Hawkes Harbor (Brilliance Audio on Compact Disc)

Dr. Phillip McDevitt, director of Terrace View Asylum, is intrigued by his newest patient, a troubled young man recently transferred from the state hospital for the criminally insane. Jamie Sommers suffers from depression, partial amnesia, and an unaccountable fear of the dark. Dr. McDevitt is determined to help Jamie conquer his demons, but the more he probes the young man’s fractured memories, the stranger his case becomes.…An orphan and a bastard, Jamie grew up tough enough to handle almost anything. Taking to the sea, he found danger and adventure in exotic ports all over the world. He’s survived foreign prisons, smugglers, pirates, gunrunners, and even a shark attack. But what he discovered in the quiet seaside town of Hawkes Harbor, Delaware, was enough to drive him almost insane—and change his life forever.Hawkes Harbor is a compelling and unpredictable new novel by one of America’s most honored storytellers.

From AudioFile

YA novelist S.E. Hinton's (THE OUTSIDERS) first adult novel brings with it sex, swearing, and pop philosophy. Jamie Summers, illegitimate, orphaned, brought up by cruel nuns, leaves the orphanage and goes to sea. Later, in a mental hospital where he is being treated for amnesia and depression, Jamie pieces together the events that led him there. Hinton's opening scenes show her remarkable insights into adolescent behavior, but the story soon deteriorates into an ordinary, sometimes silly, vampire tale. Narrator Dick Hill brings the sound of a tinny small-time crook to Jamie, and his pal Kell sounds as rough as sandpaper. Avoiding stereotypes, Hill gives an original voice to the bloodsucker, his dark, somber tones almost eliminating images of Bela Lugosi. Despite pirates, sharks, gunrunning, and buried treasure, this book doesn't float without Dick Hill's lively performance. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About the Author

S. E. Hinton was the first author to receive the Young Adult Services Division/School Library Journal Award for Life Achievement, and has received numerous other awards and honors. Her gritty and powerful novels have also inspired four major motion pictures. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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