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A fresh take on Twain's San Francisco circle. -- Kansas City Star Few audiobooks offer a better window on the evolution of a unique American literature than this fine portrayal...Narrator Jim Frangione['s] excellent performance is a listening--and learning--experience of the highest order...Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award. -- AudioFile Tarnoff energetically portrays this irresistible quartet within a vital historical setting. -- Booklist Tarnoff powerfully evokes the western landscapes, local cultures, and youthful friendships that helped shape Twain. -- Chicago Tribune Tarnoff's book sings with the humor and expansiveness...capturing the intoxicating atmosphere of possibility that defined, for a time, America's frontier. -- New Yorker Tarnoff's glimmering prose lends grandeur to this account...a highly readable story. -- Publishers Weekly Tarnoff's ultimate thesis...[is] that together these writers 'helped pry American literature away from its provincial origins in New England and push it into a broader current.' -- Wall Street Journal Twain may be the main draw...but Tarnoff's writing about a few of Twain's contemporaries--Bret Harte, Charles Warren Stoddard, Ina Coolbrith--is just as engaging. -- Minneapolis Star Tribune

"""A fresh take on Twain's San Francisco circle."" -- ""Kansas City Star"" ""Few audiobooks offer a better window on the evolution of a unique American literature than this fine portrayal...Narrator Jim Frangione['s] excellent performance is a listening--and learning--experience of the highest order...Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award."" -- ""AudioFile"" ""Tarnoff energetically portrays this irresistible quartet within a vital historical setting."" -- ""Booklist"" ""Tarnoff powerfully evokes the western landscapes, local cultures, and youthful friendships that helped shape Twain."" -- ""Chicago Tribune"" ""Tarnoff's book sings with the humor and expansiveness...capturing the intoxicating atmosphere of possibility that defined, for a time, America's frontier."" -- "" New Yorker"" ""Tarnoff's glimmering prose lends grandeur to this account...a highly readable story."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Tarnoff's ultimate thesis...[is] that together these writers 'helped pry American literature away from its provincial origins in New England and push it into a broader current.'"" -- ""Wall Street Journal"" ""Twain may be the main draw...but Tarnoff's writing about a few of Twain's contemporaries--Bret Harte, Charles Warren Stoddard, Ina Coolbrith--is just as engaging."" -- ""Minneapolis Star Tribune"""

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Ben Tarnoff has written for the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Lapham's Quarterly, and is the author of A Counterfeiter's Paradise. He was born in San Francisco. Jim Frangione is an actor and audiobook narrator who won AudioFile magazine's 2011 Best Voice in Mystery and Suspense for his reading of Philip Carter's The Altar of Bones and Spencer Quinn's To Fetch a Thief. He has won numerous Earphones Awards and has been was a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award. His theater credits include the off-Broadway production of Scrambled Eggs and the New York premiere of David Mamet's plays The Old Neighborhood, Romance, and Oleanna, in which he also performed with the national tour. His film and television appearances include Joy, Transamerica, Spartan, Heist, Brotherhood, The Unit, and Law & Order.

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