Immaculate Blue, Paul Russell
Immaculate Blue, Paul Russell
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Immaculate Blue

Author: Paul Russell

Narrator: Charles Leggett

Unabridged: 8 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/25/2016


Synopsis

From the award-winning author of The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov comes the brilliantly conceived and precisely rendered novel Immaculate Blue, which explores the lives of four people - Anatole, Leigh, Chris, and Lydia - and their intermingled and unwinding desires. Set in upstate New York, the novel follows these characters as they achieve their aims in lives redolent with loss and hope, humor and sadness, union and alienation. Russell picks up the thread of his critically acclaimed novel The Salt Point 20 years later and tracks the lives of these friends, some of whom not only lost touch with each other but have also lost their way. Moving, at times shocking, and always memorable, Immaculate Blue points to where the personal and the political come together and shape our lives in unexpected ways. With this newest novel, Paul Russell reminds us of why he is one of the most important voices on the literary scene.

About Paul Russell

Paul Russell is the author of The Salt Point and the Ferro-Grumley Award–winning The Coming Storm. The recipient of many nominations and awards for his writing, he is the author of The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov, named by The Washington Post as one of the five most important books of the year. A writing professor at Vassar and the only author to have received the Ferro-Grumley Award twice, he lives in Poughkeepsie, NY.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Shannon

Immaculate Blue is about nothing and yet about everything, particularly if you are gay and your "wonder years" were in the late 80's and early 90's. If you read Russell's The Salt Point from 1990, this book follows the same group of friends now twenty years later as their paths cross again in Poughk......more

Goodreads review by Gerhard

It is fitting that Paul Russell bookends his first novel with a seamless sequel that is the best book this peerless author has written to date. I loved the way Russell continues the story of Lydia, Anatole, Chris and Leigh in a way that comments on some of the most divisive socio-political issues fa......more

Goodreads review by Matthew

Sequel to The Salt Point, written twenty-five years later. Also takes up the characters' lives twenty-five years later, and they're all quite different. Too different, in my opinion, particularly Chris. There are attempts to explain the changes, but they're insufficient -- again, especially with Chr......more