The Missing

Name: The Missing
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Tim Gautreaux
ISBN: 9781440718939

Author: Tim Gautreaux

Narrator: Henry Strozier

Unabridged: 15 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/26/2009

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

In this spellbinder by critically acclaimed author Tim Gautreaux, Sam Simoneaux returns from World War I to rebuild his life. But when a girl is snatched from the New Orleans department store where he's working, he hops aboard a Mississippi steamboat to find her-and dredges up ghosts from his painful past. "An exceptional novel . fluent prose, accomplished storytelling, and strong characterizations in this paean to the indefatigability of the human spirit."-Booklist

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 "There were people missing in his life like big holes cut out of the night sky, and Sam felt powerless to do anything about it. He was only one person in a planet full of incomplete seekers…" I was first introduced to the writing of Tim Gautreaux after reading The Clearing. I became an insta......more