Nashville Chrome by Rick Bass audiobook

Nashville Chrome

By Rick Bass
Read by Debra Monk

Recorded Books, Inc.

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 2 Formats: CD
  • 2 Formats: Library CD

  • ISBN: 9781664507296

  • ISBN: 9781664615120

Runtime: 9.21 Hours
Category: Fiction/Literary
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

A 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction

A Booklist Editors’ Choice in 2010

A 2010 ALA Notable Book for Fiction

The fiction of Rick Bass has been honored with O. Henry Awards, Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Nashville Chrome presents Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed Brown, a family act with a hit record sitting atop 1959's country music charts. The world at their feet, lives of success seem to spread out before them like an unending highway. But celebrity has its price, and the times ahead will deliver more than their fair share of bumps in the road.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Darkly engaging...richly written.” —Washington Post
“Bass creates a slice of music history from the ground up, from the backwoods and front porches all the way to Elvis.” —Los Angeles Times
“Splendid...Rick Bass’ best.”  —Dallas Morning News
“Rick Bass deftly weaves the true and fictional into a wonderful novel of the rise and fall of one of country music’s greatest acts—the Browns. It’s as lyrical, plaintive, and true as the best country music, which is exactly what the Browns made. Nashville Chrome is a great celebration of the Browns, and above all, a terrific read.” —Thomas Cobb, author of Crazy Heart
“But Rick Bass’ evocative detailing of the singers’ upbringing, rise to stardom, and heartbreaking fall...sweeps you along just as the real-life Browns’ music once carried away listeners.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Like the sound Chet Atkins pulls from the Browns in the studio, the narrative has a pitch-perfect chorus of longing and regret, with an undertone that connects and heals.” —Publishers Weekly
“An empathic, breath-catching, mythic, and profoundly American tale of creation, destruction, and renewal.” —Booklist (starred review)

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Author

Author Bio: Rick Bass

Author Bio: Rick Bass

Rick Bass is an American author of numerous award-winning works of fiction and nonfiction. His memoir Why I Came West was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His short fiction, which has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Esquire, and the Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes as well as NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. He was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana’s Yaak Valley for almost three decades.

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Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD
Category: Fiction/Literary
Runtime: 9.21
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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