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Aubrey McKee

By: Alex Pugsley
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
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I am from Halifax, salt-water city, a place of silted genius, sudden women, figures floating in all waters. “People from Halifax are all famous,” my sister Faith has said. “Because everyone in Halifax knows each other’s business.”

From basement rec rooms to midnight railway tracks, Action Transfers to Smarties boxes crammed with joints, from Paul McCartney on the kitchen radio to their furious teenaged cover of the Ramones, Aubrey McKee and his familiars navigate late adolescence amid the old-moneyed decadence of Halifax. An arcana of oddball angels, Alex Pugsley’s long-awaited debut novel follows rich-kid drug dealers and junior tennis brats, émigré heart surgeons and small-time thugs, renegade private-school girls and runaway children as they try to make sense of the city into which they’ve been born. Part coming-of-age-story, part social chronicle, and part study of the myths that define our growing up, Aubrey McKee introduces a breathtakingly original new voice.

©2020 Alex Pugsley (P)2020 Recorded Books Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural Heartfelt

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Edoardo Ballerinin is a great narrator. His amazing voice could make the phone book gripping, and it was his performance that made me follow this thin uninteresting story until the end. He brings to life thinly written characters and somehow manages to inject something way beyond the words. Overall a slight book given a turbo boost by another faultless performance by one of the truly remarkable narrators working today.

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