Brown, James Polster
Brown, James Polster
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Brown

Author: James Polster

Narrator: Brian Holsopple

Unabridged: 5 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/27/2012

Synopsis

Former Boston sportswriter McGee Brown is traveling cross-country with his fiancée when they call it quits somewhere around Nevada. With no job and no girl, Brown pushes on to California, where a fruitless job hunt lands him on his old buddy Fillmore’s doorstep. Fillmore is an accomplished clinical psychologist (and part-time bartender) whose own sanity is questionable at best. So it is only fitting when Fillmore suggests the solution to Brown’s financial woes is for him to become a psychologist as well—albeit, not a licensed one. (“This is California, man. It doesn’t matter.”) “Dr. Brown” agrees. His first patient is a beautiful but unhappy woman who suspects her wealthy financier husband is plotting to kill her. Days later, she’s found dead in a gorilla cage, her daughter goes missing, and Brown is hired to find her. The sportswriter-turned psychologist turns private detective. With the sardonic, oft-inebriated Fillmore at his side, Brown delves headfirst into what the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle praised as “a surreal, picaresque romp through the alienating landscape of contemporary culture.”

About James Polster

James Polster is a movie producer, novelist, and journalist who earned graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University. A National Fellow of the Explorers Club, he has traveled the world profiling international luminaries such as Indira Gandhi and Donald Trump and covering such major athletic events as the Duran/Leonard Superfight and the World Championships of Elephant Polo. His award-winning first book, A Guest in the Jungle, helped focus a spotlight on the disappearing Amazon rainforest, and his second book, Brown, was named by Publishers Weekly as a Best Book of the Year. For his third book, The Graduate Student, Polster drew on his experiences working at Columbia Pictures and NBC.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Antuian

Very good read and engaging story. I definitely enjoyed this book and I appreciate the fact that I laughed out loud on several occasions, which I have not done with other books that pose as funny. I would recommend this to anyone looking for a fun, short read that they can cover in a couple of days......more

Goodreads review by Michael

This is a light-hearted story that doesn't take itself in any way seriously. One of the authors 'jobs' is that of film producer, and I think,perhaps, this would make a good comedy. Not hugely funny in its written form, but lots of opportunities for visual humour. The story is based on the premise tha......more

Goodreads review by Tim

"Brown" follows the hero McGee Brown through a bizarre occurrence of events that sees him go from sports-writer to psychologist to private detective. I loved several things about this book. I loved the humour. I loved that the chapters were generally short so that I could breeze through relatively qu......more

Goodreads review by Maya

A very fast read - a slim volume with an awful lot of very short, very visual chapters - `Brown' feels very much like a screenplay that didn't get made and got re-vamped into a novel - or novella (it really is very short). It's an amusing, improbable, silly, funny, hard-to-believe, Big-Lebowskiish t......more

Goodreads review by Drcognition

This is also an enjoyable summer vacation book. It is funny and fast paced.......more

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