Heading Out to Wonderful

ISBN: 1611747635

Author: Goolrick, Robert

Condition: New

ReviewDietz . . . offers up strong and unique voices. . . . This is a first-rate audio production.-Publishers Weekly (Library Journal)Dietzs calm style adds to the sensuous descriptions while still creating the feeling that something bad is going to happen. The listener, lulled by Dietzs tender voice, will feel the horror of the plots climax as strongly as young Sam and the people of Brownsburg.-AudioFile (O, The Oprah magazine)A lyrical yet suspenseful novel for general fiction readers.-Library Journal (Family Circle)Deliciously dark and dangerous.-O, The Oprah Magazine (Washington Post)[A] soulful and heart wrenching tale of love that knows no bounds.-Family Circle (Lancaster Online)Goolrick is a writer with a big heart and a deft hand for drama. I look forward to whatever he pens next.-Washington Post (Booklist)A character-driven novel by Robert Goolrick, allows Dietz to offer listeners the full measure of a dramatic talent he honed during his decades in theater. Using low tones, near whispers-at turns urgent, reflective, matter of fact-Dietz describes an affair that consumes two people, shakes a town and permanently warps the young boy who witnesses it.-Lancaster Online (Ralph Magazine)Dietzs subtle southern accent matches his thoughtful pacing of Goolricks descriptive prose and expository speech.-BooklistI cant tell you . . . how entrancing the reading by Norman Dietz. Its one of the best narratives Ive ever run across. Dietzs voice is perfect, and perfectly engrossing. . . . I urge you to forego the pleasures of the page and seek out these eight CDs from HighBridge.-Ralph MagazineProduct DescriptionIn 1948, a mysterious and charismatic man arrives in a small Virginia town carrying two suitcases-one contains his worldly possessions, the other is full of money. He soon inserts himself into the towns daily life, taking a job in the local butcher shop and befriending the owner and his wife and their son. But the passion that develops between the man and the wife of the towns wealthiest citizen sets in motion a series of events that not only upset the quiet town but threaten to destroy both him and the woman.About the AuthorRobert Goolrick's first novel, A Reliable Wife, has sold over one million copies worldwide; he is also the author of the novels Heading Out to Wonderful, The Dying of the Light, and The Fall of Princes. He lives in Maryland.