It Happened in Boston?

Name: It Happened in Boston?
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Russell H. Greenan
ISBN: 9781481515207

Author: Russell H. Greenan, Jonathan Lethem

Narrator: Robert Fass

Unabridged: 10 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Robert Fass

Published: 12/17/2014

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Originally published in 1968 to critical acclaim, Russell H. Greenan's brilliant, audacious mystery novel It Happened in Boston? quickly became an underground sensation and has emerged over forty years later as a genuine cult classic.In this breathtakingly imaginative book—now appearing in audio for the first time—we enter the mind of an unnamed artist of prodigious talent and intelligence who is determined to correct the world's wrongs via a direct confrontation with the Almighty, no matter what the consequences. A spellbinding tale told by a memorably unreliable narrator, It Happened in Boston? places you inside a vivid world that brilliantly and surprisingly interweaves art, genius, love, madness, betrayal, God … and murder.In 2003 It Happened in Boston? was reprinted by the Modern Library with a new introduction by celebrated writer Jonathan Lethem and an afterword by the author, both included in this audio version.Cover design by Zoe Ann Lee

About Russell H. Greenan

Russell H. Greenan grew up in the Bronx and, on his way to becoming a novelist, served in the Navy, sold industrial engines, and ran several curio shops in the Boston area. His thirteen novels include The Secret Life of Algernon Pendleton and The Bric-a-Brac Man.

About Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem is the author of a number of critically acclaimed novels, including The Fortress of Solitude and the National Book Critics Circle Award winner Motherless Brooklyn. Lethem’s stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the New York Times, among others. He lives in New York City.

About Robert Fass

Robert Fass is a veteran actor and twice winner of the prestigious Audie Award for the year’s best narration. He has earned many Earphones Awards and AudioFile magazine “Best of the Year” accolades.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on February 03, 2009

I found this book in a thrift store in Texas. I had this tendency when I lived there to go to the thrift store and open books whose titles or covers or descriptions interested me and read the first chapter. If the first chapter grabbed me, I would generally pick up the book, as even the hard covers......more

Goodreads review by Jack on January 29, 2016

This is the single most influential book - influential, that is, on my own reading tastes - that I've ever read. It has one of the most compelling opening lines in any novel ever written. and it just gets better with each page. The quality of the prose alone is enough to make it worth reading. It has......more

Goodreads review by Paul on February 20, 2017

After finishing, I read through so many five star reviews and they really surprised me. I was further surprised by the number of people who mentioned how fantastic and compelling the opening line was. I had to actually go back to look at it and try to work out why reviewers felt so in love with it.......more

Goodreads review by Jack on November 09, 2016

A great novel which crosses genres, breaks rules, pushes boundaries, and ends with a breathtaking deus ex machina - and actually gets away with it! It contains horror for the horror fan, suspense for the thriller fan, and more than enough profound thought for those who want to be challenged intellect......more

Goodreads review by SmartAleq on November 09, 2008

I just recently rediscovered Russell Greenan--I read this book when I was a kid (book was published in 1968 and I had the paperback so I probably first read it in '69 or so) because my mom handed it to me--what was she thinking?! I mean, just because the protagonist is a serial killer, that's no rea......more

Quotes

“Superbly macabre and satisfying.” New York Times

“It has all the terror and excitement of a Hitchcock thriller.” Boston Sunday Globe

“A book so astonishing that I’ll listen over and again, rewinding whole chapters…Russell Greenan’s It Happened in Boston? is that masterpiece…a startling treasure.” BookandFilmGlobe.com

“His voice is appropriately and frighteningly calm, with a detached kindness and a palpable hint of condescension toward the listener—until the frenetic plunge toward the end, where he seems to vibrate with tension.” Locus (audio review)

“Narrator Fass brings his best to his reading of this appealingly quirky first novel…that pulls the listener gently into his increasingly irrational world.” Publishers Weekly (audio review)

“The main character remains anonymous, but Fass quickly establishes his persona and effectively conveys his edgy emotional state and increasingly bizarre behavior.” AudioFile

“It has that most exhilarating of qualities: the power to reawaken our sense of life’s possibilities.” Anne Tyler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Breathing Lessons