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Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of 86 stories, now we have 89 in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don't know what to do with themselves - and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives - and hers - and ours.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Collection
- De XX en 04-25-20
De: Clarice Lispector, y otros
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The Final Victim
- De: Wendy Corsi Staub
- Narrado por: Emily Cauldwell
- Duración: 12 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Everyone in Savannah, Georgia knows the Remington estate. The rambling old house bears blatant testimony not just to the esteemed family's vast wealth, but to unbearable tragedy and whispered secrets. Soon, the Remington's will all come home to this secluded plantation nestled deep in the shadow of moss-covered trees. Then they will have to die...one by one... For Charlotte Remington Maitland, the past five years have been a haze of pain and loss.
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4 out of 5 stars
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As always great story
- De Corinna en 04-28-22
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She Wouldn't Change a Thing
- De: Sarah Adlakha
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
When 39-year-old Maria Forssmann wakes up in her 17-year-old body, she doesn’t know how she got there. All she does know is she has to get back: to her home in Bienville, Mississippi, to her job as a successful psychiatrist and, most importantly, to her husband, daughters, and unborn son.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very Religious
- De Gabrielle Glendening en 11-18-21
De: Sarah Adlakha
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Bellefleur
- Gothic Saga Series, Book 1
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 27 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 46
A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. They own vast lands and profitable businesses, they employ their neighbors, and they influence the government. A prolific and eccentric group, they include several millionaires, a mass murderer, a spiritual seeker who climbs into the mountains looking for God, a wealthy noctambulist who dies of a chicken scratch.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Old School Gothic Literature (Not a beach read)
- De Keijon ford en 05-01-20
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Dragonfly Summer
- De: J.H. Moncrieff
- Narrado por: Natalie Gold
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 955
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 836
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 834
Jo Carter never thought she'd return to Clear Springs, Minnesota. But when the former journalist receives a cryptic note about the disappearance of her friend Sam twenty years before, she's compelled to find out what really happened. During her investigation, she learns another high school friend has died in a mysterious accident. Nothing is as it seems, and Jo must probe Clear Springs' darkest corners and her own painful and unreliable memories to discover the truth - and save herself from the killer who could still be on the hunt.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Home is not always where the heart is...
- De shelley en 02-15-20
De: J.H. Moncrieff
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Two Crosses
- Secrets of the Cross, Book 1
- De: Elizabeth Musser
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 57
The glimmering Huguenot cross she so innocently wears leads her deep into the shadows. When Gabriella Madison arrives in the French village of Castelnau in 1961 to continue her university studies, she doesn’t anticipate being drawn into the secretive world behind the Algerian war for independence from France. And the further she delves into the war efforts, the more her faith is challenged. The people who surround her bring a whirlwind of transforming forces.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Faith, Romance, Spies, and Fascinating History
- De Amazon Customer en 05-02-19
De: Elizabeth Musser
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The Killer's Cousin
- De: Nancy Werlin
- Narrado por: Nick Podehl
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
After 17-year-old David is forced to stand trial for his girlfriend's death, he is sent to live with his aunt and uncle and their young daughter, Lily, to avoid the media frenzy. But all is not well at his relatives' house. His aunt and uncle are not speaking to each other, and Lily seems dead set on making David's life a torment. And then there's the issue of their older daughter, Kathy, who died under mysterious circumstances a number of years back.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story, great narrator!
- De Amazon Customer en 03-17-15
De: Nancy Werlin
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The Setting Sun
- New Directions Book
- De: Osamu Dazai
- Narrado por: June Angela
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORE OSAMU DAZAI TRANSLATIONS PLEASE!!!!!
- De Lucky en 10-19-22
De: Osamu Dazai
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The Parisian
- De: Isabella Hammad
- Narrado por: Fiona Button
- Duración: 20 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 159
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 135
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 137
A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Overly ambitious
- De Turtle en 06-16-19
De: Isabella Hammad
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Mayhem
- De: Sarah Pinborough
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 126
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 115
A new killer is stalking the streets of London’s East End. Though newspapers have dubbed him 'the Torso Killer’, this murderer’s work is overshadowed by the hysteria surrounding Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel crimes. The victims are women too, but their dismembered bodies, wrapped in rags and tied up with string, are pulled out of the Thames - and the heads are missing….
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just Wow.
