The Dakota Winters
- Author: Tom Barbash
- Narrator: Jim Meskimen
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
- Duration: 8:37:51
Synopsis
By turns hilarious and poignant, The Dakota Winters is a family drama, a compelling social novel, and a tale of a critical moment in the history of New York City in the year leading up to John Lennon’s assassination.
‘Conjures a gritty, populous, affectionate portrait of 1979 New York City’ Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach
It’s the fall of 1979 when 23-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota in New York City. Anton’s father, the famous late-night host Buddy Winter is there to greet him, himself recovering from a breakdown. Before long Anton is swept up in an effort to reignite Buddy’s stalled career, a mission that takes him from the gritty streets of New York, to the slopes of the Lake Placid Olympics, to the Hollywood Hills, to the blue waters of the Bermuda Triangle, and brings him into close quarters with the likes of Johnny Carson, Ted and Joan Kennedy, and a seagoing John Lennon.
But the more Anton finds himself enmeshed in his father’s professional and spiritual reinvention, the more he questions his own path, and fissures in the Winter family begin to threaten their close bond.
‘Deft, funny, touching, and sharply observed, a marvel of tone, and a skillful evocation of a dark passage in the history of New York City, when all the fearful ironies of the world we live in now first came stalking into view’ Michael Chabon, author of Moonglow
‘This is a crazily charming novel … I wanted to begin a new life in these pages, with these characters. I wanted to trade worlds with them. This is a wise and seductive story that feels truer than true, as only the very finest fiction does’ Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air
‘A thought-provoking time capsule… if you were a fan of TV’s Mad Men, you might very well love this novel as much as I did’ Wally Lamb, author of She’s Come Undone
Chapters
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chapter 01
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chapter 02
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chapter 03
Duration: 04min -
chapter 04
Duration: 21min -
chapter 05
Duration: 09min -
chapter 06
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chapter 07
Duration: 23min -
chapter 08
Duration: 09min -
chapter 09
Duration: 09min -
chapter 10
Duration: 24min -
chapter 11
Duration: 22min -
chapter 12
Duration: 14min -
chapter 13
Duration: 15min -
chapter 14
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chapter 15
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chapter 16
Duration: 13min -
chapter 17
Duration: 08min -
chapter 18
Duration: 12min -
chapter 19
Duration: 14min -
chapter 20
Duration: 11min