McGlue: A Novella (Unabridged)
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3.3 • 4 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
The debut novella from one of contemporary fiction's most exciting young voices, now in a new edition.
Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientation--he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory accompanies sobriety. A-sail on the high seas of literary tradition, Ottessa Moshfegh gives us a nasty heartless blackguard on a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs of recollection.
They said I've done something wrong? . . . And they've just left me down here to starve. They'll see this inanition and be so damned they'll fall to my feet and pass up hot cross buns slathered in fresh butter and beg I forgive them. All of them . . . : the entire world one by one. Like a good priest I'll pat their heads and nod. I'll dunk my skull into a barrel of gin.
Customer Reviews
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Maybe one of my all time least favorite narrations of an audiobook that I’ve finished. I struggled to get through it because of the narrator’s delivery. My girlfriend gave up entirely. We both listen to a ton of audiobooks, and usually I’d call it quits but I like the author and wanted to get through it. I’d recommend the audiobook for Eileen or reading this instead since it’s quite short. 3 stars for the story. Zero for narration. Buyer beware.