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    Tietam Brown

    Published by Penguin Random House Audio

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A remarkable debut novel-given extraordinary life by its amalgam of energy, raw authentic language, and, at the core, a surprising gentleness.

    It is the work of the constantly amazing wrestler-writer Mick Foley, whose two volumes of autobiography, Have a Nice Day! and Foley Is Good, were each number one on the New York Times National Best-seller List.
    It tells the story and speaks in the voice-at once innocent and too knowing for his age-of Antietam (Andy) Brown, named for the great-great-great- grandfather who died on that Civil War battlefield. Andy at seventeen is himself the veteran of a violent boyhood, having been locked up in the Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Center for killing a teenager who attempted to rape him.

    Now, after seven years, he is out, free, at a crossroads, trying to make a fresh start, to fit into the life of Conestoga High School in the small upstate New York town to which he has been brought by his father-absent from his life since he was a month old. The man is certainly charismatic. He is also crude, apparently addicted to bodybuilding, beer swilling, and (his own words for his serial womanizing) "bareback riding." He has no visible job, no known past.

    Associated by the town with his father's coarseness, hectored by the boorish football coach and the coach's pack of steroid-pumping teens, feeling himself losing ground, Andy is stunned to discover that the most popular girl in town is attracted to him. Terri, the homecoming queen, the school beauty, every boy's dream girl, a born-again Christian, a really nice girl. Andy can't believe it. He is immediately head over heels in love-first love-and determined to protect Terri from everything bad on earth. Worried that his father, even he himself, might contaminate her, and determined for her sake to discover what his father is, Andy begins to delve into the locked rooms and dangerous currents of the elder Tietam Brown's past and present.
    What happens is told in a novel that is appealingly direct, moving, and altogether pleasurable in its superb storytelling and celebration of the human spirit.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 8, 2003
    ISBN9780739304440
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    • 3/5
      I enjoyed it, reminded me a little of Owen Meany (not sure why!). It's a little too 'gritty' for me though.
    • 5/5
      Let's start this review off by stating a few things about myself. I am an avid wrestling fan, and have always counted as Mick Foley as one of the most entertaining wrestlers around in the last decade. I have also read '"Have a Nice Day; A Tale of Blood & Sweat socks", and "Foley is Good; And The Real World is faker than wrestling", until I have had to throw them out, because they are so crinkled, and the spines of the books have fallen apart. If you have read any of his two autobiographys, the first thing you'll notice is Antietam Brown V (or Andy for short) is Mick Foley. He speaks like Mick Foley, he thinks like Mick Foley. Hell he is missing half an ear, like Mick Foley. Foley has a very distinct sense of humor, which Andy takes on. In this aspect, I believe that this book would be a better read to someone who had never read anything Foley before. However as the book continues and the plot picks you in, you notice this issue less and less.This book isn't for the faint of heart. Nothing ever goes well for Andy, and when-ever he takes one step forward, he seems to take three steps back. This book investigates whether we are to blame for the situations we find ourself in, and also whether it can be inherited, or passed on from your family.This book is told through the point of view of Andy, but the real interesting character, and probably what the title of this book is about is about his father, coincidentaly also called Antietam Brown; this time Antietam Brown IV (or Tietam for this review). From the beginning of the book we see Tietam as not the greatest father. He contacts his kid after not seeing him for near 17 years. However they start to grow on each other. Andy is intrigued by Tietam's bizzare ways. From his nude press-up ritual in the intermission through his almost nightly sexscapades with the town's married women. However as time goes on, and events happen he starts to see his father as a very peciular figure.Foley injects a little bit of wrestling folklore into his book. It only goes on for a few pages, doesn't dominate the book, and really does add to the greater story. All in all, I give this book a solid 4.5 stars. I really couldn't put this book down, and it tells a very beautiful, but extremely disturbing story about interesting characters. Foley manages to get you to invest emotion in his characters, and really brings his unique characters to life. Highly reccommended. :-)(And probably more to come, and more to be refined in this review at a later time :-))
    • 2/5
      Tietam Brown is molested by his foster father.