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Mania
- A Novel
- Narrado por: Abby Craden
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel about a lifelong friendship threatened by culture wars, from the New York Times bestselling author.
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A college English instructor, the constitutionally rebellious Pearson Converse rejected her restrictive Jehovah’s Witness upbringing as a teenager, and so has an aversion to dogma of any kind. Made impotent in the university classroom, she’s also enraged by the crushing of her exceptionally bright children’s spirits in primary school. Fortunately, she enjoys the confidence of a best friend, a media commentator with whom she can speak frankly about her socially unacceptable contempt for the MP movement. Or at least she thinks she can . . . until one day the political chasm between the two women becomes uncrossable, and a lifelong relationship implodes.
With echoes of Philip Roth’s The Human Stain, told in Lionel Shriver’s inimitable and iconoclastic voice, Mania is a sharp, acerbic, and ruthlessly funny book about the road to a delusional, self-destructive egalitarianism that our society is already on.
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The Mandibles
- A Family, 2029-2047
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 13 h y 45 m
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In 2029 the United States is engaged in a bloodless world war that will wipe out the savings of millions of American families. Overnight, on the international currency exchange, the "almighty dollar" plummets in value, to be replaced by a new global currency: the "bancor". In retaliation the president declares that America will default on its loans. With "Deadbeat Nation" being unable to borrow, the government prints money to cover its bills. What little remains for savers is rapidly eaten away by runaway inflation.
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So that's what the left and the right have in common!!!
- De Moe en 06-30-16
De: Lionel Shriver
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The Post-Birthday World
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby Sirois
- Duración: 20 h y 59 m
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Children's book illustrator Irina McGovern enjoys a quiet and settled life in London with her partner, fellow American expatriate Lawrence Trainer, a smart, loyal, disciplined intellectual at a prestigious think tank. To their small circle of friends, their relationship is rock solid, until the night Irina unaccountably finds herself dying to kiss another man: their old friend from South London, the stylish, extravagant, passionate top-ranking snooker player Ramsey Acton.
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A terrific examinination of relationships
- De Susan D en 12-04-10
De: Lionel Shriver
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A Perfectly Good Family
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
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Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house as well, it's war.
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"Po-TAH-toes"?!
- De Pamela Harvey en 09-22-09
De: Lionel Shriver
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Double Fault
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Renée Raudman
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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Tennis has been Willy Novinsky's one love ever since she first picked up a racquet at the age of four. A middle-ranked pro at 23, she's met her match in Eric Oberdorf, a low-ranked Princeton grad who also intends to make his mark on the international tennis circuit. Eric becomes Willy's first passion off the court, and eventually they marry. But while wedded life begins well, competition soon puts a strain on their relationship - and an accident sends Willy sliding irrevocably toward resentment, tragedy, and despair.
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Nine hours of arguing
- De Pamela Harvey en 09-28-11
De: Lionel Shriver
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The New Republic
- A Novel
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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Ostracized as a kid, Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. A disgruntled New York corporate lawyer, he's more than ready to leave his lucrative career for the excitement and uncertainty of journalism. When he's offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater that has sprouted a homegrown terrorist movement, Edgar recognizes the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he's been sent to replace, Barrington Saddler, as exactly the outsize character he longs to emulate.
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Not as clever as it's trying to be
- De Sharon en 02-10-15
De: Lionel Shriver
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The Human Stain
- De: Philip Roth
- Duración: 13 h
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It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a small New England town a distinguished professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist. The charge is unfounded, the persecution needless, but the truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret that he has kept for fifty years. This is the conclusion to Roth’s brilliant trilogy of post-war America—a story of seismic shifts in American history and a personal search for renewal and regeneration.
De: Philip Roth
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Game Control
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human race. Surely, Calvin whispers seductively in Eleanor's ear, if the poor are a responsibility they are also an imposition.
De: Lionel Shriver
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Property
- Stories Between Two Novellas
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Lionel Shriver
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times best-selling author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international best seller We Need to Talk About Kevin.
