Philipp Meyer has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 8 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.9★ across 50 ratings. The most-rated is The Son.
The Son
Summary
Audie Award Finalist, Literary Fiction, 2014 Soon to be a TV Series on AMC starring Pierce Brosnan and co-written by Philipp Meyer. The critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling epic, a saga of land, blood, and power that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the oil booms of the 20th century. Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching examination of the bloody price of power, The Son is a gripping and utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American west with rare emotional acuity, even as it presents an intimate portrait of one family across two centuries. Eli McCullough is just twelve-years-old when a marauding band of Comanche storm his Texas homestead and brutally murder his mother and sister, taking him as a captive. Despite their torture and cruelty, Eli—against all odds—adapts to life with the Comanche, learning their ways, their language, taking on a new name, finding a place as the adopted son of the chief of the band, and fighting their wars against not only other Indians, but white men, too-complicating his sense of loyalty, his promised vengeance, and his very understanding of self. But when disease, starvation, and westward expansion finally decimate the Comanche, Eli is left alone in a world in which he belongs nowhere, neither white nor Indian, civilized or fully wild. Deftly interweaving Eli's story with those of his son, Peter, and his great-granddaughter, JA, The Son deftly explores the legacy of Eli's ruthlessness, his drive to power, and his life-long status as an outsider, even as the McCullough family rises to become one of the richest in Texas, a ranching-and-oil dynasty of unsurpassed wealth and privilege. Harrowing, panoramic, and deeply evocative, The Son is a fully realized masterwork in the greatest tradition of the American canon-an unforgettable novel that combines the narrative prowess of Larry McMurtry with the knife edge sharpness of Cormac McCarthy.
©2013 Philipp Meyer (P)2013 HarperCollinsPublishers
American Rust
Summary
Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation-as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love-that arise from its loss. From local bars to train yards to prison, it is the story of two young men, bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia, and the beauty around them, who dream of a future beyond the factories and abandoned homes. Left alone to care for his aging father after his mother commits suicide and his sister escapes to Yale, Isaac English longs for a life beyond his hometown. But when he finally sets out to leave for good, accompanied by his temperamental best friend, former high school football star Billy Poe, they are caught up in a terrible act of violence that changes their lives forever. Evoking John Steinbeck's novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, American Rust takes us into the contemporary American heartland at a moment of profound unrest and uncertainty about the future. It is a dark but lucid vision, a moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence and the power of love and friendship to redeem us.
©2009 Philipp Meyer (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC
Der erste Sohn
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Das literarische Ereignis des Jahres - Das große Epos über den Gründungsmythos Amerikas: Eli McCullough ist der erste Sohn der neuen Republik Texas, die am 2. März 1836 gegründet wird. Seine Eltern gehören zu jenen Siedlern, die sich ins Indianerland vorwagen, ein Paradies, das alles verheißt - nur keine Sicherheit. Bei einem Überfall wird seine Familie ausgelöscht. Eli wird verschleppt und wächst bei Indianern auf. Als diese dem Druck der Weißen nicht mehr standhalten können, kehrt er zurück in eine ihm fremd gewordene Welt. Mit Härte gegen sich und andere, mit Cleverness, Skrupellosigkeit und Wagemut begründet er eine Dynastie, die durch Viehzucht und Öl zu immensem Reichtum und politischer Macht kommt. Doch Elis Nachfahren drohen an seinem Vermächtnis zu zerbrechen...
©2014 Knaus (P)2014 Der Hörverlag