Crystal Chard has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 99 ratings. The most-rated is All the Pretty Horses.
All the Pretty Horses
Summary
Cormac McCarthy is a quiet, unassuming presence in American fiction today, but like the slow, measured voices of many of his characters, he speaks with an authority and conviction that demands an audience. All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy's sixth novel, is a cowboy odyssey for modern times. Set in the late 1940s, it features the travels and toils of a 16-year-old East Texan named John Grady Cole, caught in the agonizing purgatory between adolescence and adulthood. At the start of the novel, Cole's grandfather has just died, his parents have permanently separated, and the family ranch, upon which he had placed so many boyish hopes, has been sold. Rootless and increasingly restive, Cole leaves Texas, accompanied by his friend Lacey Rawlins, and begins a journey across the vaquero frontier into the badlands of northern Mexico. In spite of its hard realities and spare telling, All the Pretty Horses is a lyrical and richly romantic story, chronicling - along with the erosion of the frontier - the loss of an era.
©1992 Cormac McCarthy (P)1992 Recorded Books, LLC
Rough Around the Edges
Summary
"Fresh, fab, and funny. The characters leap off the page and swear at you until you love them while the sweet romance quietly captures your heart." (Clare Ashton) Roxanne Mackenzie is not exactly living her best life. After moving to London to follow her dream of becoming a writer, she thought things would be different - better. Instead, they’re a whole lot worse. Meeting Josie Calhoun - the woman who has everything together, including the top button of her shirt - makes Roxy question how she’s been living her life. Josie can’t bear lies and values trust above all else, so what will she make of Roxy’s scandalous truth? Crystal Chard’s debut romance takes us on a crazy ride of laughs and tears with many mojitos along the way.
©2020 Crystal Chard (P)2020 Crystal Chard