The Clearing

Name: The Clearing
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Tim Gautreaux
ISBN: 9781461810452

Author: Tim Gautreaux

Narrator: Henry Strozier

Unabridged: 11 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/22/2011

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

With The Clearing, Southeastern Booksellers Award winner Tim Gautreaux delivers a brutal novel of love, family, and redemption. Randolph Aldridge travels to a snake-infested Cypress mill in Louisiana to find his brother Byron, a troubled veteran of World War I. Once there, Randolph finds that By is a shell of his former self-and that the murderous cartel controlling the mill's casino won't give them any peace.

About Tim Gautreaux

Tim Gautreaux is the author of three novels and two earlier short story collections. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic, Harper's, and GQ. After teaching for thirty years at Southeastern Louisiana University, he now lives with his wife in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Candi

4.5 stars "Nimbus—that place tethered to all of civilization only by a few miles of buckled railroad." When Randolph Aldridge arrived in Nimbus, Louisiana, it seems he truly stepped into another world entirely. Sent on a mission by his father, Randolph, or Rando, is assigned two rather hefty tasks – t......more