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Read by: Ron McLarty
Running Time: 8 hrs 15 mins
Released: June 2011
Media: mp3, Unabridged Audio Book
ISBN: 9781609413002
Baldacci began writing stories as a child, when his mother gave him a notebook in which to record them. He wrote for more than two decades, penning short stories and later screenplays without much success.
While practicing law, he turned to novel writing, taking three years to write Absolute Power. Published in 1996, it was an international best seller. To date, Baldacci has published 40 best-selling novels for adults as well as seven novels for younger readers.
Baldacci and his wife, Michelle, are the co-founders of the Wish You Well Foundation, which works to combat illiteracy in the United States. Baldacci became involved with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society after his sister, author Sharon Baldacci, was diagnosed with MS.
Baldacci's first novel, Absolute Power, tells the story of a fictional American president and his Secret Service agents who are willing to commit murder in order to cover up the accidental death of a woman with whom the President was having an affair. It was adapted as a film, Absolute Power (1997), starring Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman.
Baldacci wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of his novel Wish You Well; the movie was shot on location in southwest Virginia with Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn, Josh Lucas, and Mackenzie Foy in the lead roles.
Baldacci was a consulting producer on King & Maxwell, a TNT television series based on his characters Sean King and Michelle Maxwell. Jon Tenney and Rebecca Romijn starred.
The Christmas Train, Baldacci's eighth novel, was adapted in 2017 by Hallmark Channel as a Hallmark Hall of Fame feature presentation. The TV movie starred Dermot Mulroney, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Danny Glover and Joan Cusack and was directed by Ron Oliver.
Baldacci's novels have been published in over 45 languages and in more than 80 countries, with over 130 million worldwide sales as of 2018.
Synopsis
From #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci comes a moving family drama about learning to love again after heartbreak and loss - ONE SUMMER
It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family.
With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children.
Then, unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are separated from each other and sent to live with family members around the country.
Just when all seems lost, Jack begins to recover in a miraculous turn of events.
He rises from what should have been his deathbed, determined to bring his fractured family back together.
Struggling to rebuild their lives after Lizzie's death, he reunites everyone at Lizzie's childhood home on the oceanfront in South Carolina.
And there, over one unforgettable summer, Jack will begin to learn to love again, and he and his children will learn how to become a family once more.
Reviews
“If you know David Baldacci only as a thriller writer, you need to read more of David Baldacci. In One Summer, he writes as beautifully and insightfully about the pathways of the human heart as he does about the corridors of power. The twists and turns in this hughly emotional and unforgettable novel come from the resilience of one father’s spirit and the revelation of the love that binds a family.” - Lisa Scottoline, New York Times bestselling author
“One Summer is a beautifully written story about family, redemption, and hope. Baldacci demonstrates why, regardless of genre, he’s one of the world’s foremost storytellers.” - Richard Paul Evans, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Walk and The Christmas Box
“One Summer has it all—humor, grace, and redemption, delivered with humanity and wisdom in the capable and sure hands of America’s great storyteller.” - Adriana Trigiani, author of Very Valentine and Lucia, Lucia
“Thriller novelist David Baldacci shifts gears smoothly in this warm family drama…A soul-lifting change-of-pace novel that works.” - Barnes & Noble, editorial review
“Well performed by Ron McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy, Baldacci’s latest is…engaging.” - Library Journal
"A totally different style for Baldacci...a man who is dying of terminal illness becomes miraculously well while in hospice after losing his wife to a car accident on December 24 and his children to relatives. Fighting back against the odds, he takes his children to his wife's childhood home on the Carolina coast to become a family again. His struggles, while also dealing with the loss of the wife who was supposed to outlive him, to become a real father to his three children is at the heart of this novel." - Daily TelegraphOn Media
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