

A Change of Gravity
Author: George V. Higgins
Narrator: Adams Morgan
Unabridged: 17 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 12/01/1998
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Author: George V. Higgins
Narrator: Adams Morgan
Unabridged: 17 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 12/01/1998
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
George V. Higgins (1939–1999) was a lawyer, journalist, teacher, and the author of twenty-nine books, most notably The Friends of Eddie Coyle.
Adams Morgan is a theater-trained actor who has appeared in venues around the United States. He has also narrated for National Public Radio and performed radio dramas and historical reenactments. He lives in New York City.
Not a typical Higgins novel as it is more about politics and public corruption than it is about crime and criminals exactly. As other reviews have noted, it takes a while to get into, but is quite rewarding once you get further in. Lots of interesting conversations and characters and overlapping sto......more
Higgins does a masterful job of spinning a story that ends almost exactly where it began. The richness of the characters, and the breadth of the storytelling make the book an incredible read.......more
wow. absolute travesty that there are only 29 ratings of this novel and EIGHT reviews... one of the great noir novelists......more
“The story unfolds…through superb dialogue that reveals character in a far more complex and interesting way than does an omniscient narrator…As always, his characters are so real they spare us the task of willingly suspending disbelief.” New York Times Book Review
“For twenty-five years, Higgins’ novels have been built on this one simple principle—that you learn the most about people by listening to what they say and how they say it. His books move in sweeping, slowly inclining curves, like a highway gradually winding its way up a mountain, moving in one direction without ever seeming to be pointing there.” Booklist
“With the sociological grasp of Trollope and Thackeray, but with a distinctly postmodern sense of architecture…[Higgins] has produced his most ambitious, and infuriating, book in years.” Kirkus Reviews