Old Jules, Mari Sandoz
Old Jules, Mari Sandoz
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Old Jules

Author: Mari Sandoz

Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 15 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/26/2022

Synopsis

First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz’s masterpiece.This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of “the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed. So it was that I heard the accounts of the hunts,” Sandoz recalls. “Of the fights with the cattlemen and the sheepmen, of the tragic scarcity of women, when a man had to ‘marry anything that got off the train,’ of the droughts, the storms, the wind, and isolation. But the most impressive stories were those told to me by Old Jules himself.”

About Mari Sandoz

Mari Sandoz (1896–1966) was the author of seven novels and eighteen works of nonfiction. She was also a lecturer and teacher and one of Nebraska’s foremost writers.

About Roxanne Hernandez

Roxanne Hernandez is an audio narrator and a top narrator choice for young adult, adult drama, and Latin American/Chicano literature. She was a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration in 2011.

About Gabrielle de Cuir

Gabrielle de Cuir, award-winning narrator, has narrated over three hundred titles and specializes in fantasy, humor, and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills. She was a cowinner of the Audie Award for best narration in 2011 and a three-time finalist for the Audie and has garnered six AudioFile Earphones Awards. Her “velvet touch” as an actor’s director has earned her a special place in the audiobook world as the foremost producer for bestselling authors and celebrities.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and a multiaward-winning narrator, named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Pam on January 06, 2025

Well written but very hard to slog through. It’s ostensibly an homage to the author’s father—a horrible father I might add, although she evidently didn’t see it quite that way. He was larger than life, impressed many who knew him and had some friends in high places, Jules Ami Sandoz came from Switzer......more

Goodreads review by Jon on November 10, 2015

Old Jules is a biography of an American pioneer, written by his daughter Mari and published in 1937. Mari Sandoz is an extraordinary figure in American letters and this, her first book, is a great book. I want to say it is one of the greatest books written about the American west, but I haven’t read......more

Goodreads review by Dan on December 31, 2023

This took me a long while to read, but the effort paid off. I have known men like Jules Sandoz. Charming, big-talking, and so self-centered that they warp reality, bending the world to serve them. Mari Sandoz pulls no punches in this biography of her father: he was a bad man. He abused those under h......more

Goodreads review by Deacon Tom on April 14, 2020

Nice story of settling Nebraska.......more

Goodreads review by ShirleyS on October 01, 2020

Not exactly Little House on the Prairie.......more

Quotes

“A realistic biography, a rare find. On putting down this book one feels that one has read the history of all pioneering.” New York Times Book Review

“An amazing portrait. Mari Sandoz has written the truth. And she has given it to us as if she had cut it, like a sod, from the live ground.” New York Herald Tribune Books

“It is a magnificent job. The great virtue of Miss Sandoz’s book is that you can see it happening. There is a good deal of America in Old Jules. It is, heaven knows, an enthralling story. But it is more than that, and much deeper. It is an experience in citizenship.” Saturday Review of Literature

“A magnificent job…An enthralling story.” Saturday Review of Literature

Awards

  • Book-of-the-Month Club Selection
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