Big Bang
Contributors
Read by L. J. Ganser
By David Bowman
Introduction by Jonathan Lethem
Also available from:
- On Sale
- Jan 15, 2019
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- ISBN-13
- 9781478922520
Set in the 1950’s, this epic, Warholian novel presents a brilliant and wholly original take on the years leading up to the Kennedy assassination.
In this hilarious, lightning-fast historical novel, Bowman follows the most famous couples of the decade as their lives are torn apart by post-war’s new normal. We see Lucille Ball’s bizarre interrogation by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee and Jackie Onassis’ moonlight cruise with Frank Sinatra . We follow Norman Mailer and Arthur Miller as they attempt to get quickie divorces together at a loophole resort in Nevada and watch a young Howard Hunt snoop around South America with the newly founded CIA. A young Jimi Hendrix, now the epitome of counterculture cool, tries his luck as a clean cut army recruit.
Written with an almost documentary film like intensity, BIG BANG is a posthumous work from the award-winning author of Let the Dog Drive. A riotous account of a country, perhaps, at the beginning of the end.
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"During this vast assembly, there are plenty of examples of Bowman's talent....In all of his novels, there's vitality, humor and imagination that deserve to be remembered."New York Times
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"There are dozens of plots, which Bowman juggles with an agility that's breathtaking... he writes with a real focus... His prose is elegant but stubbornly unshowy. "Big Bang" is a stunningly accomplished novel, both deeply American and deeply weird."Los Angeles Times
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"Big Bang is a historical novel like no other I've read. Alternately sharp and generous, it is not so much a recitation verité as an emceed re-enactment of key events of the 50s and early 60s."Susan Isaacs, New York Times bestselling author of Goldberg Variations and As Husbands Go
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