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Handling Sin
- Author
- Michael Malone
- Narrator
- Nick Sullivan
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 18 April 2023
- Run Time
- 25 hours
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
On the Ides of March, our hero, Raleigh Whittier Hayes (forgetful husband, baffled father, prosperous insurance agent, and leading citizen of Thermopylae, North Carolina), learns that his father has discharged himself from the hospital, taken all his money out of the bank and, with a young Black female mental patient, vanished in a yellow Cadillac convertible. Left behind is a mysterious list of seven outrageous tasks that Raleigh must perform in order to rescue his father and his inheritance.
And so Raleigh and fat Mingo Sheffield (his irrepressibly loyal friend) set off on an uproarious contemporary treasure hunt through a landscape of unforgettable characters, falling into adventures worthy of Tom Jones and Huck Finn. A moving parable of human love and redemption, Handling Sin is Michael Malone’s comic masterpiece.
Critics Review
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“Terribly funny, emotionally engaging, and almost impossible to set aside.”
Newsweek
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“Phenomenal…A hilarious success.”
New York Times Book Review
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“Handling Sin is a comic odyssey…Constantly sharp and funny…A knick-knack gem-crack high-time circus, with intriguing sideshows, and an abiding spirit of fun…This novel is some show.”
Newsday
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“This madcap book bubbles with frenzy from the first pages…with a wink to Cervantes and Dickens—as well as the Marx Brothers…A highly refreshing tale in which Malone has managed to make the bizarre hilariously credible.”
Publishers Weekly
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“Handling Sin is terrific…Large spirited, beautifully crafted, and extremely funny…Dozens of vivid, eccentric creatures…A dazzling display of caricature and high energy farce…Grand and lovely.”
The Nation
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“With this immense, joyous novel…Malone has written the best, most vibrantly comic book of his career…A delightful book that readers will want to savor—at least once.”
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Details
- Author
- Michael Malone
- Narrator
- Nick Sullivan
- Duration
- 25 hours
- Release Date
- 18 April 2023
- ISBN
- 9798212387149
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Humorous fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
On the Ides of March, our hero, Raleigh Whittier Hayes (forgetful husband, baffled father, prosperous insurance agent, and leading citizen of Thermopylae, North Carolina), learns that his father has discharged himself from the hospital, taken all his money out of the bank and, with a young Black female mental patient, vanished in a yellow Cadillac convertible. Left behind is a mysterious list of seven outrageous tasks that Raleigh must perform in order to rescue his father and his inheritance.And so Raleigh and fat Mingo Sheffield (his irrepressibly loyal friend) set off on an uproarious contemporary treasure hunt through a landscape of unforgettable characters, falling into adventures worthy of Tom Jones and Huck Finn. A moving parable of human love and redemption, Handling Sin is Michael Malone’s comic masterpiece.
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