of chess—and on the outcome of that game hinges the destiny of a great city. From appalling injustice springs forth the story of Chicago, and the men and women whose resilience, avarice, and altruism combine to generate a moment of unprecedented civic energy. A variety of irresistible voices deliver the many strands of this novel: those of Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable, the long-unheralded founder of Chicago; John Stephen Wright, bombastic speculator and booster; and Antje Hunter, the first woman to report for the Chicago Tribune. The stories of loggers, miners, engineers, and educators teem around them and each claim the narrative in turns, sharing their grief as well as their delight. As the characters, and their ancestors, meet and part, as their possessions pass from hand to hand, the listener realizes that Jonathan Carr commands a grand picture, one that encompasses the heartaches of everyday lives as well as the overarching ideals of what a city and a society can and should be. Make Me a City introduces us to a novelist whose talent and ambition are already fully formed.

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“A thrillingly ambitious and ingeniously accomplished first novel. This is a stunning debut by a new and instantly important literary voice.”

— Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

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About Fred Berman

Fred Berman has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. He is an actor of theater, film, and television whose credits include Broadway’s The Lion King, Law & Order, and Directing Eddie, among others. He was featured in Entertainment Weekly for his work on the Walking Dead audiobook series.