It Happened in Boston?

By Russell H. Greenan
Introduction by  Jonathan Lethem
Read by Robert Fass

unabridged

Format: CD (In Stock)
  • 4 Formats: CD
  • 4 Formats: Library CD
  • 4 Formats: MP3 CD
  • 4 Formats: Playaway

  • ISBN: 9781481515245

  • ISBN: 9781481515221

  • ISBN: 9781481515238

  • ISBN: 9781504606226

Runtime: 10.87 Hours
Category: Fiction
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

Originally published in 1968 to critical acclaim, Russell H. Greenan’s brilliant, audacious mystery novel It Happened in Boston? quickly became an underground sensation and has emerged over forty years later as a genuine cult classic. In this breathtakingly imaginative book—now appearing in audio for the first time—we enter the mind of an unnamed artist of prodigious talent and intelligence who is determined to correct the world’s wrongs via a direct confrontation with the Almighty, no matter what the consequences. A spellbinding tale told by a memorably unreliable narrator, It Happened in Boston? places you inside a vivid world that brilliantly and surprisingly interweaves art, genius, love, madness, betrayal, God … and murder.

In 2003 IHIB? was reprinted by the Modern Library with a new introduction by celebrated writer Jonathan Lethem and an afterword by the author, both included in this audio version.

Cover design by Zoë Ann Lee

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Apart from its originality and complexity, it has that most exhilarating of qualities: the power to reawaken our sense of life’s possibilities.” —Anne Tyler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Breathing Lessons
“Superbly macabre and satisfying.” —New York Times
“It has all the terror and excitement of a Hitchcock thriller.” —Boston Sunday Globe
“Greenan is a genius at macabre comedy.” —Washington Post
“This new audio production was a labor of love for narrator Robert Fass, whose work I so enjoyed in The Revisionists a few years ago. His voice is appropriately and frighteningly calm, with a detached kindness and a palpable hint of condescension toward the listener—until the frenetic plunge toward the end, where he seems to vibrate with tension.” —Locus (audio review)
“Veteran narrator Fass brings his best to his reading of this appealingly quirky first novel, which forty years after its first publication has gained cult classic status…He gives the anonymous artist a soft, respectable voice that pulls the listener gently into his increasingly irrational world.” —Publishers Weekly
“The brisk, clear narration offered by Robert Fass definitely assists the listener in this rerelease of Greenan’s 1968 novel…The main character remains anonymous, but Fass quickly establishes his persona and effectively conveys his edgy emotional state and increasingly bizarre behavior…Adventurous listeners will understand how this quirky offering and its author have gained a cult-like following.” —AudioFile

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Author

Author Bio: Russell H. Greenan

Russell H. Greenan, born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx, served in the US Navy during World War II before completing his college education at Long Island University in Brooklyn, where he studied world literature. In 1966, while in Nice, France, with his wife and three children, he wrote his first novel, It Happened in Boston?, which was published by Random House in 1968, has been translated into several languages, and was released in a new German translation in 2007. Mr. Greenan’s many other novels include The Secret Life of Algernon Pendleton, Nightmare, and The Bric-a-Brac Man. Though now well into his eighties, he continues to write.

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Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD, Playaway
Category: Fiction
Runtime: 10.87
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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