

Tournament
Author: Shelby Foote
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Unabridged: 9 hr 26 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 06/24/2005
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Author: Shelby Foote
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Unabridged: 9 hr 26 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 06/24/2005
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Shelby Foote (1916–2005) was an American historian and novelist who came from a long line of Mississippians. After attending the University of North Carolina, he served in World War II as a captain of field artillery in the European theater. He wrote six novels and was awarded three Guggenheim Fellowships in the twenty-year course of writing his monumental three-volume history, The Civil War: A Narrative.
Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.
“Foote, like Faulkner, sees the Deep South with an unblinking eye.”
L’Express“[Grover Gardner’s] pleasant voice creates believable characters who metamorphose from words to reality with regional accents, interesting intonations, and antique expressions.”
AudioFile“It is a great joy to witness...the flowering of Shelby Foote. [Tournament] is rife with glimpses of the writer he has since become.”
Southern Living“Lavish in its expenditure of literary capital that could have made up...three or four novels.”
Louis D. Rubin, Jr., author of Uptown/Downtown in Old Charleston