The Crash Palace

Name: The Crash Palace
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Andrew Wedderburn
ISBN: 9781770566965

Author: Andrew Wedderburn

Narrator: Cara Volchoff

Unabridged: 8 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 02/15/2020

Categories: Fiction, Small Town & Rural, Literary Fiction, Coming Of Age

Synopsis

A joy ride set on a crash course with the past. Audrey Cole has always loved to drive. Anytime, anywhere, any car: a questionable rustbucket, a family sedan, the SUV she was paid to drive around the oil fields. From the second she learned to drive, she’s always found a way to hit the road. Years ago, when she abandoned her oil field job, she found herself chauffeuring around the Lever Men, a B-list band relegated to playing empty dive bars in far-flung towns. That’s how she found herself at the Crash Palace, an isolated lodge outside the big city where people pay to party in the wilderness. And now, one night, while her young daughter is asleep at home, Audrey is struck by that old urge and finds herself testing the doors of parked cars in her neighbourhood. Before she knows it, she’s headed north in the dead of winter to the now abandoned Crash Palace in a stolen car, unable to stop herself from confronting her past The Crash Palace is a funny, moving, and surprising novel by the author of the Amazon First Novel Award-nominated The Milk Chicken Bomb. Audrey is unlike any character you’ve met before, and you'll love being along for the ride.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on February 07, 2021

This was wonderful. I got a huge thrill in recognizing so much of the setting and details from my own world — it largely takes place in the city I live in, I used to be heavily involved in the music scene, the author was a close friend of mine in my early 20s (and still a friend, though I don't seem......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on May 31, 2021

The prose is spectacular...but it's ultimately in aid of (1) a main character I didn't find in any way sympathetic, and more often irritating and slightly pathetic, and (2) a story that ends very ambiguously, and in no way satisfies as a conclusion. That said, it's a credit to the author that I susp......more

Goodreads review by Bob on December 30, 2020

3.5 * Received the advanced copy from the publisher. I was at the point where I was going to give up on it (around page 50), then something shifted, I'm not sure what, so I stuck with it. Not sure the point of it, but it was quite odd, and somewhat enjoyable.......more

Goodreads review by Tonstant on January 21, 2021

The Crash Palace is well-written. The author creates a sense of mystery and urgency. Audrey Cole is obsessed with driving and as the narrative shifts in time, that obsession continues to drive her actions. In the past, she is a young woman discovering her obsession, finding a job driving at an oil s......more

Goodreads review by Ben on July 22, 2021

The Crash Palace is a contemporary coming of age written by Andrew Wedderburn. Audrey Lane, the headstrong young heroine is obsessed with everything about the open road. At 20, Audrey Lane gets her dream job driving a truck around the oil fields not far from Calgary, Alberta. Shortly after, she impul......more