Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview

£0.00 for first 30 days

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Dark Dude

By: Oscar Hijuelos
Narrated by: Armando Durán
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

From the Pulitzer Prize winner Oscar Hijuelos comes a novel about identity, circumstance, and a way in which we all struggle to accept our true selves. In gritty, clear prose, Dark Dude captures New York City in the 1960s - violent, decaying, slouching away from the American dream - and brings to life a character who has no choice but to head out west in search of something better. But, when Rico and his ex-druggie friend arrive in Wisconsin, they discover that picket-fenced apple-pie people can be just as violent and judgmental as the neighbors they left behind. No longer an outsider by appearances, Rico is forced to swallow an uncomfortable truth: he is still an outsider.
©2008 Oscar Hijuelos (P)2008 Blackstone Audio
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

We Live in Water cover art
USA Noir cover art
Halfway cover art
Deadline cover art
The Ranger cover art
Armadillos cover art
Bluebottle cover art
Girl Unbroken cover art
Occupational Hazards: The Blue-Collar Omnibus cover art
The Last Detail cover art
Atlanta Burns cover art
Where the Hurt Is cover art
Closing Time cover art
The Last Call cover art
The Memory of Running cover art
Noir cover art

Critic reviews

"Dark Dude is our strategic guide to the universe." (Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club)
"Pure Hijuelos: Cuban-American, musical and very, very funny." ( Publishers Weekly)
"A lively insightful read." (Esmeralda Santiago, author of When I Was a Puerto Rican)

What listeners say about Dark Dude

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.