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- De: Saul Bellow
- Narrado por: Christopher Hurt
- Duración: 18 h y 5 m
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For years, they were the best of friends: the grand, erratic Humboldt and the ambitious young Charlie. But now Humboldt has died a failure, and Charlie's success-ridden life has taken various turns for the worse. Then Humboldt acts from the grave to change Charlie's life: he has left Charlie something in his will.
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Great Book, Great Reader
- De Scott en 05-10-08
De: Saul Bellow
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The Last Madam
- A Life in the New Orleans Underworld
- De: Christine Wiltz
- Narrado por: Donna Postel
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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1916: Norma Wallace, age 15, arrived in New Orleans. Sexy and shrewd, she quickly went from streetwalker to madam and by 1920 had opened what became a legendary house of prostitution. There she entertained a steady stream of governors, gangsters, and movie stars until she was arrested at last in 1962. Shortly before she died in 1974, she tape-recorded her memories. With those tapes and original research, Christine Wiltz chronicles Norma's rise and fall with the social history of New Orleans.
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pronunciations
- De lynda en 07-29-19
De: Christine Wiltz
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The Town
- A Novel of the Snopes Family
- De: William Faulkner
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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The story of Flem Snopes' ruthless struggle to take over the town of Jefferson, Mississippi, this is the second volume of Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the post-bellum South.
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Accessible Faulkner
- De Doug en 03-28-11
De: William Faulkner
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Babbitt
- De: Sinclair Lewis
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 13 h y 52 m
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In this sardonic portrait of the up-and-coming middle class during the prosperous 1920s, Sinclair Lewis perfectly captures the sound, the feel, and the attitudes of the generation that created the cult of consumerism. With a sharp eye for detail and keen powers of observation, Lewis tracks successful realtor George Babbitt's daily struggles to rise to the top of his profession while maintaining his reputation as an upstanding family man.
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Makes You Think
- De E. Pearson en 02-21-13
De: Sinclair Lewis
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Peyton Place
- De: Grace Metalious
- Narrado por: Tim O'Connor
- Duración: 16 h y 44 m
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In 1956, when this novel was first published, communities all over New England snapped up copies to see if they were the town portrayed in the book. Peyton Place is the story of a repressive New England town known for its high standards of public morality, and the steamy sexual activities that take place behind its bedroom doors.
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Best book I've read to date!
- De Crusader en 11-07-11
De: Grace Metalious
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Babbitt
- De: Sinclair Lewis
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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On the surface, everything is all right with Babbitt’s world of the solid, successful businessman. But in reality, George F. Babbitt is a lonely, middle-aged man. He doesn’t understand his family, has an unsuccessful attempt at an affair, and is almost financially ruined when he dares to voice sympathy for some striking workers. Babbitt finds that his only safety lies deep in the fold of those who play it safe. He is a man who has added a new word to our language: a “Babbitt,” meaning someone who conforms unthinkingly, a sheep.
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Jonathan Franzen, circa 1922
- De Joe Kraus en 04-09-16
De: Sinclair Lewis
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Clara Callan
- De: Richard B. Wright
- Narrado por: Anne Twomey, Joanna P. Adler
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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Two sisters, small-town Ontario, 1934. Canadian author Richard Wright tells their story, from the ordinary to the extraoridinary with an eye for the commonplace and poignant sense of the larger undercurrents that change people's lives.
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charming intimate refreshing
- De L en 09-10-04
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Welcome to the Monkey House
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: David Strathairn, Maria Tucci, Bill Irwin, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
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Classic Vonnegut
- De Michael Carrato en 08-17-06
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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A Flash of Green
- A Novel
- De: John D. MacDonald
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 16 h y 17 m
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A classic novel by John D. MacDonald with an exclusive introduction written and read by Dean Koontz. A Flash of Green tells the gripping story of small-town corruption and two people brave enough to fight back, featuring many of the themes John D. MacDonald explored better than anyone in his legendary career as a leading crime novelist. The opportunists have taken over Palm City. Silent and deadly, like the snakes that infest the nearby swamps, they lay hidden from view, waiting for the right moment to strike. Political subterfuge has already eased the residents toward selling out.
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Disjointed depressing
- De Carol I. Meeds en 11-18-22
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BUtterfield 8
- De: John O'Hara, Lorin Stein - introduction
- Narrado por: Gretchen Mol
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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A masterpiece of American fiction and a best seller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 lays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneath the surface of a society still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. One Sunday morning, Gloria wakes up in a stranger's apartment with nothing but a torn evening dress, stockings, and panties. When she steals a fur coat from the wardrobe to wear home, she unleashes a series of events that can only end in tragedy.
