What Is Time to a Pig?, John Straley
What Is Time to a Pig?, John Straley
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What Is Time to a Pig?

Author: John Straley

Narrator: T. Ryder Smith

Unabridged: 7 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/04/2020

Categories: Fiction, Crime


Synopsis

From the wild and wonderful mind of Shamus Award–winning author John Straley comes a poetic masterpiece that explores the ugly truths of the prison industrial complex, the crumbling state of humanity, the role memory plays in the formation of the self, and much more.

It’s been seven years since Gloomy Knob landed in the Ted Stevens High-Security Federal Penitentiary and five years since the end of the war, the one North Korea started when they sent a missile to Cold Storage, Alaska. Serving a life sentence for the murder of his sister, Gloomy spends histime trying to forget about the past.

Then one day, Gloomy is snatched from his off-site work station. Instead of celebrating his newfound freedom, Gloomy comes unmoored—he feels he belongs in prison. But his kidnappers believe Gloomy knows where a second nuclear warhead is hidden and demand to know where it is. The clock is ticking, and Gloomy knows he needs to find the missing warhead fast, or his wife, his friends, and the entire town of Cold Storage will be obliterated. The only problem is he has no idea where it is.

As Gloomy struggles to escape, the memories he fought hard to repress begin to creep out from the strange corners of his mind, first in rivulets, then in waves. In a drug-induced haze, Gloomy makes a discovery that may just bring him the closure he desires—if it doesn’t kill him first.

About John Straley

John Straley was
born in 1953, the youngest of five children. He received a BA in English and a
certificate of completion in horseshoeing. He enjoys jokes and a wide variety
of literature and music. He is the Shamus Award–winning author of The
Curious Eat Themselves and The Woman Who Married a Bear and
was appointed the Writer Laureate of Alaska in 2006. Straley lives with his
wife, Jan, a prominent whale biologist, in a bright green house on the beach in
Sitka, Alaska, where he works as a criminal defense investigator by day and
sleeps, writes, and plays with his band, the Big Fat Babies, whenever he can.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Joshua on December 05, 2019

Despite an fascinating blurb and a good start, it really did not live up to the mark. Great blocks of text seemed to be wikipedia entries and didnt add anything to the story. Unfortunately something which I couldn't finish.......more

Goodreads review by Alison on May 09, 2020

A strange story that often makes no sense.......more

Goodreads review by Kasa on May 08, 2021

Started, stopped, gave another chance. Sorry, didn't finish. Disappointed since the previous Cold Storage novels were so witty and fun.......more

Goodreads review by James on January 21, 2023

I wasn’t going to read this one, based on ratings and reviews, but when I saw that a new Cold Storage book was coming out soon, I gave in, afraid I’d experience a discontinuity in the series if I skipped it. Mistake. I think a 3 star rating is a result of a generous mood, given the pleasure I’ve had......more

Goodreads review by Maggies on February 24, 2020

Gloomy has information about the location of a second nuclear war head some where in Cold Storage Alaska some where locked in his damaged brain. The authorities are so desperate to locate this ticking time bomb that they let Gloomy be sprung from prison in the hope of Gloomy leading them to the allu......more