Rick Gekoski has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators. The most-rated is Long Island Story [French Version].
A Long Island Story
Summary
It is 1953, a heat wave is sweeping across America and the Grossmans - Ben, Addie and their two children - are moving their lives from the political heart of Washington, DC to suburban Long Island. Benny was a successful lawyer in the Department of Justice, but all that has come tumbling down. With the McCarthy era of paranoia, persecution, and propaganda at its height, his past has come back to haunt him, forcing him to pack up his family and leave the capital behind. With their future uncertain, life in Long Island starts to open old wounds for Ben and Addie, and both start to wonder if they were meant for more, whether their future might look different than they planned and whether their marriage - their family - is worth fighting for.... A Long Island Story is a portrait of a marriage in crisis, of a unique and fascinating period in US history and of a seemingly perfect family fighting their demons behind closed doors.
©2018 Rick Gekoski (P)2018 Canongate Books Ltd
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Long Island Story [French Version]
Summary
Dans la lignée de Brooklyn de Colm Tóibín et de La Fenêtre panoramique de Richard Yates, la chronique subtile et nostalgique d'un couple en pleine crise, sur fond de persécution maccarthyste. Rick Gekoski livre un roman d'une maîtrise impressionnante, flirtant avec l'autofiction, une œuvre aussi douce-amère que lumineuse. En cet été caniculaire 1953, les Grossman déménagent, préférant quitter l'agitation politique de Washington pour une tranquille vie de banlieue à Long Island. L'occasion pour eux de s'éloigner de la paranoïa anticommuniste, de regarder enfin grandir les enfants, de se retrouver. Mais cet été qui n'en finit plus de languir va révéler de profondes failles. L'ennui s'installe et, avec lui, les non-dits, les infidélités, les frustrations. Quoi ? Est-ce là tout ce que la vie a à leur offrir ? Pourquoi le couple est-il venu se terrer ici ? Que partagent-ils encore qui vaille la peine de se battre ?
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