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Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing
By Robin McLeanNarrated by Dion Graham, Sophie AmossLength7h 17m
About this audiobook
Dark, profane, and hilarious, yet ultimately humane, these ten stories are the latest and best of Robin McLean’s reports from the eternal battlefront that is the United States.
Ranging across the continent, from Alaska to Missouri, from the flatlands to the mountains, each tale is a snapshot of the political, racial, and sexual undercurrents roiling contemporary life, and each finds a way into the nerves and blood that pulse beneath the question of how to live a decent life.
Here you’ll find stolen children living life to the fullest on the run and on the road, soldiers guarding empty frontiers, and rugged individualists brought low by an uncaring nature. You’ll find prehistoric beasts rubbing talons with hustlers, as well as death machines lurking beneath the bucolic countryside. Here you’ll find hatred, friendship, and pitch-black humor all seething in the same stew.
Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing marries the sardonic moral and political explorations of a Flannery O’Connor to the surreal, scuzzy wit of a Denis Johnson. It is a brazen State of the Union for a nation on the edge.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.5 (241)
Includes Goodreads, StoryGraph, Amazon, LibraryThing
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length7 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byDion Graham, Sophie Amoss
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 18, 2022
LanguageEnglish
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