A 'Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories'

Version: Unabridged
Author: Richard Peck
Narrator: Ron McLarty
Genres: Juvenile Fiction
Publisher: Listening Library
Date: May 2005
Length: 4 hours, 17 minutes
Ratings:
Formats :
  • CD
Tell Your Friends:

Overview

What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice -- two city slickers from Chicago -- make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town? August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn't resting easy.

August 1930: The Cowgill boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back. August 1931: Joey and Mary Alice help Grandma trespass, poach, catch the sheriff in his underwear, and feed the hungry -- all in one day. And there's more, as Joey and Mary Alice make seven summer trips to Grandma's -- each one funnier than the year before -- in self-contained chapters that readers can enjoy as short stories or take together for a rollicking good novel. In the tradition of American humorists from Mark Twain to Flannery O'Connor, popular author Richard Peck has created a memorable world filled with characters who, like Grandma herself, are larger than life and twice as entertaining.

Reviews (1)

a long way from chicago

Written by Joan Lindley on November 9th, 2007

  • Book Rating: 4/5

this is a delightful story that I recommend to anyone who wants to enjoy a heartwarming story. Grandma is quite a character

Author Details

Author Details

Peck, Richard

RICHARD PECK is Professor of International Affairs at Lewis and Clark College.