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Thomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable house, happy enough daughter, and an eerie sense that life might be happening elsewhere. Then Tonie accepts a big promotion at work and Thomas agrees to become a stay-at-home dad. While Thomas is suddenly faced with the daily silence of an empty house, Tonie finds herself alive to previously unimagined possibilities. And at the head of the family, the aging Bradshaw parents continue their marital dynamic of bickering and petty undermining.
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Brilliant but tedious
- De Fred Ovrom en 12-14-21
De: Rachel Cusk
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Parade
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Genevieve Gaunt
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
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Midway through his life, the artist G begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings are a great success. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. Her attacker flees, but not before turning around to contemplate her victim, like an artist stepping back from a canvas. At the age of twenty-two, the painter G leaves home for a new life in another country, far from the disapproval of her parents. Her paintings attract the disapproval of the man she later marries.
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Hot Milk
- De: Deborah Levy
- Narrado por: Romola Garai
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother's unexplainable illness. She is frustrated with Rose and her constant complaints, but utterly relieved to be called to abandon her own disappointing fledgling adult life. She and her mother travel to the searing, arid coast of southern Spain to see a famous consultant - their very last chance - in the hope that he might cure her unpredictable limb paralysis. But Dr. Gomez has strange methods that seem to have little to do with physical medicine.
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Protagonist's journey of self
- De Saleh en 02-11-17
De: Deborah Levy
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Leaving the Atocha Station
- De: Ben Lerner
- Narrado por: Ben Lerner
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's 'research' becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections?
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Insightful, beautiful
- De Rochelle en 12-09-14
De: Ben Lerner
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Bellies
- A Novel
- De: Nicola Dinan
- Narrado por: Nathaniel Curtis, Octavia Nyombi
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom’s awkward energy, and their connection is instant. Tom finds himself deeply and desperately drawn into Ming’s orbit, and on the cusp of graduation, he’s already mapped out their future together. But shortly after they move to London to start their next chapter, Ming announces her intention to transition.
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Surprisingly Sexiest
- De Deborah Moser-Donlen en 03-12-24
De: Nicola Dinan
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Coventry
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her life's work. Encompassing memoir and cultural and literary criticism, with pieces on gender, politics and writers such as D. H. Lawrence, Olivia Manning and Natalia Ginzburg, this collection is essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, both startling and rewarding to behold.
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A Manual for Cleaning Women
- Selected Stories
- De: Lucia Berlin
- Narrado por: Thom Rivera, Dawn Harvey, Carol Monda, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
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A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers, and bad Christians.
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Exquisite writing, lopsided performances
- De Sazafrass en 03-02-16
De: Lucia Berlin
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Dept. of Speculation
- De: Jenny Offill
- Narrado por: Jenny Offill
- Duración: 3 h y 9 m
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Jenny Offill’s heroine, referred to in these pages as simply “the wife”, once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes - a colicky baby, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions - the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts.
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Sparse looping beautiful
- De diane berry en 05-01-24
De: Jenny Offill
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Saving Agnes
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Alexandra Fuller
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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The story of a young British woman's first affair and entry into adulthood.
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most boring book I've ever read.
- De Lee C. Bendig en 05-28-15
De: Rachel Cusk
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Why Does the World Exist?
- An Existential Detective Story
- De: Jim Holt
- Narrado por: Steven Menasche
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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Author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This runaway best seller, which has captured the imagination of critics and the public alike, traces our latest efforts to grasp the origins of the universe. Holt adopts the role of cosmological detective, traveling the globe to interview a host of celebrated scientists, philosophers, and writers.
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Fatal Reader Flaw
- De Let's Be Reasonable en 05-09-14
De: Jim Holt
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Assembly
- De: Natasha Brown
- Narrado por: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Duración: 1 h y 59 m
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The narrator of Assembly is a Black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend’s family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can’t escape the question: Is it time to take it all apart?
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HATED IT
- De valerie en 09-24-21
De: Natasha Brown
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The Topeka School
- A Novel
- De: Ben Lerner
- Narrado por: Nancy Linari, Peter Berkrot, Tristan Wright
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of ’97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting "lost boys" to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. He is one of the cool kids, ready to fight or, better, freestyle about fighting if it keeps his peers from thinking of him as weak.
