For you."Īt the same time as being down-to-earth and humorous, Snapper is suffused with a certain melancholy, and it is Kimberling's expert balancing of all these elements that allows the novel's insights – into who we are and where we come from – to hit home. When Nathan half-seriously proposes that he and Lola get married, imagining her with his surname, she replies: "Your name is lovely. Nathan's relationship with an impossible redhead, Lola, who does not love him as much as he loves her, is the novel's romantic refrain: Nathan carves her name into dozens of hardwood tree trunks, "commemorating Lola everywhere with towering solemnity", but disappointment is never far away. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Visual indication that the title is an audiobook. Even when he moves away from his home town, Nathan cannot quite escape the place that shaped him. Snapper audiobook (Unabridged) By Brian Kimberling.
the poignant, all-too-human recollections of an affable bird researcher in the. Kimberling creates these unlikely anecdotes with a light touch, ensuring they are witty, observant and critical all at the same time. NPRs Best Books of the Year 2013A great, hilarious new voice in fiction.
From Nathan's perspective, Indiana is an enchanting mess of contradictions, "my own lifelong imbroglio", a place where thumbs risk being nipped off by turtles, the Ku Klux Klan might invite you round for tea and where present requests to the town of Santa Claus always get an answer.
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