Cold Storage, Alaska Lib/E (Audiobook)

from bowedbookshelf

Winter sets in long, cold, and lonely in Cold Storage, Alaska, but Straley sets us up with a comic narrative that takes most of the vinegar out of the population of "drunks and depressives" and sweetens it with romance. He introduces us to a fiercely independent and strangely cohesive group of fo...

from cathyskye

Told in a spare poetic style that takes command of your imagination, Cold Storage, Alaska is by turns funny, serious, frightening, philosophical, exaggerated... and intimate. It is filled with odd situations and the kind of offbeat characters that keep your attention glued to the page. As you rea...

from brangwinn

What Carl Hiaasen does for Florida, John Straley does for Alaska. His quirky, loveable characters are what make this story about a down and old southern coastal village in Alaska. It is not necessary to read the first book Straley wrote about Cold Storage, but if you read this one, you'll want to...

from kerns222

Straley loves Alaska's waters, mountains, birds, bears, and trees and writes as though he in worship of them. His people are not as perfect as his eagles, especially in the way-outback, fly-in villages, so the characters are all on the edge of humanity, fighting capital-"P" Progress by drinking, ...