The Fourth of July, a hilarious novella written by Kevin Dowd and published in paperback by Roundabout Press, is now available as an audio book -- just in time for the long holiday weekend. Multiple formats can be downloaded from the author's website, kevindowd.com, at no cost. A Kindle version is also available.
Read by an ensemble cast, The Fourth of July is the laugh-out-loud story of a summer vacation gone very wrong. It's the perfect "beach read" for anyone planning a vacation this summer or just dreaming of one.
It's summer 1974 on an island off the coast of Connecticut, and all Jack Smith wants is a vacation like he enjoyed in his youth: swimming, sailing and sunshine. But Jack finds his summer plans quickly spiraling out of control. His estranged wife follows him to the island looking for money. The priest and constable are conspiring his ruin. And the local Lolita is intent upon seducing him. Jack suddenly has more problems than he can handle, and he deals with them the only way he knows how: with rum and romance, all leading to a calamitous Fourth of July in Kevin Dowd's hilarious first novel.Were this a film, the parts would be played by Chevy Chase and Catherine O'Hara. Jack returns to the island for the holiday weekend in 1974 (think Mungo Jerry, no cell phones, no texting, no Internet) to nurse the psychic wounds of middle age, little suspecting that all hell would soon break loose.-- Alan Bisbort, The Advocate
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