Warlock

Name: Warlock
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2 (1 reviews)
Author: Jim Harrison
ISBN: 9781982681869

Author: Jim Harrison

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 6 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 06/25/2019

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Johnny Lundgren, a.k.a. Warlock, is an unemployed foundation executive who, after surviving a midlife crisis, finally decides to get a job. Warlock soon gets hired by a crazy but genius doctor as a trouble-shooter, where he’s tasked with everything from battling poachers in the haunted wilderness of northern Michigan to investigating his employer’s wife and son in the seamy underside of Key West. A comedy with one foot in the abyss, Warlock is what the New York Times called “farcical, reflective, luscious, gritty” entertainment from one of this country’s most beloved authors.

About Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison (1937–2016) was the author of over thirty-five books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including Legends of the Fall, The Road Home, The English Major, and The Farmer’s Daughter. His writing appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, and the New York Times. He earned a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Spirit of the West Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association. His work has been recognized worldwide and published in twenty-two languages.

About Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom, CBE, is an English film and stage actress, known for leading roles in plays such as Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll’s House, and Long Day’s Journey into Night, along with nearly sixty films and countless television roles, during a career spanning over six decades. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Queen’s birthday honors for services to drama.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on January 09, 2013

Well, probably or definitely not my favorite of Harrison's books, I'll let you be the judge of which. It's fun, but sort of like seeing your favorite band on a bad night. Not a bad time, but sort of meh. I didn't really buy (or even know/understand) how good a cook Warlock was, and his "descent" see......more

Goodreads review by M. on September 15, 2020

[URL not allowed] I am at a loss to explain why for the first time after reading this, and now re-reading several of Jim Harrison’s books, I have yet to highlight a sentence or phrase, and I am already at least twelve percent into it. My guess is that the sex-obsessed character......more

Goodreads review by A.J. on November 11, 2008

"Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch." With that sentence, you know you're squarely in a Jim Harrison novel, in the territory of food, sex, and Big Questions navigated by his strangely obtuse protagonists. Also, you're missing the comma you'd expect after "sometimes," a rhythmic tic that's al......more

Goodreads review by Rick on May 01, 2020

There is a tiny sliver of light when I think about the fact that Jim Harrison is dead, and that is there are many of his books I have not had the pleasure of reading yet. Harrison is a gift, his power to talk about food, booze, sex, art, nature, people, more food, and hunting is just overwhelming. T......more

Goodreads review by Tamara on August 18, 2007

Will always be one of my favorite books because it's an exaggerated adventure story, kinky, lacking a moral compass, and just a great read.......more

Quotes

“Warlock will not let Harrison’s following or reputation down…Intense sensitivity to the strangely fragile yet resistant constitution of the human psyche. A tour de force.” Booklist

“[Jim Harrison is] a writer with immortality in him.” Sunday Times (London)