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Strong novel about 1990s
- De citizen, jazzmania en 01-11-20
De: Ben Lerner
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The Flamethrowers
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Kushner
- Narrado por: Rachel Kushner
- Duración: 15 h y 27 m
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Reno, so-called because of the place of her birth, comes to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity—artists colonize a deserted and industrial SoHo, stage actions in the East Village, blur the line between life and art. Reno is submitted to a sentimental education of sorts—by dreamers, poseurs, and raconteurs in New York and by radicals in Italy, where she goes with her lover to meet his estranged and formidable family.
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- De smith en 03-30-23
De: Rachel Kushner
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- Nick O.
- 07-18-23
Difficult and Better in Print
This is a tricky little novel. The narrator is extremely passive -- "I had come to believe more and more in the virtues of passivity, and of living a life as unmarked by self-will as possible" -- listening while others relate their stories and observations, and so there's a languid, discursive quality to the book. I found my mind wandering while I listened, as you might when sitting on a ferry, overhearing other passengers, tuning in and out of conversations. Sometimes a beautiful phrase or fascinating insight would catch my attention, and I'd find myself turning back to the text so I could reflect on the passage: "It was impossible, I said in response to his question, to give the reasons why the marriage had ended: among other things a marriage is a system of belief, a story, and though it manifests in things that are real enough, the impulse that drives it is ultimately mysterious." That kind of language is harder to catch on audio, and so I'd stop for a while and pick it back up when I had time to devote great attention, and even then I rarely felt motivated to dive back in. I also didn't care much for the reader, Kate Lock, who tries too hard with Greek accents, or overdramatizes a woman talking while she eats honey from a jar: Lock makes a constant smacking sound with her lips, sounding like Winnie the Pooh.
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- Thomas
- 04-06-24
The tone of the narrator is perfect
This book is a beautifully constructed set of dialogues (really monologues) delving into questions of identity and consciousness as exhibited in male and female relationships. I thought the narrator did an excellent job of capturing the nuances of each character’s conversations.
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- Devoted Online Shopper
- 03-15-23
Excruciating
This was a great disappointment. The writing is skilled. The narration is irritating and borderline intolerable. The characters are narcissistic selfish petty whiners whom I hoped would all meet a tragic end, hoisted on their own miserable complaints a la O Henry. But no, they just kept whining away. If it weren’t for my commitment to my book group to read the book I would have put it down well before halfway.
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- JR from Dallas
- 08-04-22
Not even an editor could help this one . . .
There were 2-3 small snippets that were interesting. Characters were boring, unlikeable or indistinguishable. Greece as the setting took no real part in the book. It was like an uninteresting acquaintance droning on and on.
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- Zeno
- 11-17-22
Barely an outline
I read a piece by a huge fan of Rachel Cusk - had never heard of her so I wanted to give it a go. It didn't even leave me wondering. According to the Amazon snippet this novel was a finalist for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. It was, apparently, one of The New York Times' Top Ten Books of the Year. Named a A New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Vogue, NPR, The Guardian, The Independent, Glamour, and The Globe and Mail ... the list goes on. Really?
This feels like a writing exercise the writer in the story gives her students. Yes, it is well written - but what's the point other than any number of disconnected and barely interesting musings about the lives and experiences and idiosyncrasies of people you will even remotely begin to care about? According to one snippet, the "novel about writing and talking, about self-effacement and self-expression, about the desire to create and the human art of self-portraiture in which that desire finds its universal form." Oh, please, that sounds as pretentious as the novel was flat.
Maybe I'm just not seeing it - someone help me, please - enlighten me. It's happened before. I initially hated Annie Proulx' The Shipping News. When reading it again years later, I absolutely loved it. Still, for the life of me, I cannot see anything that I might have missed here. Again, enlighten me.
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- niia
- 11-01-22
Depressing and grim.
While it’s clear Cusk is a skilled writer, this book is a very depressing collection of encounters the main character has during the course of a week as she teaches a writing class in Athens. As the characters were brought to life, each one was worse than the next. Self-involved, almost heartless people who complain constantly about what it takes to raise children, along with some awful accounts of animal cruelty that honestly made me cringe because of the callousness. I basically hated every one of these navel-gazers and wished they would all go away. It’s all very pompous and the reader is very pompous and annoying, as well, making it even worse. I was close to finishing it because she is a good writer, but after many hours listening to them all complain about their lives, I couldn’t even finish the book.
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- BDP
- 01-19-23
The book is excellent - narration not so much
I loved the writing of this novel - so beautiful and interesting. The narration of the British characters' dialogue is great, but the voices of the Greek characters are horrendous. I can barely get myself to listen to the last 27 minutes that I have left. Admittedly, a Greek accent is very difficult and subtle, but it would have been so much better if someone Greek were reading the dialogue.
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