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Wildly Uneven
- De David P en 08-27-15
De: John O'Hara, y otros
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The New York Stories
- De: John O'Hara, E. L. Doctorow - foreword, Steven Goldleaf - editor introduction
- Narrado por: Dallas Roberts, Dylan Baker, Bobby Cannavale, y otros
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Collected for the first time, here are the New York stories of one of the 20th century’s definitive chroniclers of the city - the speakeasies and highballs, social climbers and cinema stars, mistresses and powerbrokers, unsparingly observed by a popular American master of realism. Spanning his four-decade career, these more than 30 refreshingly frank, sparely written stories are among John O’Hara’s finest work, exploring the materialist aspirations and sexual exploits of flawed, prodigally human characters and showcasing the snappy dialogue.
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I read it because I paid for it.
- De MaryAnn en 10-01-19
De: John O'Hara, y otros
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Ten North Frederick
- De: John O'Hara, Jonathan Dee - introduction
- Narrado por: Scott Aiello
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
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Joe Chapin led a storybook life. A successful small-town lawyer with a beautiful wife, two over-achieving children, and aspirations to be president, he seemed to have it all. But as his daughter looks back on his life, a different man emerges: one in conflict with his ambitious and shrewish wife, terrified that the misdeeds of his children will dash his political dreams, and in love with a model half his age.
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Great story
- De Amazon Customer en 12-26-23
De: John O'Hara, y otros
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The Ginger Man
- De: J. P. Donleavy
- Narrado por: Patrick Moy
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavy's wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American ne'er-do-well studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Dangerfield's appetite for women, liquor, and general roguishness is insatiable - and he satisfies it with endless charm.
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The lyrical quality of money is strange
- De Darwin8u en 04-02-18
De: J. P. Donleavy
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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
- A Novel
- De: Max Porter
- Narrado por: Jot Davies
- Duración: 1 h y 43 m
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Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar - a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised. In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and babysitter.
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Stunningly Creative
- De Rainking en 07-15-21
De: Max Porter
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A Handful of Dust
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Andrew Sachs
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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Evelyn Waugh's 1934 novel is a bitingly funny vision of aristocratic decadence in England between the wars. It tells the story of Tony Last, who, to the irritation of his wife, is inordinately obsessed with his Victorian Gothic country house and life. When Lady Brenda Last embarks on an affair with the worthless John Beaver out of boredom with her husband, she sets in motion a sequence of tragicomic disasters that reveal Waugh at his most scathing.
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Slow Start then Subtle
- De Michael en 05-16-15
De: Evelyn Waugh
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BUtterfield 8
- De: John O'Hara, Lorin Stein - introduction
- Narrado por: Gretchen Mol
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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A masterpiece of American fiction and a best seller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 lays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneath the surface of a society still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. One Sunday morning, Gloria wakes up in a stranger's apartment with nothing but a torn evening dress, stockings, and panties. When she steals a fur coat from the wardrobe to wear home, she unleashes a series of events that can only end in tragedy.
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Wildly Uneven
- De David P en 08-27-15
De: John O'Hara, y otros
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The New York Stories
- De: John O'Hara, E. L. Doctorow - foreword, Steven Goldleaf - editor introduction
- Narrado por: Dallas Roberts, Dylan Baker, Bobby Cannavale, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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Collected for the first time, here are the New York stories of one of the 20th century’s definitive chroniclers of the city - the speakeasies and highballs, social climbers and cinema stars, mistresses and powerbrokers, unsparingly observed by a popular American master of realism. Spanning his four-decade career, these more than 30 refreshingly frank, sparely written stories are among John O’Hara’s finest work, exploring the materialist aspirations and sexual exploits of flawed, prodigally human characters and showcasing the snappy dialogue.
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I read it because I paid for it.
- De MaryAnn en 10-01-19
De: John O'Hara, y otros
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Ten North Frederick
- De: John O'Hara, Jonathan Dee - introduction
- Narrado por: Scott Aiello
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
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Joe Chapin led a storybook life. A successful small-town lawyer with a beautiful wife, two over-achieving children, and aspirations to be president, he seemed to have it all. But as his daughter looks back on his life, a different man emerges: one in conflict with his ambitious and shrewish wife, terrified that the misdeeds of his children will dash his political dreams, and in love with a model half his age.
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Great story
- De Amazon Customer en 12-26-23
De: John O'Hara, y otros
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The Ginger Man
- De: J. P. Donleavy
- Narrado por: Patrick Moy
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavy's wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American ne'er-do-well studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Dangerfield's appetite for women, liquor, and general roguishness is insatiable - and he satisfies it with endless charm.
