Huge: A Novel
About this audiobook
For precocious twelve-year-old Eugene Smalls, growing up isn’t easy. His bad reputation precedes him, public school considers him a lost cause, and his own family seems out to get him. He’s got a temper, so don’t dare call him “Genie!” He insists on being called “Huge,” and though small, he’s tough and hard-boiled, just like his heroes, pulp detectives Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade, who taught him everything he knows about crime solving. When the nursing home where his grandmother stays is vandalized, she hires him to solve the case. But he misreads clues, misinterprets motives, and mistakes mundane incidents for diabolical schemes as only an inexperienced adolescent with a restless imagination can. His search for “whodunit” turns into a search for self in this coming-of-age story set in 1980s suburban New Jersey.
About the author
James W. Fuerst spent his teenage years in New Jersey and now lives in Brooklyn. He earned his MA and PhD from Harvard University and holds an MFA from the New School. Huge is his first novel.
Jeff Woodman is the winner of multiple Earphones Awards, and he was named the 2008 Best Voice in Fiction & Classics as well as one of the “Fifty Greatest Voices of the Century” by AudioFile magazine. His credits include Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Life of Pi, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Some of his non-fiction works include Dr. Perricone's 7 Secrets to Beauty, Health and Longevity and The Intellectual Devotional: American History. On stage, Woodman starred in the title role in Tennessee William's The Notebook of Trigorin, and he received the S.F. Bay Area Critic's Circle Award for his performance in An Ideal Husband. Woodman has also participated in numerous ESL programs and cartoon voices for Japanese animation.
