Fellow Travelers, Thomas Mallon
Fellow Travelers, Thomas Mallon
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Fellow Travelers

Author: Thomas Mallon

Narrator: Christian Barillas

Unabridged: 14 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/24/2023


Synopsis

NOW A SHOWTIME LIMITED SERIES STARRING MATT BOMER, JONATHAN BAILEY, AND ALLISON WILLIAMS • A searing historical novel set in 1950s Washington, D.C.—a world of dominated by personalities like Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy—and infused with political drama, unexpected humor, and heartbreak. • From the acclaimed author of Watergate and Up With the Sun

In a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, is eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim's first job and, after Fuller's advances, his first love affair. As McCarthy mounts a desperate bid for power and internal investigations focus on “sexual subversives” in the government, Tim and Fuller find it ever more dangerous to navigate their double lives while moving between the diplomatic world of Foggy Bottom and NATO's front line in Europe.

About Thomas Mallon

Thomas Mallon is the acclaimed author of several novels and nonfiction books as well as a collection of essays. A frequent contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and other magazines, he lives in Washington, D.C.

About Christian Barillas

Christian Barillas is an Audie-nominated audiobook narrator and actor whose television credits include Modern Family, The Handmaid's Tale, and The Bridge. With a classical background in theater, he has appeared on stage at the Huntington Theatre Co., the Denver Center, and the Yale Repertory. He studied journalism and media at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and went on to receive his master's degree in acting from UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Skip on June 19, 2008

I finished this novel last night. I was up early this morning to take it back to the library. For some reason, I found this story so unnerving. So sad...Was any character truly happy? (Not that stories have to be full of happy people.) In short, the McCarthy hearing chapters could have been better ed......more

Goodreads review by Ray on November 18, 2023

So ostensibly this is a novel about being gay in the 50's in McCarthy-era Washington, D.C. I liked this book so much for its deeper themes about the sacrifice of self, and the willingness (or unwillingness) to be vulnerable that is required by love. I won't go into a ton of detail on the plot, but at......more

Goodreads review by Scott on February 14, 2019

This fully failed for me. Though it was overloaded with meticulously researched historical and political detail, only about 30% of that detail actually fit. The majority was name- and event-dropping miscellanea that was frankly exhausting. The romance at the core of this book was difficult to read. W......more

Goodreads review by Erik on May 05, 2022

More like a WASPs nest than a coherent novel, Thomas Mallon's "Fellow Travelers" has too many Tims, Toms, and Joes to make the story coherent. "Fellow Travelers" tells the story of a State Department worker, Hawkins Fuller, who meets the love of his life, a congressional aid named Tim, and must balan......more

Goodreads review by Halcyon on March 29, 2024

“I seem to be always searching for something to lose myself in completely... It’s like we say in seminary — ‘beyond measure.” Fellow Travelers is a book about love, betrayal and suppression of who you are amidst a time of being terrorized for being who you are. A case of political drama stretched thr......more