

It Happened in Boston?
Author: Russell H. Greenan, Jonathan Lethem
Narrator: Robert Fass
Unabridged: 10 hr 53 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Robert Fass
Published: 12/17/2014
Author: Russell H. Greenan, Jonathan Lethem
Narrator: Robert Fass
Unabridged: 10 hr 53 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Robert Fass
Published: 12/17/2014
Russell H. Greenan grew up in the Bronx and, on his way to becoming a novelist, served in the Navy, sold industrial engines, and ran several curio shops in the Boston area. His thirteen novels include The Secret Life of Algernon Pendleton and The Bric-a-Brac Man.
Jonathan Lethem is the bestselling author of twelve novels, including The Arrest, The Feral Detective, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. He currently teaches creative writing at Pomona College in California.
Robert Fass is the two-time winner of the prestigious Audie Award, numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards, and a veteran actor who has narrated over two hundred audiobooks. He has worked on projects from authors such as Ray Bradbury, John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, T.S. Eliot, Joyce Carol Oates, Carlos Fuentes, Jeffrey Deaver, and Lee Child, as well as bestselling and prize-winning nonfiction works in history, politics, health, journalism, philosophy, business, and memoir.
I found this book in a thrift store in Texas. I had this tendency when I lived there to go to the thrift store and open books whose titles or covers or descriptions interested me and read the first chapter. If the first chapter grabbed me, I would generally pick up the book, as even the hard covers......more
This is the single most influential book - influential, that is, on my own reading tastes - that I've ever read. It has one of the most compelling opening lines in any novel ever written. and it just gets better with each page. The quality of the prose alone is enough to make it worth reading. It has......more
After finishing, I read through so many five star reviews and they really surprised me. I was further surprised by the number of people who mentioned how fantastic and compelling the opening line was. I had to actually go back to look at it and try to work out why reviewers felt so in love with it.......more
A great novel which crosses genres, breaks rules, pushes boundaries, and ends with a breathtaking deus ex machina - and actually gets away with it! It contains horror for the horror fan, suspense for the thriller fan, and more than enough profound thought for those who want to be challenged intellect......more
I just recently rediscovered Russell Greenan--I read this book when I was a kid (book was published in 1968 and I had the paperback so I probably first read it in '69 or so) because my mom handed it to me--what was she thinking?! I mean, just because the protagonist is a serial killer, that's no rea......more
“Superbly macabre and satisfying.” New York Times
“It has all the terror and excitement of a Hitchcock thriller.” Boston Sunday Globe
“A book so astonishing that I’ll listen over and again, rewinding whole chapters…Russell Greenan’s It Happened in Boston? is that masterpiece…a startling treasure.” BookandFilmGlobe.com
“His voice is appropriately and frighteningly calm, with a detached kindness and a palpable hint of condescension toward the listener—until the frenetic plunge toward the end, where he seems to vibrate with tension.” Locus (audio review)
“Narrator Fass brings his best to his reading of this appealingly quirky first novel…that pulls the listener gently into his increasingly irrational world.” Publishers Weekly (audio review)
“The main character remains anonymous, but Fass quickly establishes his persona and effectively conveys his edgy emotional state and increasingly bizarre behavior.” AudioFile
“It has that most exhilarating of qualities: the power to reawaken our sense of life’s possibilities.” Anne Tyler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Breathing Lessons