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The Lonely Polygamist

Written by: Brady Udall
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
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Publisher's Summary

Brady Udall is the acclaimed author of the internationally best-selling The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint. In The Lonely Polygamist, Udall pens a tragicomic tale starring Golden Richards - who, despite having four wives and 28 children, hasn’t quite found fulfillment in life.

Like other men in the midst of a mid-life crisis, Golden feels as though he’s drowning. His wives squabble amongst themselves, and he hardly has time for all his children - least of all the 11-year-old who’s taken a keen interest in explosives. And now his construction business is struggling. Yet even after Golden falls in love again and takes a mistress to alleviate his pain, life continues to fall short of expectations.

Udall’s skillfully observed tale is “as comic as it is sublimely catastrophic.” (Publishers Weekly).

©2010 Brady Udall (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC
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What the critics say

“One of the best novels I’ve read in a while . . . Golden Richards, middle-aged, 6-foot-6 polygamist with an overbite, is one of the most appealing, original, and brilliantly tragicomic protagonists to appear in American fiction in some time.” ( Newsday)
“A wry, sympathetic portrait of a spectacularly dysfunctional family.” ( The New Yorker)
“A thick, transporting, critically hailed novel from which you emerge, blinking but sated, into the real world.” ( Miami Herald)

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Great story, great reader

I first read this book ten years ago, and I was pleased to see it was “included” with Audible, so I downloaded it and enjoyed it even more than the first time. Kudos to the wonderful performer of this very special book.

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