Patricia Lockwood has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 36 ratings. The most-rated is Priestdaddy.
Priestdaddy
Summary
From Patricia Lockwood - a writer acclaimed for her wildly original voice - a vivid, heartbreakingly funny memoir about having a married Catholic priest for a father. Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met - a man who lounges in boxer shorts, who loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates "like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972". His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the church's country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their two worlds collide. In Priestdaddy, Lockwood interweaves emblematic moments from her childhood and adolescence - from an ill-fated family hunting trip and an abortion clinic sit-in where her father was arrested to her involvement in a cultlike Catholic youth group - with scenes that chronicle the eight-month adventure she and her husband had in her parents' household after a decade of living on their own. Lockwood details her education of a seminarian who is also living at the rectory, tries to explain Catholicism to her husband, who is mystified by its bloodthirstiness and arcane laws, and encounters a mysterious substance on a hotel bed with her mother. Lockwood pivots from the raunchy to the sublime, from the comic to the deeply serious, exploring issues of belief, belonging, and personhood. Priestdaddy is an entertaining, unforgettable portrait of a deeply odd religious upbringing and how one balances a hard-won identity with the weight of family and tradition.
©2017 Patricia Lockwood (P)2017 Audible, Inc.
No One Is Talking About This
Summary
A National Best Seller “No One Is Talking About This reaches for the sublime, online and off.... Lockwood is a modern word witch, her writing splendid and sordid by turns.” (New York Times Book Review) “Wow. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book. What an inventive and startling writer... I’m so glad I read this. I really think this book is remarkable.” (David Sedaris) From "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal", where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats - from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness - begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. "Are we in hell?" the people of the portal ask themselves. "Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?" Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: "Something has gone wrong" and "How soon can you get here?" As real life and its stakes collide with the increasingly absurd antics of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary. Fragmentary and omniscient, incisive and sincere, No One Is Talking About This is at once a love letter to the endless scroll and a profound, modern meditation on love, language, and human connection from a singular voice in American literature.
©2021 Patricia Lockwood (P)2021 Penguin Audio
Balloon Pop Outlaw Black
Summary
Poetry. Even all by themselves, the titles of Patricia Lockwood's poems reveal the sort of surreal, enigmatic, rhetorically elongated world her sensibility inhabits effortlessly: "When We Move Away from Here, You'll See a Clean Square of Paper Where His Picture Hung", "The Cartoon's Mother Builds a House in Hammerspace", "The Front Half and the Back Half of a Horse in Conversation", "Children with Lamps Pouring out of Their Foreheads", and the inimitable "Killed with an Apple Corer, She Asks What Does That Make Me".
©2012 Patricia Lockwood (P)2017 Audible, Inc.
Priestdaddy
Summary
Padre Greg Lockwood è diverso da qualsiasi prete cattolico abbiate mai incontrato: circola per casa con i boxer, adora i film d'azione (con molta, moltissima azione), il suo frequente accanimento su una chitarra elettrica genera un rumore simile a quello di "un'intera band che muore in un incidente aereo nel 1972". Sua figlia Patricia è una poetessa non esattamente ossequiosa, che da un bel pezzo ha abbandonato la retta via della Chiesa. Ma quando una crisi inaspettata la costringe a tornare insieme al marito nella canonica dove vivono i suoi genitori, questi due mondi inevitabilmente si scontrano. Patricia Lockwood non racconta solo momenti emblematici della sua infanzia e adolescenza (da una maldestrissima battuta di caccia in famiglia a una manifestazione antiabortista davanti a una clinica che si conclude con l'arresto del padre, al suo coinvolgimento in una specie di culto frequentato da un gruppo di giovani cattolici), ma anche gli otto lunghi travagliatissimi mesi che lei e suo marito hanno trascorso nella casa dei genitori dopo un decennio di vita indipendente, mesi nei quali Patricia ha cercato di educare a modo suo un seminarista che viveva con loro nella canonica, ha cercato di spiegare i riti arcani tipici del cattolicesimo al marito sconcertato e - insieme alla madre - si è imbattuta in una sostanza misteriosa su un letto d'albergo. Saltando con estrema nonchalance dal volgare al sublime, dal comico al profondo, al poetico, Priestdaddy dipinge in modo divertente e indimenticabile un'educazione religiosa molto sui generis e l'equilibrio quanto mai precario tra un'identità conquistata a duro prezzo e il peso della famiglia e della tradizione, ma finisce per essere soprattutto un ritratto dell'America di oggi, così profondamente divisa nell'intimo, così dilaniata al proprio interno, così anarchica e vitale. Un memoir pieno di poesia e di triviale bellezza che ha conquistato i lettori d'Oltreoceano.
©2020 Mondadori (P)2020 Mondadori