Driving on the Rim - Thomas McGuane

Category: Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Psychological Rural

Written by Thomas McGuane
Read by Traber Burns
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Mixed
Unabridged

The unforgettable voyager of this dark picaresque is I. B. “Berl” Pickett, M.D., whose die was probably cast the moment his mother thought to name him after Irving Berlin. Other insults piled on apace thereafter: the spasms of Pentecostal Sunday worship; the social debilitation of following his parents’ itinerant rug-shampooing business; the erotic initiation at the hands of his aunt. It’s hard to imagine what would have become of him had he not gone to medical school.

But there must be meaning to existence beyond professional accreditation, and though scantly equipped, Berl Pickett has been on a mission to find it, despite being charged with negligent homicide in the death of his former lover. Will he at last find his spiritual awakening?

November 1 2010
12 hrs and 43 mins