The Trail of the Hawk by Sinclair Lewis audiobook.

Genre: comedy

Trail of the Hawk, narrated by Mike Vendetti aka Miketheauctioneer, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own name. It was not at the time of release a smashing success as his later works, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, and others, but his style and immense talent are certainly evident.

We travel with The Hawk, or Carl Ericson, son of Norwegian immigrants, born at the end of the 19th century through the first three adventurous periods of the young man’s life. We see him as an adventurous boy, running away with Gertie Cowels, the girl that lives in the big house in the better part of town, only to be rescued by Bone Stillman, a backwoods philosopher and influence on Carl.

We travel with him as he leaves his childhood, Gertie and Joralemon behind, for a short attempt at higher education, then to pursue the hobo life, a Bowery bartender, an engineer in Panama and an aviator. It is during the aviator phase that he becomes Hawk Ericson barnstorming his way across America, an exciting but dangerous lifestyle. Leaving aviation after too many close calls, and the loss of his best friend, he becomes an automobile man, and moves into phase three.

It is in phase three, love adventure, that we find The Hawk in New York, mingling with polite society quite by accident. He is smitten by Ruth Winslow, while riding on a streetcar after a fight with Gertie, and follows Ruth to a party which he crashes.

I truly enjoyed narrating this novel, and believe the listener will enjoy it, a trip into post Victorian, pre-Jazz Age America.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:25:15) Chapter 02

(00:46:02) Chapter 03

(01:05:01) Chapter 04

(01:26:29) Chapter 05

(01:51:49) Chapter 06

(02:17:29) Chapter 07

(02:31:03) Chapter 08

(02:47:39) Chapter 09

(03:15:58) Chapter 10

(03:27:17) Chapter 11

(03:45:47) Chapter 12

(04:05:11) Chapter 13

(04:20:47) Chapter 14

(04:42:20) Chapter 15

(05:02:59) Chapter 16

(05:15:58) Chapter 17

(05:25:57) Chapter 18

(05:40:45) Chapter 19

(05:51:11) Chapter 20

(06:06:04) Chapter 21

(06:36:16) Chapter 22

(06:51:44) Chapter 23

(07:15:21) Chapter 24

(07:28:42) Chapter 25

(07:50:44) Chapter 26

(08:03:26) Chapter 27

(08:30:28) Chapter 28

(08:47:54) Chapter 29

(09:12:55) Chapter 30

(09:27:24) Chapter 31

(09:47:30) Chapter 32

(10:07:01) Chapter 33

(10:37:37) Chapter 34

(10:55:28) Chapter 35

(11:13:24) Chapter 36

(11:34:00) Chapter 37

(11:54:50) Chapter 38

(12:06:13) Chapter 39

(12:28:47) Chapter 40

(12:45:28) Chapter 41

(13:13:43) Chapter 42

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