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  • Oregon

  • By: Don Winslow
  • Narrated by: Ed Harris
  • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (1,671 ratings)

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Oregon

By: Don Winslow
Narrated by: Ed Harris
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Publisher's summary

It was 1970 in a defeated Rhode Island fishing town. Vietnam and Nixon dominated the national news. Both the near and distant future looked bleak.

But they were five inseparable high school friends with something incredible in common: an unwavering resolve to look after each other no matter what hell life threw at them. And they were on a mission.

The plan was simple: Go off the grid before they turned 18 to avoid the draft. They’d sell some grass, stack some cash, then head west and start a commune. What could possibly go wrong?

Oregon is an emotionally charged new Audible Original short thriller from Audie Award-winning and internationally best-selling author Don Winslow. Masterfully performed by four-time Academy Award nominee Ed Harris, it delivers an audio experience that will stay with you long after it’s over. Listen now.

©2023 Don Winslow (P)2024 Audible Originals, LLC.
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About the Creator

Don Winslow is the author of more than 20 acclaimed, award-winning international bestsellers, including The New York Times bestsellers The Force and The Border, the #1 international bestseller The Cartel, The Power of the Dog, Savages, The Winter of Frankie Machine, and the Danny Ryan Trilogy. Savages was made into a feature film by three-time Oscar-winning writer-director Oliver Stone. The Power of the Dog, The Cartel, and The Border sold to FX to air as a major television series, and The Force is soon to be a major motion picture from 20th Century Studios. A former investigator, antiterrorist trainer, and trial consultant, Winslow lives in California and Rhode Island.

About the Performer

Ed Harris has an acclaimed film career spanning five decades. He is a four-time Academy Award nominee and a two-time Golden Globe winner for his brilliant performances in The Hours, The Truman Show, Apollo 13, Game Change (HBO), Empire Falls (HBO) and Pollock—his feature film directing debut.
Harris has a prolific and diverse filmography of leading roles with acclaimed filmmakers, including Alamo Bay (Louis Malle), The Abyss (James Cameron), The Firm (Sydney Pollack), Nixon (Oliver Stone), The Rock (Michael Bay), Absolute Power (Clint Eastwood), A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard), Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho), Mother! (Darren Aronofsky), and three films with veteran filmmaker Agnieszka Holland. Harris was recently seen in the blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick and in Netflix’s The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s award-winning film adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel.
Upcoming, Harris will star alongside Kristen Stewart in the A24 film Love Lies Bleeding, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2024, as well as the comedy drama film My Dead Friend Zoe, which will premiere at SXSW. Ed will star alongside Jessica Lange in MGM’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, a screen adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play. He also recently completed production on the crime thriller feature Riff Raff starring alongside Jennifer Coolidge, Dustin Hoffman, and Pete Davidson.
In addition to directing Pollock, his second film, as director, screenwriter, and actor, was Appaloosa, co-starring Viggo Mortensen.
His television credits include Empire Falls (HBO) and Riders of the Purple Sage (TNT), co-starring and co-produced with his wife, Amy Madigan. Harris also starred as the enigmatic Man in Black’ for four seasons of the critically acclaimed HBO series Westworld, which earned him an Emmy nomination.
Harris’s theater credits include: Ronald Harwood’s Taking Sides, Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love (Obie), and Simpatico (Lucille Lortel Award for Best Actor), George Furth’s Precious Sons (Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination), Prairie Avenue, Scar, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Grapes of Wrath, and Sweet Bird of Youth, Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, and Shepard’s Buried Child, in which Harris and Madigan made their London West End debut and for which he received an Olivier nomination.

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Teens trapped in futility

From the beginning, there is a forecast of futility, but the hopes of escape from the dire circumstances are going to come to nothing. Winslow adroitly encapsulates a mood of the era into the circumstances and actions of a small group of friends and then describes how the friendship and their shared dream is not enough to make it through.

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Coming of age, with a twist!

Decided to give this a listen simply because it was a "quick read". But I was pleasantly surprised that I ended up enjoying it. The Twist at then end was so Unexpected, I sat there with my mouth hanging open for a good 30 seconds!

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Moving and totally believable

This story reminded me of the good old bad old days when I was growing up and met and knew people like the characters in Winslow's skilfully told tale. Highly recommend

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Excellent, beautifully written. Riveting!

Characters were so believable and sympathetic. A look into teenage boys and their friendships, dreams, and flaws. Wished it could have gone on…

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Reality

Winslow is a great story teller. He writes true happenings in the world . Sadness is very seldom is there a happy ending.

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Good!

Good, short, fast paced story. Takes place in the early 70’s with Viet Nam lurking in the background and the beginning of the high school drug scene very much in the foreground. Tightly written with a clear beginning, middle and end. I walked away with spine tingling, and skin in goosebumps.

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