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    Brown
    Brown
    Brown
    Audiobook5 hours

    Brown

    Written by James Polster

    Narrated by Brian Holsopple

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Former Boston sportswriter McGee Brown is traveling cross-country with his fiancée when they call it quits somewhere around Nevada. With no job and no girl, Brown pushes on to California, where a fruitless job hunt lands him on his old buddy Fillmore’s doorstep. Fillmore is an accomplished clinical psychologist (and part-time bartender) whose own sanity is questionable at best. So it is only fitting when Fillmore suggests the solution to Brown’s financial woes is for him to become a psychologist as well—albeit, not a licensed one. (“This is California, man. It doesn’t matter.”) “Dr. Brown” agrees. His first patient is a beautiful but unhappy woman who suspects her wealthy financier husband is plotting to kill her. Days later, she’s found dead in a gorilla cage, her daughter goes missing, and Brown is hired to find her. The sportswriter-turned psychologist turns private detective. With the sardonic, oft-inebriated Fillmore at his side, Brown delves headfirst into what the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle praised as “a surreal, picaresque romp through the alienating landscape of contemporary culture.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateNov 27, 2012
    ISBN9781469243016
    Brown
    Author

    James Polster

    Equal parts novelist, journalist, explorer, and movie producer, James Polster draws on his rich cultural experiences to craft highly entertaining stories with social significance. From profiling Indira Gandhi and Donald Trump, to covering the World Championship of Elephant Polo in Nepal, to navigating the Amazon River and living among jungle cannibals, Polster’s adventures have given him a unique perspective on life that infuses his work with witty depth. A graduate of Harvard and Columbia universities, Polster has written A Guest in the Jungle, The Graduate Student, and Brown, which received the Critics’ Choice Award and was named by Publishers Weekly as a Best Book of the Year. He lives in Los Angeles.

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    • 4/5
      James Polster’s novel Brown is similar to the work of Carl Hiaasen and the Myron Bolitar novels of Harlan Coben. It is filled with quirky characters who involve themselves in outrageous adventures. The narrator Brown is a former sports writer turned unwilling detective while pretending to be a psychologist. Together with his real psychologist friend Fillmore, the characters drink their way through sexual encounters, murders, kidnapping, jail breaks, and confinement in a mental hospital.The novel is funny and divided into short fast-paced chapters. If you like Hiaasen novels about bizarre politicians and Coben’s Bolitar novels involving a wise-cracking sports agent who gets involved in detective work, you will be happy with Brown.
    • 4/5
      James Polster’s novel Brown is similar to the work of Carl Hiaasen and the Myron Bolitar novels of Harlan Coben. It is filled with quirky characters who involve themselves in outrageous adventures. The narrator Brown is a former sports writer turned unwilling detective while pretending to be a psychologist. Together with his real psychologist friend Fillmore, the characters drink their way through sexual encounters, murders, kidnapping, jail breaks, and confinement in a mental hospital.The novel is funny and divided into short fast-paced chapters. If you like Hiaasen novels about bizarre politicians and Coben’s Bolitar novels involving a wise-cracking sports agent who gets involved in detective work, you will be happy with Brown.