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Tough Island

True Stories from Matinicus, Maine

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Tough Island

By: Crash Barry
Narrated by: Crash Barry
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Tough Island is a movie for your ears. Author Crash Barry’s evocative, gritty, and funny storytelling, authentic sound effects, and vocal dramatics create a soundscape that transports you to Maine’s most remote inhabited island. Crash narrates and voices the entire cast of memorable characters, including the salty Captain Donald and his insufferable wife, brawny fishermen, and other eccentric islanders.

Tough Island simultaneously chronicles the coming-of-age story of Crash, a 23 year-old wannabe poet living in a rustic fish shack, working as a sternman on a lobster boat. On Tough Island, he deals with love and loss, and is participant and witness to the debauchery and violence of youth. On Matinicus, 20 miles out to sea, population of 50, the ferry visited nine times a year, and airplanes only landed when there was no fog, rain, snow, sleet, or darkness.

Tough Island is a gritty guided tour of a unique society inhabited by resourceful individuals and scoundrels filled with stories of danger and drugs, sex and sorrow and death, all unfolding in a landscape of breathtaking beauty.

©2011, 2013 Crash Barry (P)2021 Crash Barry Cultural & Regional Funny
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Two years of life, and sometimes death, working the coastal waters decades ago. Surprising characters voiced by the author, some endearing and some maddening. I’ve never listened to an audiobook where the author takes you along for so much of the ride, from life-changing events, to partying with friends after a hard day of work, to a good nap. About to restart and listen again.

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