Paradise Salvage
- Author John Fusco
- Narrator Brian Emerson
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 25 June 2005
- Run Time 14 hours and 37 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Fiction: general and literary, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
Paradise Salvage is both a taut thriller and a lyrical coming-of-age story following twelve-year-old Nunzio Paradiso’s last summer of innocence.
For Nunzio, each new wreck towed into Paradise Salvage is a desultory gift from Fortune, a random opportunity for discovery. But on a hot summer day in 1979, in the trunk of an abandoned Pontiac Bonneville, he uncovers a secret that will change his life. Then, in the blink of an eye, all evidence is lost to the crusher, and only his older brother Danny Boy believes Nunzio’s story.
Enlisting the help of a cousin, an ex-cop with a dark history of his own, they embark on a bizarre and dangerous journey that proves to be as much one of personal discovery as an unraveling of the mystery behind the corpse at Paradise Salvage.
Critics Review
“John Fusco has given us a book with a large and loving heart. Paradise Salvage is a work of triumph.”
“Provesnhome is where the heart is...Corruption may drive Fusco’s plot, but quirkyncharacters definitely hold the steering wheel.”
“Fusco’s fiction debut has many simpatico characters [and] some charming scenes.”
“If you’renhoping for a leisurely, sentimental study of time and place, Fusco delivers.”
“[An] ambitiousncoming-of-age pseudothriller debut.”
“Hilariousnand touching. With a screenwriter’s flair for the sensuous, the book is annexplosion of visual and tactile and olfactory impressions. We are catapultedninto Little Italy.”
“The story,nset in a working-class Connecticut town in 1979, brims with suspense,nadventure, and Italian-American culture as Nuncio and his older brother mustnface incredulous adults, corrupt officials, violence, death, and Italiannsuperstitions.”
“Fusco does so many things so well in this novel.”
| Author | John Fusco |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Brian Emerson |
| Duration | 14 hours and 37 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781483064857 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Genre | Fiction: general and literary, Thriller / suspense fiction |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE, US |
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