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The Heavenly Table: A Novel Audiobook
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From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors. It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his three young sons: Cane (the eldest; handsome; intelligent); Cob (short; heavy set; a bit slow); and Chimney (the youngest; thin; ill-tempered). Several hundred miles away in southern Ohio, a farmer by the name of Ellsworth Fiddler lives with his son, Eddie, and his wife, Eula. After Ellsworth is swindled out of his family's entire fortune, his life is put on a surprising, unforgettable, and violent trajectory that will directly lead him to cross paths with the Jewetts. No good can come of it. Or can it? In the gothic tradition of Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy with a healthy dose of cinematic violence reminiscent of Sam Peckinpah, Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers, the Jewetts and the Fiddlers will find their lives colliding in increasingly dark and horrific ways, placing Donald Ray Pollock firmly in the company of the genre's literary masters.
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“This is one of those gritty audiobooks…vividly brought to life by narrator Kirby Heyborne…The prose is beautifully constructed, often hilarious, and digressive without being showy, and Heyborne’s low-key narration keeps the storytelling grounded throughout the scenes of cruelty and chaos. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“Wild, rollicking, and wonderfully vulgar…An old-fashioned yarn…[and] also a riotous satire that takes on our hopeless faith in modernity, along with our endless capacity for cruelty and absurd pretension.”
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“With furious prose and a Faulknerian eye for character, Pollock populates his second novel with dozens of memorable people who embody America’s headlong leap toward the future in the early twentieth century.”
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“Standard rural gothic, full of bright-hued mayhem and scatological wit, but Pollock brings way more flair and invention to the enterprise than most writers could. A darkly comic gorefest by a gifted writer.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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A Publishers Weekly Pick for Best Summer Reads of 2016
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An Indie Next List Pick for July 2016
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New York Times Editor’s Choice
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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About Donald Ray Pollock
Donald Ray Pollock, recipient of the 2009 PEN/Bingham Fellowship, made his literary debut in 2008 with the critically acclaimed story collection, Knockemstiff. He worked as a laborer at the Mead Paper Mill in Chillicothe, Ohio, from 1973 to 2005. He holds an MFA from Ohio State University. His work has appeared in, among other publications, Epoch, Granta, and the New York Times.
About Kirby Heyborne
Kirby Heyborne is a musician, actor, and professional narrator. Noted for his work in teen and juvenile audio, he has garnered over twenty Earphones Awards. His audiobook credits include Jesse Kellerman’s The Genius, Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother, and George R. R. Martin’s Selections from Dreamsongs.