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Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Audiobook
Ed Tarkington's debut novel draws you into a small-town American Gothic story of coming-of-age, brotherhood, and family fealty, first love, scandal, and murder. In Virginia in the 1930s, 6-year-old Rocky lives in awe of Paul, his juvenile delinquent older brother, until Paul disappears with his delicate girlfriend Leigh. Nine years later we find a teenage Rocky discovering first love (and first sex) with the neighbors' daughter, trying to come into his own, discovering his own talents, when Leigh returns, more unstable than ever and full of secrets. Eventually, when their elderly father falls ill, Paul returns to find a town — and a family — that cannot trust him. Just as the brothers begin to reclaim what was lost, a brutal murder threatens everything.

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Publisher: HighBridge Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781622318926
  • File size: 300921 KB
  • Release date: January 5, 2016
  • Duration: 10:26:55

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781622318926
  • File size: 301456 KB
  • Release date: January 5, 2016
  • Duration: 10:26:42
  • Number of parts: 10

Formats

OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook

subjects

Fiction Literature

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:900
Text Difficulty:4-5

Ed Tarkington's debut novel draws you into a small-town American Gothic story of coming-of-age, brotherhood, and family fealty, first love, scandal, and murder. In Virginia in the 1930s, 6-year-old Rocky lives in awe of Paul, his juvenile delinquent older brother, until Paul disappears with his delicate girlfriend Leigh. Nine years later we find a teenage Rocky discovering first love (and first sex) with the neighbors' daughter, trying to come into his own, discovering his own talents, when Leigh returns, more unstable than ever and full of secrets. Eventually, when their elderly father falls ill, Paul returns to find a town — and a family — that cannot trust him. Just as the brothers begin to reclaim what was lost, a brutal murder threatens everything.

Expand title description text
  • Details

    Publisher:
    HighBridge
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781622318926
    File size: 300921 KB
    Release date: January 5, 2016
    Duration: 10:26:55

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781622318926
    File size: 301456 KB
    Release date: January 5, 2016
    Duration: 10:26:42
    Number of parts: 10

  • Creators
  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    Lexile® Measure: 900
    Text Difficulty: 4-5
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Funding for additional materials was made possible by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.