And It Will Be a Beautiful Life, Craig Lancaster
And It Will Be a Beautiful Life, Craig Lancaster
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And It Will Be a Beautiful Life

Author: Craig Lancaster

Narrator: Don Amodio

Unabridged: 10 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/08/2021


Synopsis

Max Wendt has a family . . . but it's sliding sideways, and he has been complicit in its faltering. His wife and his daughter have pulled away from him amid his frequent absences, leaving him to bridge the distance between what he remembers and the way things are now.
Max Wendt has a job . . . but it carries him away from home most of the time, and its dynamics are quickly changing. There's a surprising new hire on his pipeline crew, strife among coworkers, and a boss whose proclivities put everything in peril.
Max Wendt has a friend . . . but this odd man Max meets during his travels perplexes him, prods him, pushes him, and annoys him. He sees something in Max that Max can't see in himself, and he's holding tight to his own pain.
Max Wendt has a problem . . . More than one, in fact, and those problems are flying at him with increasing velocity. Can someone who has spent his life going with the flow arrest his own destructive inertia, rebuild his relationships, and find a better way?

About Craig Lancaster

Craig Lancaster is a journalist who has worked at newspapers all over the country, including the San Jose Mercury News, where he served as lead editor for the paper’s coverage of the BALCO steroids scandal. He wrote 600 Hours of Edward—winner of a Montana Book Award honorable mention and a High Plains Book Award—in less than 600 hours during National Novel Writing Month in 2008. His other books include the novel The Summer Son and the short story collection Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure. Lancaster lives in Billings, Montana.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Susanne on March 28, 2021

Review also posted on the Blog: [URL not allowed] Max Wendt works in Pipeline Transportation on the PIG using Pipeline Inspection Gauges to inspect and perform maintenance on pipelines. This work often takes him away from home and away from his wife and his daughter Alexandria,......more

Goodreads review by Maddy on May 29, 2021

I have loved Craig Lancaster's other books, and I really enjoyed this one, however I didn't fall in love with it. Max has a wife and daughter who he loves, but really doesn't spend much time with, as his job takes him all over the country much of the time. Max loves his job, although it's not one most......more

Goodreads review by Jim on June 08, 2021

A lot of us will recognize Max Wendt in our lives — or in ourselves: the person whose continental drift through life into the muddiest middlest of middle age has created a complacency that forces others to move around him in order to keep breathing. In this case, the career-long "pig tracker" whose......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on September 26, 2022

An excellent story. The best book I’ve read in a long time.......more

Goodreads review by Cindy on June 26, 2021

Craig Lancaster has done it again! He knows how to write a wonderful, heartwarming story without being predictable. The characters are, in most ways, just normal people. But, little by little, you discover how special they are. You feel as though you are just a part of their day-to-day routines, the......more