Once Around the Track

Name: Once Around the Track
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Sharyn McCrumb
ISBN: 9781436133111

Author: Sharyn McCrumb

Narrator: Nicole Poole

Unabridged: 12 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/20/2008

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

Best-selling author Sharyn McCrumb returns to the heart-racing world of NASCAR with Once Around the Track. Badger Jenkins, a driver past his prime, is recruited by an all-female pit crew to drive their new car. But every woman has a different plan to get the car into the fast lane, and it's not long before the women collide-both on and off the track.

About Sharyn McCrumb

Sharyn McCrumb is the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Ballad novels. She has received numerous honors for her work, including the Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Southern Literature, the AWA Book of the Year, and Notable Books in both The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. She was also named a Virginia Woman of History for Achievement in Literature. She lives and writes in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, fewer than one hundred miles from where her family settled in 1790.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

I first discovered McCrumb as a mystery writer (Elizabeth MacPherson series) and always enjoyed those stories. Over the years I have found delightful books in two totally different settings. "Bimbos of the Death Star" and "Bimbos and Zombies" are both set at a science fiction convention. Having been......more

Goodreads review by Carol

First. I've been to one Nascar race, just to have the experience. Second. I will not go to another. Not saying its a bad thing...just not my thing. So, when i read the synopsis, i wasn't quite sure i'd enjoy this read....i was wrong! Sharyn McCrumb has brought these characters to life and you don't ev......more

Goodreads review by suellen

McCrumb is a wonderful storyteller - car racing (race carring?) is not where I met her, but I trust her ability to draw me in. And now I know about restrictor plates, and quite a bit more about NASCAR. And her storytelling abilities kept me going through this thin novel. I wish she would go back to he......more