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The Blizzard Party: A Novel Audiobook
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A panoramic novel set in New York City during the catastrophic blizzard of February 1978
On the night of February 6, 1978, a catastrophic nor'easter struck the city of New York. On that night, in a penthouse in the Upper West Side’s stately Apelles, a crowd gathered for a wild party. And on that night, Mr. Albert Haynes Caldwell―a partner emeritus at Swank, Brady & Plescher; Harvard class of '26; father of three; widower; atheist; and fiscal conservative―hatched a plan to fake a medical emergency and toss himself into the Hudson River, where he would drown.
In the eye of this storm: Hazel Saltwater, age six. The strange events of that night irrevocably altered many lives, but none more than hers. The Blizzard Party is Hazel’s reconstruction of that night, an exploration of love, language, conspiracy, auditory time travel, and life after death.
Cinematic, with a vast cast of characters and a historical scope that spans WWII Poland, the lives of rich and powerful Manhattanites in the late 1970’s, and the enduring effects of 9/11, The Blizzard Party is an epic novel in the form of a final farewell.
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“This audiobook has it all—mystery, mayhem, and sci-fi in a story that flashes forward and back as it revels in the lost world of late 1970s Manhattan. Narrator Rebecca Lowman presents the many complex characters at just the right pace…in this complex and metaphor-rich story.”
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“A raucously inventive tale of loss and erasure told with an authorial assurance…This rollickingly bleak rendering of 1970s New York is well worth a visit.”
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“Sprawling, discursive, loose-limbed (and impressive)…Livings’s nearest model may be the doorstop-sized novels of Tom Wolfe.”
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“Features moments of brilliance, especially in the dialogue and the surprising connections. A literary feast.”
— Booklist
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About Jack Livings
Jack Livings is author of The Blizzard Party and The Dog. The Dog was named a Best Book of the Year by the Times Literary Supplement, was awarded the 2015 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut fiction, and was included in New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani’s list of favorite books of 2014. His stories have appeared in A Public Space, The Paris Review, StoryQuarterly, Tin House, The New Delta Review, Guernica, and Best American Short Stories and have been awarded two Pushcart Prizes. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford.
About Rebecca Lowman
Rebecca Lowman is an actress and audiobook narrator who has won numerous Earphones Awards. She has starred in numerous television shows, including Law & Order, Big Love, NCIS, and Grey’s Anatomy, among many others. She earned her MFA from Columbia University.