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Painful and drawn out
- De JR en 06-27-18
De: Lionel Shriver
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Secret Origins
- Superhero Fantasy Action Adventure
- De: J. D. Brink
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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★★★★★ “Outstanding rendition of superhero genres everywhere. Not your typical caped crusaders in these hero stories.” A sinister funhouse, apocalyptic cultists, and a mutant crime war. Suit up, hero. It’s going to be a busy day. It’s a lovely day for a summer carnival. The sun is out, the Twinkies are deep-fried, and romance is in the air. Luke Gillis (a.k.a. Spitball) finally musters the courage to ask his lab partner out on a date. But with a shape-shifting villain on the loose, his timing couldn’t be worse... Red Mantis is determined to shatter a kidnapping ring, but ...
De: J. D. Brink
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Wyrd Gods
- Timelessness, Book 1
- De: Susana Imaginário
- Narrado por: Sarah Kempton
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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Chronos, god of Time, and creator of the Universe, wants to destroy Eternity. A mysterious immortal seeks vengeance. And a reclusive Olympian deity does what no god should ever do: She answers a prayer. As punishment, she is stripped of her powers and trapped in a mortal's body. Now a Wyrd - a fated god - she is haunted by the memories and thoughts of her host and must hide her true identity in order to survive in Niflheim, the rival Norse Underworld.
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An interesting mythological romp!
- De superstardrifter en 01-28-21
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Piss & Vinegar
- De: Sam Sumac
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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When the twenty-three Altoonian spaceships arrive at Earth, they not only shatter the shaky peace of the place, they thrust Vice President James Fenimore Hunter into a role he may not be ready for. While the aliens keep saying they’ve come in peace, the real reasons and the real costs are more than the vice president can ignore. Unfortunately, in his bungling attempts to stop this absurd madness, he unwittingly makes the most foolish decisions and chooses the worst allies, and thereby becomes the unwitting agent of the apocalypse. But he needs to make things right...or die trying.
De: Sam Sumac
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Crossing Paths
- De: Paula L. Jones
- Narrado por: Estela A. Gonzalez
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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Iliana Delgado is a shy and soft-spoken 22-year-old housekeeper from a small town in Louisiana. Unhappy with her job and her life, her only source of joy is her writing. In her spare time, she creates sci-fi tales about a time traveler named Auguste Alonde. By means of her stories about Auguste, Iliana adventures across oceans of time and meets famous historical figures like Jane Austen. But when a cosmic event disturbs space-time, the world that Iliana believed existed only in her imagination merges with her reality.
De: Paula L. Jones
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- upgrayedd
- 04-14-24
Thoroughly enjoyed this
Shriver envisions a world created by Ellsworth Monkton Toohey and it’s every bit as incompetent and frightening as one could imagine.
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- Patricia
- 05-03-24
Are We There Yet?
Ms. Shriver piles nonsense upon nonsense to provide a terrifying yet mesmerizing mirror to the "real" world. This book is every bit as frightening as "1984" but a lot funnier. Funny, yes, but it is very nervous laughter.
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- Tina
- 04-13-24
Lionel Shriver is back doing what she does best!
I highly recommend this refreshingly entertaining and thought-provoking listen...especially if you enjoyed Shriver’s earlier dystopian work, "The Mandibles.”
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- Chris Esse
- 04-17-24
Fiction for non-fiction lovers
Going back and forth between listening to this book and listening to news and podcasts about the real world, I often confused one for the other. I love her clear avoidance of politics because the message is louder for it. I’m just buzzing right now… and a bit frightened.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-03-24
This is 2024
Loved this book, feels like we already live in it. Don’t agree with all of shriver’s assertions but very witty and extremely clever.
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- Sam Veltre
- 04-25-24
Great story if you are willing to be open to it
Not at all what I expected great stuff for regardless of what your political spectrum is. Even if some of the ideas don’t align with you is fictionalized version of America is something you need to listen to to know what we society of for good or bad.
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- J
- 05-17-24
a brilliant and timely novel
Cutting, insightful social commentary paralleling the manias of our day, And yet it manages to do more than just that; this is an insight into our best and worst traits though an exaggerating and absurdist lens.
a well narrated, gripping story
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- Ten
- 04-20-24
Boring
It was slow, unlikeable characters, no interesting twists or climax. I wouldn’t recommend. Maybe I’ll give one of her other books a try.
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- ÿrn Johnson
- 05-17-24
Could have been a short short story.
I agree on concerns regarding the insane wokeism drowning us today but I simply found this (parody?) on this mental illness to long, not funny (female humor) and repeditive.
And please, get a new narrator.
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