Snow Angels

“O’Nan is a skilled writer who views the lives of his working-class characters with unsentimental compassion…The novel’s elegiac tone is perfectly controlled, and angst and the lingo of male adolescence are rendered with wry fidelity.” —Publishers Weekly

“O'Nan weaves together…seemingly disparate small-town tragedies…with consummate skill, seamlessly shifting the focus among characters…This winner of the 1993 Pirates Alley William Faulkner Prize for the Novel is recommended for fiction collections.” —Library Journal

“Beautiful and harrowing...An exquisite double helix, each of its two strands the tale of an unraveling family, curving in tenuous but essential relation to the other.” —Elle

“Hillgartner does a fine reading of this emotionally charged tale…his interpretation of the tension within the various relationships is well expressed.” —Kliatt

“Stewart O'Nan’s heartbreaking and poetic story…is beautifully read by narrator Malcolm Hillgartner in a rich performance that resonates with melancholy and loss. Hillgartner’s deep tone is so engaging and earnest it makes the story leap to life inside the listeners’ collective imaginations.” —AudioFile

“Stewart O'Nan’s heartbreaking and poetic story…is beautifully read by narrator Malcom Hillgartner in a rich performance that resonates with melancholy and loss. Hillgartner’s deep tone is so engaging and earnest it makes the story leap to life inside the listeners’ collective imaginations. As Arthur Parkinson, he is thorough and complete in his reading, realistically assuming the identity of a middle-aged man searching for answers from his dreary past. There is little in the way of performance here, not in any obvious sense, but what Hillgartner lacks in variety and theatrics he more than provides in believability and emotion.” —AudioFile