

Chasing Destiny
A Western Story
Author: Stephen Overholser
Narrator: Richard Powers
Unabridged: 6 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Western
Published: 04/09/2009
Author: Stephen Overholser
Narrator: Richard Powers
Unabridged: 6 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Western
Published: 04/09/2009
Stephen Overholser was born in Bend, Oregon, the son of Western author Wayne D. Overholser. He grew up in Boulder, Colorado, where he lives with his family.
Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory, and Bewilderment was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Well done story. Thematically reminded me (after the fact) of True Grit. An epic saga of a couple of pre-teen heroes on an adventure that would indeed have lasted in anyone's memory. The talent who read the Audiobook was skilled. Having driven across the country this book is set in, I could picture......more
It was a good enough book, just not outstanding in any way. But I also read it at a very unique time in my life when not much of anything was going to detract my attention from personal problems, so ... Yeah.......more
Read and enjoyed this lovely adventure-mystery. Very informative of life on the prairie, especially with changes coming [trains, etc.]. Sad and heartening. Contains profanity and sexual situations. Very REAL life. Forgot to date. Added this review to encourage others to read or listen to it. Free au......more
“A memorable novel that will be seen alternately as a triumph of human spirit or an example of the unfathomable cruelty of fate.”
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