Bar Maid
Written by Daniel Roberts
Narrated by Adam Verner
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
It’s September 1987. Charlie Green is an eighteen-year-old romantic and aspiring alcoholic, whose great wish is to fall in love with a light-eyed girl on his first day of college and never look back. Charlie believes in the magic of bars and girls. He believes he can use these talismans to finally feel at home, an assurance his dim and privileged childhood did not provide. At the Sansom Street Oyster House, he meets Paula Henderson, a beautiful and deceptively soulful waitress who is the most overqualified bar maid in all the city—and perhaps the most alluring.
But there are obstacles in the Philly night between Charlie and his full heart. Drunks, louts, boyfriends—heroes too. And in Paula’s eyes, Charlie becomes one. When she takes him home to New Hope, PA, to meet her very Catholic mother, the young couple must contend with the consequences of their pure love.
In this darkly comedic coming-of-age novel, Charlie Green needs to grow up fast. At stake is his soul.
Editor's Note
Whirlwind romance…
Roberts’ debut novel is a coming-of-age story set in the late ’80s that follows Charlie Green as he heads off to his first year of college, bringing along naïve ideas about true love. The book details his chance meeting with barmaid Paula and their resulting relationship, complete with the highs and lows of whirlwind romance.
Daniel Roberts
Daniel Roberts is a native New Yorker who attended the University of Pennsylvania, where the seeds were planted for his debut novel, Bar Maid. Roberts is the author of the plays Haunted House, which the New York Times called “Sparklingly original with characters that stick,” and Brando, of which Time Out New York wrote: “An impressive piece of writing, recalling Edward Albee or John Guare.” He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
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Readers find this title to be an interesting coming of age storyline with a great voice and terrific storytelling. The plot revolves around love and the origin story of a young couple in NYC and Bucks County. The narrator's performance is top-notch, keeping the reader engaged. Overall, readers loved this book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is an interesting coming of age storyline where Charlie depends too much on his long-distance brother and finding his first love.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Interesting plot: love, an origin story of a young couple in NYC and my beloved Bucks County Pa. The narrator is top notch, moderate not too slow or too fast, like he’s telling a story, the way a reader should be. I loved this book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Terrific storytelling and a great voice too. i could drive all night.