Gone So Long cover art

Gone So Long

 Preview

Audible Standard 30-day free trial

Try Standard free
Select 1 audiobook a month from our entire collection of 900K+ titles.
Listen to your selected audiobooks as long as you're a member.
Get unlimited access to bingeable podcasts.
Standard auto-renews for $8.99/mo + applicable taxes after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Gone So Long

Written by: Andre Dubus III
Narrated by: Andre Dubus III
Try Standard free

$8.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $27.12

Buy Now for $27.12

About this listen

Andre Dubus III’s first novel in a decade is a masterpiece of thrilling tension and heartrending empathy. Few writers can enter their characters so completely or evoke their lives as viscerally as Andre Dubus III. In this deeply compelling new novel, a father, estranged for the worst of reasons, is driven to seek out the daughter he has not seen in decades.

Daniel Ahearn lives a quiet, solitary existence in a seaside New England town. Forty years ago, following a shocking act of impulsive violence on his part, his daughter, Susan, was ripped from his arms by police.

Now in her 40s, Susan still suffers from the trauma of a night she doesn’t remember, as she struggles to feel settled, to love a man, and create something that lasts. Lois, her maternal grandmother who raised her, tries to find peace in her antique shop in a quaint Florida town but cannot escape her own anger, bitterness, and fear.

Cathartic, affirming, and steeped in the empathy and precise observations of character for which Dubus is celebrated, Gone so Long explores how the wounds of the past afflict the people we become and probes the limits of recovery and absolution.

©2018 Andre Dubus III (P)2018 Recorded Books Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction Heartfelt Compassion
All stars
Most Relevant
I had to pump up the speed (2.5X), and that really improved the narration. Pick up if you are looking for a slow burning story.

Sad story.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Andre Dubus III is my favourite author.

His characters are so painfully authentic and captivating: they are flawed people doing their best to cope with the chaos of their lives.

I think I like Dubus so much because beauty is always so inexplicit in his works. He never hands it to you. The reader must look for beautiful things amidst the sorrow that comes with living. If that is not a lesson, I am not sure what is.

Thank you, Mr. Dubus. You have helped me grow up a lot over the years.

As good as it gets

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.