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Title: The Slide: A Novel
Author: Kyle Beachy
Narrator: Tom Schiff
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-30-11
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Potter Mays retreats immediately after college graduation to the safe house of his childhood home. Like clockwork each morning, his mother makes him eggs, lovingly fried into hollowed-out pieces of toast. His father, in the midst of a campaign to revitalize downtown St. Louis, promises to "poke around" for gainful employment for his son. Potter's best friend, Stuart - an "Independent Thought Contractor" working out of his parents' lavish pool house - is willing to serve as a kind of life coach, provided, of course, that Potter pays for his services all summer. However... Altogether elsewhere, Potter's (former? future?) girlfriend, Audrey, is backpacking around Europe with her beautiful bisexual traveling companion, Carmel. Potter was not invited, and getting a good night's sleep has recently become an issue for him. As enigmatic packages arrive from Audrey, the refuge of life at home soon proves illusory. Potter's parents are oddly never in the same room together, the neighbor girl is looking quite adult, and Stuart's much-needed counseling service is subcontracted to a third-party denizen of the pool house with an agenda all his own. And just what are those noises coming from the attic? Kyle Beachy has woven a uniquely affecting story of the long and hard, then quick and hard, struggle to grow up.
Members Reviews:
Long harsh boring
A long jaunt into the ennui of a pretentious liberal arts post grad. Very long winded, very painful to read.
Great book
I'm 22 years old and about to graduate college. This book initially caught my eye because of the similarities in age of the main character and myself. However, although Potter is much different than I am, I found that his character was extremely well developed, and that the both of us are thoroughly amused by sarcasm. I was seriously laughing out loud at certain parts of this book, and if you also have a dark sense of humor, you will too. You can bet yourself I'll be pre-ordering anything else that has been touched by the pen of Kyle Beachy.
A very solid debut!
The Slide is a really strong debut novel. I cared about Potter Mays and his sad parents. I found myself carving out odd chunks of time to get back to the book once I'd put it down. Kyle Beachy's a writer to watch.
Great Debut Novel
The Slide is a terrific debut novel. A middle American coming-of-age story with a dark sense of humor, not unlike The Graduate for the 21st century. Beachy is an incredible sentence-level writer and this is a fast-paced page-turner of a read.
Reversals
Read Kyle Beachy's debut novel, The Slide, on sunny days. Reflect too long on the many slides and reversals experienced by all the characters in this book and you're likely to join in their depression and loneliness. Protagonist Potter Mays has graduated college and moves back home uncertain of what's next. His parents seem to welcome him, but their marriage has been in a downward slide, perhaps ever since Potter's brother died years earlier as a child. Potter's girlfriend went from college to Europe on a weird quest with a bisexual friend. After some malaise that Beachy presents with fine descriptive language and wit, Potter gets a job delivering bottled water. Potter has insomnia, his dead brother appears to him as a ghost, he develops relationships with a sixteen year old neighbor and a lonely younger boy whom he met while delivering water.
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Title: The Slide: A Novel
Author: Kyle Beachy
Narrator: Tom Schiff
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-30-11
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Potter Mays retreats immediately after college graduation to the safe house of his childhood home. Like clockwork each morning, his mother makes him eggs, lovingly fried into hollowed-out pieces of toast. His father, in the midst of a campaign to revitalize downtown St. Louis, promises to "poke around" for gainful employment for his son. Potter's best friend, Stuart - an "Independent Thought Contractor" working out of his parents' lavish pool house - is willing to serve as a kind of life coach, provided, of course, that Potter pays for his services all summer. However... Altogether elsewhere, Potter's (former? future?) girlfriend, Audrey, is backpacking around Europe with her beautiful bisexual traveling companion, Carmel. Potter was not invited, and getting a good night's sleep has recently become an issue for him. As enigmatic packages arrive from Audrey, the refuge of life at home soon proves illusory. Potter's parents are oddly never in the same room together, the neighbor girl is looking quite adult, and Stuart's much-needed counseling service is subcontracted to a third-party denizen of the pool house with an agenda all his own. And just what are those noises coming from the attic? Kyle Beachy has woven a uniquely affecting story of the long and hard, then quick and hard, struggle to grow up.
Members Reviews:
Long harsh boring
A long jaunt into the ennui of a pretentious liberal arts post grad. Very long winded, very painful to read.
Great book
I'm 22 years old and about to graduate college. This book initially caught my eye because of the similarities in age of the main character and myself. However, although Potter is much different than I am, I found that his character was extremely well developed, and that the both of us are thoroughly amused by sarcasm. I was seriously laughing out loud at certain parts of this book, and if you also have a dark sense of humor, you will too. You can bet yourself I'll be pre-ordering anything else that has been touched by the pen of Kyle Beachy.
A very solid debut!
The Slide is a really strong debut novel. I cared about Potter Mays and his sad parents. I found myself carving out odd chunks of time to get back to the book once I'd put it down. Kyle Beachy's a writer to watch.
Great Debut Novel
The Slide is a terrific debut novel. A middle American coming-of-age story with a dark sense of humor, not unlike The Graduate for the 21st century. Beachy is an incredible sentence-level writer and this is a fast-paced page-turner of a read.
Reversals
Read Kyle Beachy's debut novel, The Slide, on sunny days. Reflect too long on the many slides and reversals experienced by all the characters in this book and you're likely to join in their depression and loneliness. Protagonist Potter Mays has graduated college and moves back home uncertain of what's next. His parents seem to welcome him, but their marriage has been in a downward slide, perhaps ever since Potter's brother died years earlier as a child. Potter's girlfriend went from college to Europe on a weird quest with a bisexual friend. After some malaise that Beachy presents with fine descriptive language and wit, Potter gets a job delivering bottled water. Potter has insomnia, his dead brother appears to him as a ghost, he develops relationships with a sixteen year old neighbor and a lonely younger boy whom he met while delivering water.