Lamb, Bonnie Nadzam
Lamb, Bonnie Nadzam
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Lamb

Author: Bonnie Nadzam

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 5 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/13/2011

Synopsis

Lamb traces the selfdiscovery of David Lamb, a narcissistic middleaged man with a tendency toward dishonesty, in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his own goodness, he turns his attention to Tommie, an awkward and unpopular elevenyearold girl. Lamb is convinced that he can help her avoid a destiny of apathy and emptiness and even comes to believe that his devotion to Tommie is in her best interest. But when he decides to abduct a willing Tommie for a road trip from Chicago to the Rockies, planning to initiate her to the beauty of the mountain wilderness, they are both shaken in ways neither of them expects. Lamb is a masterful exploration of the dynamics of love and dependency that challenges the boundaries between adolescence and adulthood, confronts preconceived notions about conventional morality, and exposes mankinds eroded relationship with nature.

About Bonnie Nadzam

Bonnie Nadzam is an author whose first novel, Lamb, won the 2011 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and was long-listed for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. It has been translated into several languages and was made into an award-winning film in 2016. She is also the coauthor, with Dale Jamieson, of Love in the Anthropocene and has published fiction and essays in many journals and magazines, including Granta, Harper’s, Epoch, Orion, the Iowa Review, and the Kenyon Review.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on November 30, 2022

Bonnie Nadzam has written an insightful, fascinating character study, supported by a gift for landscape description, but marred by some inconsistency. Bonnie Nadzam - image from The Guardian David Lamb is middle-aged, a liar and a loser, a narcissist and a dreamer, a kid who never really grew up. Li......more

Goodreads review by Baba on September 03, 2022

Shortlisted Women's Prize for Fiction 2013, Winner Flaherty Dunman First Novel Prize 2011 - David Lamb is 54, Tommie is an 11 year old girl; there's nothing wrong there is there? That's really the sub heading to this weird and compelling book about, I think, friendship and mortality. Most excellent......more

Goodreads review by Blair on March 11, 2016

I swore to myself I would write a proper, in-depth, meaningful review of Lamb: something that actually had some meat and substance to it, not one of the one-paragraph rush jobs I've often done when I don't have the time or inclination to get into a proper-write up. Something that would make people s......more

Goodreads review by piperitapitta on August 19, 2018

The Silence of the Lambs “...niente di tutto questo sarà mai successo”* David Lamb e Tommie partono insieme dai sobborghi di Chicago lasciandosi alle spalle la lunga Roosvelt Road; abbandonano il Midwest, attraversano il North Dakota, lambiscono il Wyoming, solcano il west fino ad approdare in una bai......more

Goodreads review by switterbug (Betsey) on September 21, 2013

Bonnie Nazdam's dual degree in literature and environmental studies shines in her debut novel about human desire and dependency, and about the beauty and decline of the landscape, resplendent in its rawness and fragile vulnerability. Nature and humanity form a synergistic elixir that permeates the p......more

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