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Owning Up
- Author
- George Pelecanos
- Narrator
- Dion Graham
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Publish Date
- 6 February 2024
- Run Time
- 5 hours 38 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Four blistering novellas, drawn together by themes of strife, violence, and humanity.
"Every time I read one of George Pelecanos's novels, I'm left a little awed." —Dennis Lehane, #1 bestselling author of Shutter Island
When the son of the Carusos is involved in a hold up, the family home comes under siege in the form of a no-knock warrant. Months after the cops destroyed their home, the Carusos struggle to return to normal. Elsewhere, two former inmates reunite by chance on the set of a TV production. Both have found their way on the straight and narrow path, that is, until one sees the potential for an easy grift. A teenage boy must step into the man he'd like to be as a hostage crisis grips his hometown. A woman adrift meets a man tied to her grandmother's past, an encounter that awakens her to a bloody history that undergirds the place she grew up.
Pelecanos' portraits are characterized by shades of grey, resisting the mold of heroes and villains, victims and perpetrators, good and evil. At once streetwise and full of heart, Owning Up grapples with random chance, the bind of consequence, and the forked paths a life can take.
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Details
- Author
- George Pelecanos
- Narrator
- Dion Graham
- Duration
- 5 hours 38 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 February 2024
- ISBN
- 9781668635674
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Genre
- Short stories, Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime and mystery fiction
Synopsis
Four blistering novellas, drawn together by themes of strife, violence, and humanity."Every time I read one of George Pelecanos's novels, I'm left a little awed." —Dennis Lehane, #1 bestselling author of Shutter Island When the son of the Carusos is involved in a hold up, the family home comes under siege in the form of a no-knock warrant. Months after the cops destroyed their home, the Carusos struggle to return to normal. Elsewhere, two former inmates reunite by chance on the set of a TV production. Both have found their way on the straight and narrow path, that is, until one sees the potential for an easy grift. A teenage boy must step into the man he'd like to be as a hostage crisis grips his hometown. A woman adrift meets a man tied to her grandmother's past, an encounter that awakens her to a bloody history that undergirds the place she grew up. Pelecanos' portraits are characterized by shades of grey, resisting the mold of heroes and villains, victims and perpetrators, good and evil. At once streetwise and full of heart, Owning Up grapples with random chance, the bind of consequence, and the forked paths a life can take.
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