Download The Hurley Maker's Son AudioBook Free

Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook model of The Hurley Maker's Boy by Patrick Deeley, read by Gerry O'Brien. Patrick Deeley's train trip home to rural East Galway in autumn 1978 was a pilgrimage of grief: his giant of a father had been felled, the hurley-making workshop silenced. Out of this point in time, Patrick unfolds his youth as some evocative occasions, from the elaborate workings of the timber workshop run by his father to the poor taking apart of an old tractor and the physical burial of the steam engine; from his mother's dependable work on an old Performer sewing machine to his father's vertiginous quickstep on the roof of their house. There are various wonderful explanations of the natural world and wonderful cameos of personas and happenings from a not-so-long-ago country youth. In a style similar to John McGahern's Memoir, Deeley's wonderfully paced prose captures the rhythms, challenges and rough ends of the rural life that had been dying even while he grew. That is an enchanting, wonderfully written bank account of family, love, loss, and the unstoppable march of energy.

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