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The Boy Who Went Away: A Novel Audiobook, by Eli Gottlieb Play Audiobook Sample

The Boy Who Went Away: A Novel Audiobook

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Read By: Chris Patton Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2015 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781504659055

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

25

Longest Chapter Length:

29:52 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

08:08 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

15:37 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

Winner of the American Academy’s Rome Prize for fiction, The Boy Who Went Away is Eli Gottlieb’s tender, harrowing coming-of-age novel.

For Denny Graubert, the chaotic summer of 1967—when the screams of napalm bombs on the nightly news drowned the cheers of the All-Star game—brings the painful realization that childhood has passed. While engaging in his favorite domestic spying game, Denny unwittingly discovers the desperate measures his mother will take to save his autistic older brother, Fad, who is lost in the diagnostic Dark Ages of Austism. At the heart of this novel is not only the story of Denny’s coltish entrance to adolescence, but also that of his relationship with Fad, which will be forever changed during the course of that summer. The Boy Who Went Away is the cruelly antic, heartrending story of two childhoods that would, by fall’s arrival, be irretrievably lost.

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“Gottlieb records the utterly confounding and inevitable plunge into adulthood with bold clarity. He depicts the spoken and unspoken language of cruelty and love in a family with confidence and poetry. But he is at his very best in the freshness of his imagery, creating a world so vivid and memorable the reader finds all five senses delightfully engaged in experiencing it.”

— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Quotes

  • “Beautiful for its compassion and insights.”

    — Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
  • “This intense coming-of-age novel oozes with allusions to late-1960s politics and culture.”

    — Booklist
  • “A first novel about dysfunctional family life and coming of age in suburbia that relies on careful writing and a sly wit to distinguish itself from other narratives in this most contemporary of genres…Gottlieb allows his story to find its proper length—which is short—and builds to the right emotional crescendo. A fine little book.”

    — Kirkus Reviews
  • “Eli Gottlieb is an enthralling stylist whose characters are shockingly, electrically alive.”

    — Phillip Lopate, author of Confessions of Summer

Awards

  • A New York Times Book Review Book of the Year

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About Eli Gottlieb

Eli Gottlieb is the author of Best Boy, among other novels. His works have been translated into a dozen languages. He lives in New York City.

About Chris Patton

Chris Patton has narrated over seventy-five audiobooks. His voice can be heard narrating such titles as Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, the dystopian juggernaut Yesterday’s Gone, Clive Barker’s Books of Blood series, and two titles by Joyce Carol Oates. Chris began his career in theater at age ten, and his voice-over career at twenty-nine. Since then, he has voiced over two hundred anime titles, numerous commercials and e-learning and industrial projects, and several video games. He’s also fronted a synthpop band called Paul Lynde Is Dead, written a teen urban fantasy about an emo vampire called Scene Immortal, and has appeared as a special guest at more than eighty-five pop-culture conventions.