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    Fay
    Fay
    Fay
    Audiobook17 hours

    Fay

    Written by Larry Brown

    Narrated by Tom Stechschulte

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    About this audiobook

    Larry Brown is hailed as one of today's most talented Southern writers. With the release of each book, including Dirty Work, Father and Son, and Joe, reviewers and fans offer increasingly enthusiastic praise for the astonishing characters he creates. At 17, Fay Jones leaves her family's squalid home with $3 in her bra and ragged sneakers on her feet. As she heads for Biloxi, people befriend her-a policeman, his wife, a bouncer-but her impact on their lives is seductive and unpredictable. Beautiful and naive, Fay becomes the catalyst in a chain reaction of desire and violence. Her journey provides unflinching snapshots of the South, from beaches to bar rooms. Wherever she lands, though, Fay is fueled by a deep-rooted will to survive. Narrator Tom Stechschulte voices every nuance of this unforgettable young woman's personality and her transient, often brutal, world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 11, 2008
    ISBN9781440799662
    Fay

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    • 5/5
      You can't help but fall in love with Fay...in the beginning. Despite being abused by animals and humans alike beautiful seventeen year old Fay Jones holds out hope she can be friends with either of them. Preferably both at some point in her young life. But for now she is eager to find Biloxi after running away from a potentially dangerous and definitely drunk father. With only the clothes on her back and two dollars hidden in her bra, she is uneducated and generous; thoughtful in a complicated and naive way. She'll trust anyone who can steer her in the right direction. You'll find yourself holding your breath as she hitches a ride with three drunk boys back to their trailer deep in the woods. You again become breathless when a cop picks her up and takes her home. Fay's ignorance makes people want to help her and hurt her all at the same time. I must admit, over time Fay's willingness (eagerness?) to fall in with some really bad people grew wearisome. She's either intensely shallow or so stupid she can't help herself. She doesn't recognize when someone is taking advantage of her. When she goes from being a blushing virgin to an easy lay in one week's time I felt myself losing interest in her fate and willing the character I did care about to stay away from her.Because Brown will make you care about some people. Even Fay.
    • 4/5
      The beginning of FAY was good, but certain parts happened almost too quickly, too conveniently. I don't want to write any spoilers, so I won't go into detail but just know it has to do with the relationship between Sam and his wife, Sam and Alessandra, and then Fay and Sam.

      Stick with it though, because you can't help but see how well Larry Brown captures the essence of his characters, their motivations, their inner psyche. In many cases, I found I could think of someone I knew just like Fay, Sam, Chris, Reena and Aaron. Larry Brown really knows how to write about blue collar folks, people who live one day to the next, never knowing what will come along to help them on their way, or hurt them so bad they want to give up. And that too, is what makes his writing work. Because his stories aren't about giving up.

      Like FAY. This isn't a story about a girl willing to just accept her lot in life and make the best of it. It's about a girl brave enough to walk away from something terrible, with only the inkling of a plan, no money, and no one to help. It's about perseverance, and hoping for the good in people to come through instead of the bad.
    • 5/5
      A friend of mine, knowing that I was a Larry Brown fan, gave me an autographed copy of Fay when it was first published. The first time I read it, I couldn't put it down until I finished it two and half days later. This was the South I had grown up in, and maybe didn't want to talk about, but knew wasn't very far away, and closer than I was willing to admit. Fay's journey through the trailers and strip bars and the various characters she interacts with makes this book eerily real. Brown's capacity to draw the reader's interest from the first word of Fay is one of the hallmarks that made him one of the great contemporary Southern writers.
    • 5/5
      This author develops some of the most incredible characters. It's the kind of book that stays with you long after you have finished it.
    • 4/5
      Excellent character development, amazing dialogue, good story. Would have given it a "5" but the 17-year-old virgin turned nympho parts got a little tiresome.
    • 5/5
      if you want to know the mississippi gulf coast and new orleans...read Fay. Larry Brown characters are people you see at the waffle house in Gulfport, MS or at least you used to see before Katrina.