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Jackie

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  • Chronic City: A Novel | [Jonathan Lethem]
    Chronic City: A Novel
    UNABRIDGED

    Chronic City: A Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 58 mins)
    • By Jonathan Lethem
    • Narrated By Mark Deakins
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (116)
    Performance
    (20)
    Story
    (22)

    Chase Insteadman, a handsome fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom. Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancée is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like his fiancée , Chase is adrift, she in Earth's stratosphere, he in a vague routine.

    Bobby Byrd says: "Don't listen to the naysayers!"
    "the boomer generation Bellow"
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    This is an excellent performance rich with texture and nuance. I consider Lethem up there in the genre of one Saul Bellow. Boomer Bellow. Nice find.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Best and the Brightest | [David Halberstam]
    The Best and the Brightest
    ABRIDGED

    The Best and the Brightest

    • ABRIDGED (3 hrs and 1 min)
    • By David Halberstam
    • Narrated By David Clennon
    Overall
    (74)
    Performance
    (22)
    Story
    (22)

    Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country's recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam, and why did we lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling audiobook has never been superseded. It is an American classic.

    Jackie says: "Unabridged, please"
    "Unabridged, please"
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    This audio is really only a brief overview of this completely absorbing book. After listening to this abridged version (why abridge a good book?) I had to run to the library for the real thing. A must read (the book, unabridged) for any one interested in politics. Abridged audio will hook you to the book.

    5 of 5 people found this review helpful

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