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Furnace Creek
- Author
- Joseph Allen Boone
- Narrator
- Graham Halstead
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 25 October 2022
- Run Time
- 18 hours 7 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Taking its inspiration from Great Expectations, this novel teases us with the question of what Pip might have been like had he grown up in the American South of the 1960s and 1970s and faced the explosive social issues—racial injustice, a war abroad, women’s and gay rights, class struggle—that galvanized the world in those decades.
A guilty encounter with an escaped felon, a summer spent working for an eccentric man with a mysterious past, conflicted erotic feelings for his employer’s niece and nephew—these events set the stage for a journey of sexual and moral discovery that takes Newt Seward to New England, Rome, and Paris—all before returning home to confront his life’s many expectations and disappointments.
Deftly combining elements of coming-of-age story, novel of erotic discovery, Southern Gothic fiction, and detection-mystery thriller, Furnace Creek leaps the frame of Dickens’s masterpiece to provide a contemporary meditation on the perils of desire, ambition, love, loss, and family.
Critics Review
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“A joyously ambitious debut!”
Marianne Wiggins, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–nominated author of Evidence of Things Unseen
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“Boone is a natural novelist, and Furnace Creek is a genuine accomplishment.”
Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours
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“Furnace Creek is a novel that is as hard to categorize as it is to put down.”
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Booker Prize judge and the author of Becoming Dickens
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“I was totally entertained and, most of all, seduced.”
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer
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“Masterful at every turn.”
Dana Johnson, Flannery O’Connor Award winner and author of Elsewhere, California
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Details
- Author
- Joseph Allen Boone
- Narrator
- Graham Halstead
- Duration
- 18 hours 7 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 October 2022
- ISBN
- 9798212280471
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Erotic fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age
Synopsis
Taking its inspiration from Great Expectations, this novel teases us with the question of what Pip might have been like had he grown up in the American South of the 1960s and 1970s and faced the explosive social issues—racial injustice, a war abroad, women’s and gay rights, class struggle—that galvanized the world in those decades.A guilty encounter with an escaped felon, a summer spent working for an eccentric man with a mysterious past, conflicted erotic feelings for his employer’s niece and nephew—these events set the stage for a journey of sexual and moral discovery that takes Newt Seward to New England, Rome, and Paris—all before returning home to confront his life’s many expectations and disappointments.Deftly combining elements of coming-of-age story, novel of erotic discovery, Southern Gothic fiction, and detection-mystery thriller, Furnace Creek leaps the frame of Dickens’s masterpiece to provide a contemporary meditation on the perils of desire, ambition, love, loss, and family.
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