Description: Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost whose population is shrinking every day. Clive McCahon returns to his tiny hometown after a seven-year jail stint for dealing coke with a lot to make up to his younger brother, who has been taking care of their sick mother. But Clive doesn't realize the trouble he's bringing home. Though he's now reformed and eager to open a bar, his vengeful old business partner is hot on his heels, a stuffed-shirt State Trooper is dying to bust him for narcotics, and it's possible Clive is going insanehe's been hearing animals talk to him. Will his arrival in Cold Storage be a breath of fresh air, or will it turn the place upside-down?
Brief description:
Stephen R. Thorne, winner of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards for narration, is a professional actor and member of the resident acting company at Providence's esteemed Trinity Repertory Company, where he has played Hamlet, Henry V, and Tom Joad.
Review Quotes:
"Straley, author of The Big Both Ways, has created a wonderfully evocative place in Cold Storage. His evocation of nature and human nature approaches the lyrical, and he seems guided by Faulkner's dictum that the only thing truly worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself."
-- "Booklist (starred review)"