The Fisher Boy, Stephen Anable
The Fisher Boy, Stephen Anable
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The Fisher Boy

Author: Stephen Anable

Narrator: Richard Powers

Unabridged: 12 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/10/2008

Synopsis

With a gay resort, an art colony, and a working fishing port, Provincetown has long been a place of freedom, escape, diversity, and risk. Mark Winslow, a Boston comic, arrives with his troupe of actors, ready to break into the Provincetown club circuit. But the town and the region are far from peaceful this summer. When a public fight makes Mark the prime suspect in the grisly death of a Boston blueblood, Mark believes his choice is simple. He must find the killer or be charged with the crime.Amid the clam shacks and craft shops, art galleries and nude beaches, undercurrents are pulling at the surface of normality. Could the disappearance of a famous painter eighty years in the past—and the story of his masterpiece, “The Fisher Boy”—somehow lie at the center of the whirlpool of evil threatening to extinguish Mark’s life?

About Stephen Anable

Stephen H. Anable was born in Boston and graduated from Stanford and Harvard universities. His short fiction and essays have been published in magazines and anthologies. At various times during his life, he has been a stand-up comic, a journalist, an actor, a social worker, a scriptwriter, and the communications coordinator at a cemetery. He has two sons and lives in Massachusetts.

About Richard Powers

Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory, and Bewilderment was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lizva

I liked this book but listened to it as an audiobook and it felt too long. Just too much going on. I started it because it mentioned that the protagonist was a comedian so I thought it would include some humor. It did not. I would try more by the author but probably not as an audiobook.......more

Goodreads review by Ulysses

The Fisher Boy (Mark Winslow mystery 2) By Stephen Anable Poisoned Pen Press, 2008 Five stars I’m reading these in the wrong order, but it doesn’t seem to matter. I missed these books the first time out—because they appeared before I got my Kindle and became a voracious reader. I am so glad I found them......more

Goodreads review by CoffeeandInk

I dunno about you all, but I loved it. The setting, the characters, the diversity, the twisty, twisty plot.......more

Goodreads review by Audrey

The memorable elements of this book aren't the characters, but the intricately contrived plot and the author's colourful use of language. For example: "...window boxes hemorrhaging red geraniums," and "...tomatoes, taut as blood blisters, bigger than skulls." It's a bit over the top at times, just l......more

Quotes

“Anable has given his earnest sleuth a genuine sense of wonder at the beauty of the Cape and a rare ability to hold conversations with sad, wounded people. His is a voice worth hearing again.” Marilyn Stasio, New York Times

“Ingenious plotting and witty prose lift Anable’s distinctive debut…A profusion of diverting red herrings and a clever twist…help keep the suspense high through to the surprising conclusion.” Publishers Weekly

“Paul Michael Garcia narrates with a passion for delving into character…[and] creates full-bodied characters that will engage listeners from start to finish.” Audiofile

“Garcia keeps the tension growing through his delicately calibrated reading and breathless rhythms, which help depict Mark’s mix of regret, fear, and terror as he becomes the prime suspect. Garcia does an equally solid job reflecting an assortment of assertive lesbians, Mark’s high-strung actor friends, and an asthmatic chef of questionable credibility.” Booklist

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