The Turnaround, George Pelecanos
The Turnaround, George Pelecanos
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The Turnaround

Author: George Pelecanos

Narrator: Dion Graham

Abridged: 5 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2008


Synopsis

On a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever. Thirty-five years later, one survivor of that day reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to salvation. But another survivor is now out of prison, looking for reparation in any form he can find it.

The Turnaround takes us on a journey from the rock-and-soul streets of the '70s to the changing neighborhoods of D.C. today, from the diners and auto garages of the city to the inside of Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital, where wounded men and women have returned to the world in a time of war. A novel of fathers and sons, wives and husbands, loss, victory and violent redemption, The Turnaround is another compelling, highly charged novel from George Pelecanos, "the best crime novelist in America." -Oregonian

Reviews

Goodreads review by Richard

Filled with themes of forgiveness, responsibility, and redemption, while still being just a simple, handsomely-told story about everyday working men, this book is pure Pelecanos. All the elements of his work are here, from the spare writing, to the constant theme of what it means and what it takes t......more

Goodreads review by Paul

I recently read "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton, and that had "cultural cringe" stamped all the way through it like a seaside resort's name in a stick of rock (no, not crack cocaine, a kind of candy). Upper class Americans in the late 19th century were completely in awe of Europe - its arist......more

Goodreads review by Aditya

The title The Turnaround surely does not refer to Pelecanos' fortunes. He has tried to write a literary novel and exposed his limited skill set. As the plot hardly moves, his prose comes under greater scrutiny and does not hold up. It is too dry to evoke feelings, it is bare bones and journalistic.......more