The Ballad of Perilous Graves, Alex Jennings
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The Ballad of Perilous Graves

Author: Alex Jennings

Narrator: Gralen Bryant Banks

Unabridged: 17 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Redhook

Published: 06/21/2022


Synopsis

"Funny, wild, witty, and profound.”―Victor LaValle

"A wild and wonderful debut, teeming with music, family and art."—New York Times

"Magical, lyrical, gritty, otherworldly…hype like Bayou Classic in the 90s."—P. Djèlí Clark New York Times Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2022! Oprah Daily Top 25 Fantasy Book of 2022! Apple Best Audiobook of 2022!

A fun and fantastical love letter to New Orleans unfolds when a battle for the city's soul brews between two young mages, a vengeful wraith, and one powerful song in this wildly imaginative debut.  Nola is a city full of wonders. A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night away and Wise Women help keep the order. To those from Away, Nola might seem strange. To Perilous Graves, it’s simply home.

Perry knows Nola’s rhythm as intimately as his own heartbeat. So when the city’s Great Magician starts appearing in odd places and essential songs are forgotten, Perry knows trouble is afoot.

Nine songs of power have escaped from the piano that maintains the city’s beat, and without them, Nola will fail. Unwilling to watch his home be destroyed, Perry will sacrifice everything to save it. But a storm is brewing, and the Haint of All Haints is awake. Nola’s time might be coming to an end.

Audiobook features an Original score written and performed by Andrew McGowan

Author Bio

Alex Jennings is an associate actor with the RSC and has also worked with the Royal National Theatre. He has won two Olivier Awards for Best Actor in a Musical, and his TV appearances include The State Within and Inspector Morse. An AudioFile Earphones Award winner, he is a prolific reader of audiobooks, the most notable of which are The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis and Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist.

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