Last week we shared
details of our first-ever audiobook:
The Horizontal Man by Helen Eustis, a 1946 novel included in our upcoming two-volume anthology
Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s.
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Fools’ Gold by
Dolores Hitchens
(Doubleday, 1958) |
Today we’re equally excited to give a sneak preview of our
second audiobook,
Fools’ Gold (1958) by
Dolores Hitchens, another title in the
Women Crime Writers collection. The story of two juvenile delinquents fresh out of lockup and a sheltered young orphan girl who hatch a robbery scheme that goes badly astray,
Fools’ Gold is perhaps best known today as the inspiration for Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 film
Bande À Part (
Band of Outsiders).
A
2011 review by Dan Stumpf on the
MysteryFile blog suggests the novel is ripe for reappraisal: Stumpf calls it “a nasty piece of work. . . . quite well done. [Hitchens] has a good feel for letting the characters shape the plot, and she isn’t bothered by a bit of clutter and untidiness as things play out in a nicely cluttered and untidy finale.”
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Scott Brick recording Fools’ Gold
in Los Angeles, June 2015. |
Longtime audiobook producer
Patti Pirooz, who is also handling The Library of America’s
Horizontal Man audiobook, is shepherding
Fools’ Gold through production in Los Angeles. Behind the microphone is
Scott Brick, a writer, actor, and veteran audiobook narrator with more than 600 titles to his credit, ranging from bestsellers like
Moneyball and
The Bourne Identity to classics like
In Cold Blood and
Light in August.
Publishers Weekly named Brick its
“Narrator of the Year” in 2007, and he has won two
Audies from the Audio Publishers Association and over fifty Earphones Awards from
AudioFile magazine for his work as a reader.
Want to hear a sample of the narrating chops that have made Brick so lauded in his field? Enjoy a brief excerpt of his
Fools’ Gold reading via the audio player embedded below.
Watch
Reader’s Almanac in the coming months for further information about our
Fools’ Gold audiobook and
Women Crime Writers, both of which will be released in September.
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