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    The Punch
    The Punch
    The Punch
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Punch

    Written by Noah Hawley

    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    "No reader should pass this by." -- Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less

    Joe Henry was the glue that held his family together. Now he is dead, and his wife and sons are coming together for one final journey to scatter his ashes. First, however, his loved ones have some things to work out.
    David, the older son, believes that any minute his life is going to fall apart and everyone he loves will leave him. His brother Scott can't shake the belief that at heart, people are inherently rotten. Doris, their mother, just doesn't believe in anything anymore.
    Wickedly funny and biting, The Punch is an essential exploration of modern American grief, family violence, and redemption from the bestselling author of Before the Fall and creator of the Emmy award-winning series FARGO.
    "Noah Hawley really knows how to keep a reader turning the pages." -- New York Times
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateOct 16, 2018
    ISBN9781549113642
    The Punch
    Author

    Noah Hawley

    Noah Hawley is a screenwriter, filmmaker and photographer. He has directed two short films for the Fox Searchlab new director development program. His first novel, A Conspiracy of Tall Men, was optioned by Paramount. Noah Hawley adapted the screenplay. He has published stories in The Paris Review. He lives in San Francisco.

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    • 3/5
      This is a really tough one to review. 3.5 stars. I was interested at the very beginning and then I lost interest. I kept with it though and then it got interesting again at the very end. At the point where I got bored I found myself asking “what is this book even about?” Part of what kept me reading was that there were quite a few times I actually laughed out loud-definitely some funny moments and waiting for mom’s scenes almost makes it worth getting past the boring ones.
    • 5/5
      This is an offbeat story of family conflicts, an almost flawless blend of humor and pathos. Mother Doris and son David have parallel secrets. Father Joe is dead, and the family assembles for a service and to scatter his ashes at a beloved island in Maine. Younger brother Scott's job is as THE monitor, as in "this call may be monitored for...". The book opens with a recap of the circumstances leading to David breaking his hand on Scott's nose, also broken. There's also coolest pickup move ever done, back in 1961 when there were no cell phones ("Excuse me, Miss, there's a call for you.") . And God, unsuccessfully, tries to insert himself into the proceedings. And there's a brief musing on time and chaos, in this novel everyone could love and enjoy.

      Quotes: "His father's ashes sit in the center of the table, next to a container of Mongolian beef."

      "His mother lives on the moon, on an asteroid orbiting high above Earth, and now that her husband is dead, she is alone there, spinning around on a cold, lifeless rock, stuck on the dark side of the planet."

      "This is the Catch-22 of New York. Just when you decide you can't stand it for another second, something magical happens."