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    Estranged
    Estranged
    Estranged
    Audiobook11 hours

    Estranged

    Written by Charles Lamar Phillips

    Narrated by Jason Keller

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    In this stylish and gripping historical noir novel, Randall Harker—the controversial city editor of an established progressive daily in the urban Midwest of 1950—excites the wrath of a reckless, corrupt, and ambitious U.S. senator anxious to make a name for himself as the country’s most ardent anti-Communist. Decidedly flawed and afflicted by personal demons and political foes, Harker finds himself abandoned by friends and colleagues as he loses his wife, his reputation, and his job. He also finds himself losing the very sense of his own identity. With its gritty realism and dead-on period detail, the elegant prose of Estranged renders the rough-and-tumble world of mid-century journalism, the historical post-war battle between the Mob and trade unions, and the tender, intimate, and sensual moments of Harker’s desperate romantic escape from the nightmare that his personal and professional life has become. In a tale whose events and themes very much reverberate in Trump’s America, the novel addresses surprisingly contemporary concerns about gender, homosexuality, and sexism, although at an oblique, historical angle. This is a story that occurs at the intersection of public and private life, of love and work with politics and history.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEverand Productions
    Release dateAug 27, 2024
    ISBN9781094468945
    Author

    Charles Lamar Phillips

    Charles Lamar Phillips’s novel, Estranged, published by Regal House, won the New York City Big Book Award as a political thriller and was listed as a top mystery of the year by The Strand Mystery Magazine. Phillips’s collection of short stories, Dead South, was published by Fomite Press, and his fiction and literary work can be found in such journals as New England Review, Massachusetts Review, Cincinnati Review, Raritan, Fifth Wednesday, The Brooklyner, and The Chaffin Journal. His story “Show of Hands” received the Chaffin Award for Fiction, and his story collection “Long Odds” was a semi-finalist for the St Lawrence Book Award. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Phillips has been a writer, columnist or editor at Congressional Quarterly, The Washington Star, Higher Education and National Affairs, History News, and American History. Phillips is the managing editor of the American Journal of Play.

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