Helpful Score: 1
At first I didn't think I would enjoy a story based in Mississippi but, boy, was I wrong. Although I finished listening to the audio book version of TURNING ANGEL weeks ago, I think about the story often. Dick Hill did a superb job of narrating the action and the emotions of the characters in this story. I intended to listen to the story once and then donate the audiobook to our local library, but I haven't been able to pass it on because I want to listen to it again. It was a good story ....
Audio Review:
A female high school superstar is raped and murdered in Natchez, Mississippi. Suspicion falls on her lover, a married doctor who is the friend of narrator/writer/lawyer Penn Cage. Dick Hill wraps this first-person narrative in a soft Southern accent and makes the most of the opportunity the plot offers to bring to life a 9-year-old daughter, an African-American drug lord, the doctor's chemically dependent wife, local lawmen, a Yankee professor, and a Croatian exchange student grown beyond his years. At one point, Cage is held captive and injected with heroin, the effects of which he painfully describes. The plot twists might strain your imagination, but the characters ring true--thanks to a tour-de-force performance. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award. -- AudioFile
A female high school superstar is raped and murdered in Natchez, Mississippi. Suspicion falls on her lover, a married doctor who is the friend of narrator/writer/lawyer Penn Cage. Dick Hill wraps this first-person narrative in a soft Southern accent and makes the most of the opportunity the plot offers to bring to life a 9-year-old daughter, an African-American drug lord, the doctor's chemically dependent wife, local lawmen, a Yankee professor, and a Croatian exchange student grown beyond his years. At one point, Cage is held captive and injected with heroin, the effects of which he painfully describes. The plot twists might strain your imagination, but the characters ring true--thanks to a tour-de-force performance. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award. -- AudioFile
Unabridged on 14 compact discs.