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The lyrical quality of money is strange
- De Darwin8u en 04-02-18
De: J. P. Donleavy
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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
- A Novel
- De: Max Porter
- Narrado por: Jot Davies
- Duración: 1 h y 43 m
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Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar - a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised. In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and babysitter.
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Stunningly Creative
- De Rainking en 07-15-21
De: Max Porter
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A Handful of Dust
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Andrew Sachs
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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Evelyn Waugh's 1934 novel is a bitingly funny vision of aristocratic decadence in England between the wars. It tells the story of Tony Last, who, to the irritation of his wife, is inordinately obsessed with his Victorian Gothic country house and life. When Lady Brenda Last embarks on an affair with the worthless John Beaver out of boredom with her husband, she sets in motion a sequence of tragicomic disasters that reveal Waugh at his most scathing.
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Slow Start then Subtle
- De Michael en 05-16-15
De: Evelyn Waugh
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Pal Joey
- De: John O'Hara
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 2 h y 41 m
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On the seedy side of Chicago nightlife in the 1930s, Joey Evans is a poor man's Bing Crosby - a big-talking small-time nightclub crooner down on his luck but always on the make. In slangy, error-littered letters signed "Pal Joey", he recounts his exploits with brash nightclub managers, shady business partners, and every pretty girl he meets. Charismatic yet conniving, Pal Joey is a smooth operator whose bravado and big ideas disguise a far less self-assured soul caught up in the rags-to-riches dream of the Jazz Age.
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another fabulous o'hara. read everything of his!
- De Autodidact en 01-23-17
De: John O'Hara
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Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
- A Novel
- De: Geoff Dyer
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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Every two years the international art world descends on Venice for the opening of the Biennale. Among them is Jeff Atman, a jaded and dissolute journalist, whose dedication to the cause of Bellini-fuelled party-going is only intermittently disturbed by the obligation to file a story.
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Hate Jeff in Venice, Love Death in Varanasi
- De Frank en 01-28-11
De: Geoff Dyer
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Mildred Pierce
- De: James M. Cain
- Narrado por: Christine Williams
- Duración: 10 h
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Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter.
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Mildred -- you pierce my heart
- De P. Giorgio en 03-11-11
De: James M. Cain
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Under the Volcano
- A Novel
- De: Malcolm Lowry
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 14 h y 50 m
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On the Day of the Dead, in 1938, Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic and ruined man, is fatefully living out his last day, drowning himself in mescal while his former wife and half-brother look on, powerless to help him. The events of this one day unfold against a backdrop unforgettable for its evocation of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical.
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Excellent...but not for everyone
- De Melinda en 12-07-10
De: Malcolm Lowry
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The Berlin Stories
- De: Christopher Isherwood
- Narrado por: Michael York
- Duración: 2 h y 58 m
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Christopher Isherwood's dramatized memoirs are prophetic images of a country preparing itself to embrace Hitler and the Third Reich. The Berlin Stories includes two works published together: The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin. These modern classics reveal in poignant detail the tragedy of mid-20th-century Germany.
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Nothing happens...
- De Tim Byers en 02-01-07
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Rabbit, Run
- De: John Updike
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
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Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his - or any other - generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is 26 years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty - even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness, and divine Grace. Though his flight from home traces a zigzag of evasion, he holds to the faith that he is on the right path.
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A Thinking Man's Novel
- De L. Berlyne en 01-12-09
De: John Updike
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Victory
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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From one of the greatest modern writers in world literature comes a magnificent story of love, adventure, and rescue played out against the shimmering South Seas. Alone on a tropical island, a Swedish baron and a beautiful violinist discover the long-lost joys of love. But when two treasure hunters arrive on the beach, the lovers know that evil has invaded their romantic paradise—an evil they are powerless to stop.
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Beautiful, sad and powerful
- De Darwin8u en 01-20-13
De: Joseph Conrad
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Deliverance
- De: James Dickey
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.
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"A river runs through it..."
- De karen en 11-01-13
De: James Dickey
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The Executioner's Song
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Maxwell Hamilton
- Duración: 42 h y 37 m
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Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prize-winning and unforgettable classic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore now in audio. Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, The Executioner's Song follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 and killed them in cold blood. After being tried and convicted, he immediately insisted on being executed for his crime. To do so, he fought a system that seemed intent on keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him to death.
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Pulitzer-winner spoiled by numskulled narration
- De W Perry Hall en 05-21-18
De: Norman Mailer
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Down and Out in Paris and London
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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Orwell's own experiences inspire this semi-autobiographical novel about a man living in Paris in the early 1930s without a penny. The narrator's poverty brings him into contact with strange incidents and characters, which he manages to chronicle with great sensitivity and graphic power. The latter half of the book takes the English narrator to his home city, London, where the world of poverty is different in externals only.
