Better Part of the Road

by Tom Bodett

The author of The End of the Road and Small Comforts returns to his fictional Alaska town, The End of the Road, to present more unforgettable stories about its colorful inhabitants and their doings. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Audio Cassette
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553470191
• ISBN13: 9780553470192
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Random House Audio Publishing Group
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.4" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Amusing tales of Alaska read by the Author

Once more America's most distinctive humorist and storyteller invites us to spend a thoroughly entertaining visit with our friends at the End of the Road. The townspeople at the End of the Road survived the Alaska oil spill, but life has a few more upheavals in store. Old Angus Winslow's begun to worry about the memory lapses he's been having since he banged his head. But that hasn't stopped him from declaring his interest, after 25 years in Ruby McClay. Ed Flannigan has a fateful encounter with a pipe wrench, and a stuck dump truck that will put him in an Anchorage hospital, and change his life. And Emmitt Frank, who came to Alaska looking for nature and himself, gets booted out of his town apartment and lands in a backwoods cabin to find both - for better or for worse. From babysitting disasters, to the strangest set of wedding bells Alaska has ever seen, life takes some strange turns, and then again goes on pretty much as usual. 2 cassettes. Approximate running time is 2 hours, 10 minutes. If you like Tom Bodett's stories and voice, this is very enjoyable.