Extraordinary Adventures

Name: Extraordinary Adventures
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Daniel Wallace
ISBN: 9781501946165

Author: Daniel Wallace

Narrator: David Aaron Baker

Unabridged: 10 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/30/2017

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Edsel Bronfman works as a junior executive shipping clerk for an importer of Korean flatware. He lives in a seedy neighborhood and spends his free time with his spirited mother. Things happen to other people, and Bronfman knows it. Until, that is, he gets a call from operator 61217 telling him that he's won a free weekend at a beachfront condo in Destin, Florida. But there's a catch: the offer is intended for a couple, and Bronfman has only seventy-nine days to find someone to take with him. The phone call jolts Bronfman into motion, initiating a series of truly extraordinary adventures as he sets out to find a companion for his weekend getaway. Open at last to the possibilities of life, Bronfman now believes that anything can happen. And it does. A large-hearted and optimistic novel, Extraordinary Adventures is the latest from the New York Times bestselling Daniel Wallace

About Daniel Wallace

Daniel Wallace is the author of five novels. His first, Big Fish, was made into a motion picture of the same name by Tim Burton in 2003, and a musical version is coming to Broadway in 2013. Wallace’s work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and is studied in high schools and universities across the country. He is a contributing editor to Garden & Gun magazine and is the J. Ross MacDonald Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he teaches and directs the Creative Writing Program. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife, Laura Kellison Wallace. Visit his website at DanielWallace.org.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah

This was a nice departure from my usual books. It made me laugh about as much as it made me shake my head in confusion. It's awkward, but funny and honest. Sometimes cringe-worthy, but sweet too. Edsel Bronfman leads a triangle kind of life. Work, home, Mom's house. That's his life. He isn't social,......more

Goodreads review by Dana

Socially awkward semi-hermit wins a trip of a life time, but the catch is that to redeem his vacation prize he must bring a companion with him! And so begins the Extraordinary Adventures as Edsel goes out of his comfort zone to find the girl of his dreams...or at least a girl to bring on vacation wi......more

Goodreads review by Michael

I straight-up enjoyed this book. The truth is I generally set books down, (even the ones I am fully enjoying because I have so much professional reading to do), but not so with Extraordinary Adventures. I read it in 2 sittings....which for me is amazing because I am generally a slow reader. But I wa......more