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The King of Boldness, Clearness, and Audacity
- De Darwin8u en 05-21-12
De: George Orwell
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- De: James Joyce
- Narrado por: Colin Farrell
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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This quintessential coming-of-age novel describes the early life of Stephen Dedalus. It is set in Ireland during the 19th century, which was a time of emerging Irish nationalism and conservative Catholicism. Highly autobiographical in nature, the work is also notable for its being the first one in which Joyce uses innovative “stream of consciousness” writing style. A Portrait... follows Stephen Dedalus from his babyhood into early adulthood.
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Bitterly disappointed
- De James en 01-29-19
De: James Joyce
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The Recognitions
- De: William Gaddis
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 47 h y 55 m
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Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate "originals" - pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and fake have become indistinguishable; yet Gwyon's forgeries reflect a truth that others cannot touch - cannot even recognize.
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Breathtaking, Dizzying, Stimulating, Funny
- De andrew en 11-17-10
De: William Gaddis
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- ebbes bruk
- 10-14-18
one of my favorite books from college
it's still a favorite. loved to listen to it, o'hara's ear into how people speak is such a pleasure to hear, Samarra lends itself well to reading aloud. and I loved this narrator, everything about his reading was just perfectly done. jazzy, yet not too much. Camarga is and will forever be Julian English.
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- A Carmack
- 07-27-18
Narrator is terrible
I guess I got so spoiled by (and/or used to) Scott Aiello's narration of O'Hara's 'Ten North Frederick' that when I listened to Camargo's hurried, uninterested narration of 'Appointment in Samarra' I couldn't stand in and didn't want to invest any time in it. He reads it too quickly, and sometimes slurs words together so that they are incomprehensible. I tried listening at a reduced speed on the Audible App but most the time I listen on PC, which doesn't offer reduced speeds. But the speed was not the only problem. The narrator also sounds uninterested in what's he reading so that not only does he want to finish as quickly as possible he shows no interest in what he's reading. I couldn't listen to much of this story: I have given the narrator a 1, the story a 4 (based on what I know of O'Hara from "Ten North" and "New York Stories'). I will limit myself to reading this work in print, where I can enjoy it.
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- Mike Henderson
- 11-21-16
Unexpected pleasure...
Reading 100 Modern Novels, so probably wouldn't have come across this otherwise...Although a dated setting, the characters pop off the page..Some storylines, especially Al Greco, were left hanging, but life doesn't always tie off neatly...
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- Darryl
- 12-29-13
excellent & a bit existentialist & Hemingway-esque
very nice writing. nice period detail. a bit Gatsby-ish but written with Hemingway-esque tone, and with the "lost generation" themes running through it, some aimless, drunken living, frank detail and again i think very existentialist feeling.
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- Stephen
- 06-29-14
Appointment in Samarra
Story: Not much of a story but it is interesting background and writing. It was slowed in the middle but then came to a quick ending.
Production: The reader was excellent and the effects were good.
Overall, I would recommend to buy but do not make it an urgent buy.
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- Michael
- 04-25-15
Quite good, but not a classic
O’Hara thought he was better than Hemingway…he wasn’t. Yet this novel has its points, examining the power of society and belief. I did not find this one of the best novels of the twentieth century, but it is more than respectable. The power of the story is the all too obvious inability of humans to be themselves. Hemingway liked this novel, which makes sense. Hemingway and O’Hara examined the same issue (society vs. individuality) from utterly different perspectives and both valued truth. Both perspectives are interesting making this, for me, a good read, if not a must read. I did not find this a downer as the point is to avoid reaching your end without ever being your true self.
The narration is good, but not great, occasionally losing intensity necessary to the story.
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- Programmer
- 05-02-16
Not perfect, but very good
I suspect that this book is a wonderful read, but not as wonderful a listen
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- LizzyBethC
- 11-06-18
Not sure yet...
Just finished and I'm a little stunned. Felt like I was finally figuring it out and it ended. It starts with many character, introduced quickly, then narrows it down to a manageable few. Still, I wasn't prepared for the end at all.... Narration was excellent and the author captured the times and society so well, I always liked forward to my next listen.
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- green ice cream garden
- 04-07-17
Didn't think I'd like it
This was a surprise. Another one from the classic 100 a friend challenged me to read. It was fun to go back in this time and try to understand the hip lingo. More important though is the portryal of the wealthy, their vices, vanity, and shortcomings. Scary that I don't believe much has changed.
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- Autodidact
- 11-02-16
I adore John O Hara
Mr. O'Hate skewers all with his biting, funny, poignant, heartbreaking social observations
A-1 read. I am reading all of his writing. Brilliant
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