Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash
Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash
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Stephen Florida

Author: Gabe Habash

Narrator: Will Damron

Unabridged: 11 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/06/2017

Categories: Fiction, Psychological


Synopsis

Foxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding, Stephen Florida follows a college wrestler in his senior season, when every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. Profane, manic, and tipping into the uncanny, Stephen Florida a story of loneliness, obsession, and the drive to leave a mark.

About Gabe Habash

Gabe Habash is the fiction reviews editor for Publishers Weekly. He holds an MFA from New York University and lives in New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Roxane

What a strange, strange, utterly intriguing novel. The prose style is so staccato, so relentless in its commitment to be what it is. This is not a book that is going to cater to the reader or to anyone's expectations of what a novel should be, how a protagonist should be, how a story should read. Th......more

Goodreads review by Adam

Barring a miracle, this is going to be my favorite book of the year - a totally unique wildchild of a novel tracking the senior year of a 133 pound division IV wrestler in North Dakota. We're firmly in Stephen's head the whole way, and Habash has created a unique voice here, an amalgam of obsession,......more

Goodreads review by Michael

Gabe Habash has constructed one of the most interesting and convincing character studies with STEPHEN FLORIDA that I've read in recent memory. Young college wrestler, Stephen Florida, is indeed a troubled young man. Picture a more modern, violent, and focused Holden Caulfield suited up in a onesie a......more