Return to Oakpine, Ron Carlson
Return to Oakpine, Ron Carlson
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Return to Oakpine

Author: Ron Carlson

Narrator: David Aaron Baker

Unabridged: 9 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/11/2013


Synopsis

Ron Carlson is a widely respected author whose accolades include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Ploughshares Cohen Prize. Return to Oakpine spins a story of growing up and growing old as four high school friends and former bandmates reconnect 30 years after graduating. When they learn that one of them is dying, it feels like getting the band back together might be the most important thing they can do.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara

I was drawn to this book because it’s a story about 4 men in their 50‘s(who were high school friends and are now trying to make peace in their world) written by a man of a mature age. I love chic-lit, so this seemed to be “dude-lit”. I couldn’t pass it up. It begins when one man(Jimmy) returns home......more

Goodreads review by Tuck

do 50 year olds ever have sex? (i'll not answer that). author carlson sure doesn't think so. some huggin', bit of kissin', a brief torso rub up, but no sex. shame. the high school kids seem to fuck like rabbits in good ole oakpine, but the 50 year olds, nope. there was a good question here though, in......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl

This is a fast read but in this case this is not a good thing. Fast because I was going through the motions but not rememberable. I got about half way into the book. Which I stopped at chapter 6. Yes, this is a shorter book then my usual reading at 264 pages. Anyways, I went to pick up this book aga......more