It’s Thursday and that means it’s Thursty Ears Thursday. Here’s a FREE Audible file that you can download and enjoy. This time, it’s a The Smiths’ Meat Is Murder (33 1/3 Series) by John Pernice and narrated by Neal Huff. In order to download these files, you’ll need to be an Audible.com member. It’s free to open an account and you can also get a free audiobook of your choice!

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The Smiths’ Meat Is Murder (33 1/3 Series)
Unabridged
By: John Pernice
Narrated by: Neal Huff

Program Type: Speech
Publisher: Audible Inc.
Length: 2 hrs 36 mins

Audible.co.uk: The Smiths’ Meat is Murder (33 1/3 Series). £5.29

Audible.de: The Smiths’ Meat is Murder (33 1/3 Series) - HÖRBUCH 6,95 €

Publisher’s Summary

“One morning as I was jogging my way past the bronze plaque commemorating the deaths of one student and one motorcyclist, Ray floored the brake pedal of his Dodge as he closed in on me. Fifty-mile-an-hour traffic came to a screeching, nearly murderous halt behind him. He leaned over and rolled down the passenger side window in one fluid motion. He dispensed with formalities while I marveled at the audacity of his driving and, tossing something at me, winked and said, ‘Here. I’m going to kill myself.’ He pegged the gas, leaving a surprisingly good patch of rubber for such a shitty car. In the gutter, sugared with sand put down during the winter’s last snow, I saw written in red felt ink on masking tape stuck to a smoky-clear cassette: ‘Smiths: Meat’.”

A Catholic high school near Boston in 1985. A time of suicides, gymnasium humiliations, smoking for beginners, asthma attacks, and incendiary teenage infatuations. Infatuations with a girl (Allison), with a band (The Smiths) and with an album, Meat Is Murder, that was so raw, so vivid and so melodic that you could cling to it life a lifeboat in a storm.

Joe Pernice is the singer and songwriter for The Pernice Brothers. Their most recent album is called Yours, Mine and Ours. He has published a book of poetry. This is his first work of fiction.

33 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist’s entire output, the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already, and cut to the heart of the music on each album. The authors provide fresh, original perspectives - often through their access to and relationships with the key figures involved in the recording of these albums. By turns obsessive, passionate, creative, and informed, the books in this series demonstrate many different ways of writing about music.

©2003 Joe Pernice; (P)2008 Audible, Inc.

What the Critics Say

“Full of mordant wit and real heartache. A dead-on depiction of what it feels like when pop music articulates your pain with an elegance you could never hope to muster. “Meat Is Murder” does a brilliant job of capturing how, in a world that doesn’t care, listening to your favorite album can save your life.” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

“Pernice hits his mark. The well-developed sense of character, plot and pacing shows that he has serious promise as a novelist. His emotionally precise imagery can be bluntly, chillingly personal.” (The Boston Weekly Dig)

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