- De Sylvia en 03-04-14
De: Sarah Pinborough
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An Ordinary Wonder
- De: Buki Papillon
- Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 18
Oto leaves for boarding school with one plan: Excel and escape his cruel home. Falling in love with his roommate was certainly not on the agenda, but fear and shame force him to hide his love and true self. Back home, weighed down by the expectations of their wealthy and powerful family, the love of Oto's twin sister wavers, and, as their world begins to crumble around them, Oto must make drastic choices that will alter the family's lives for ever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing
- De Mary P Browne en 09-20-21
De: Buki Papillon
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The Promise
- De: Damon Galgut
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 605
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 524
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 519
Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life’s unfulfilled potential; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent novel
- De ALG en 11-09-21
De: Damon Galgut
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The War of the Roses
- De: Warren Adler
- Narrado por: Dave Giorgio
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
The Roses met at an auction on Cape Cod. Oliver had just bought a Staffordshire figurine-one of a pair-but Barbara outbid him for its mate. The figurines belonged together, and so did the Roses. Now the two objets d'art sat together on a shelf in the Roses' home-symbols of the passion their owners shared. A passion that united them and now was about to tear them apart.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Middling novel and poor reader
- De Gwynne O'Reagan en 04-02-10
De: Warren Adler
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The Winemakers
- A Novel of Wine and Secrets
- De: Jan Moran
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 13 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 210
Years ago, the Rosetta family's hard-won dreams of staking their claim in the vineyards of California came to fruition. Now high-spirited, passionate Caterina Rosetta, who has inherited both her mother's talent for crafting the finest wines and also her indomitable will, wants nothing more than to win her mother's approval and work at her side. But that can never happen, because Caterina is keeping a secret that could ruin her: a daughter of her own, fathered by the love of her life, who left her without explanation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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awesome.
- De Joe C. Smith en 04-25-21
De: Jan Moran
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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
- A Novel
- De: Juliet Grames
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 16 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 677
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 590
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 590
For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents - moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella’s own mother is convinced that her daughter is cursed or haunted. When the Fortunas emigrate to America on the cusp of World War II, Stella and her sister, Tina, must come of age side by side in a hostile new world with strict expectations for each of them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Misogyny at its worst
- De brenda en 01-15-20
De: Juliet Grames
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Elfland
- Aetherial Tales, Book 1
- De: Freda Warrington
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 22 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 205
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 187
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 187
Elfland is an intimate, sensual novel of people—both human and Aetherial—caught between duty and desire. It is a story of families, and of Rose Fox, a woman born to magic but tormented by her place in her adopted world.Led by Auberon Fox, a group of Aetherials—call them the Fair Folk, if you will—live among us, indistinguishable from humans. Every seven years, on the Night of the Summer Stars, Lawrence Wilder, the Gatekeeper, throws open all gates to the Other World. But this time, something has gone wrong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Miscommunication is an obnoxious plot device
- De Robin en 05-26-16
De: Freda Warrington
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The Doll-Master
- And Other Tales of Terror
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Robert Fass, Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
In the title story, a young boy becomes obsessed with his cousin's doll after she tragically passes away from leukemia. As he grows older, he begins to collect "found dolls" from the surrounding neighborhoods and stores his treasures in the abandoned carriage house on his family's estate. But just what kind of dolls are they?In The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, Joyce Carol Oates evokes the “fascination of the abomination” that is at the core of the most profound, the most unsettling, and the most memorable of dark mystery fiction.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Boring
- De Kelly en 10-17-19
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Night, Neon
- Tales of Mystery and Suspense
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Joe Hempel, Chelsea Stephens
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7
From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand-new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life - from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A perfect collection of stories
- De Gabrielle Britton en 11-23-23
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We Were the Mulvaneys
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Scott Shina
- Duración: 22 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 353
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 273
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 279
Judd is the youngest of the four Mulvaney children - three boys and a girl - on their parents’ lush farm in upstate New York. In his childhood, Judd is swept along by the sheer energy of the Mulvaneys and their wealth of beloved family stories. But now, 30 years old, Judd looks back through his memories to tell the secrets that eventually ripped apart the fabric of his storybook family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overlooked Masterpiece
- De Jason en 10-26-12
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High Crime Area
- Tales of Darkness and Dread
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan, Ray Chase, Donna Postel, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 22
In the title story, a white aspiring professor is convinced she is being followed. No need to panic - she has a handgun stowed away in her purse, just in case. But when she turns to confront her black male shadow, the situation isn't what she expects. In "The Rescuer" a promising graduate student detours to inner-city Trenton, New Jersey, to save her brother from a downward spiral. But she soon finds out there may be more to his world than to hers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Dark, Disturbing, Thought provoking.
- De Matthew S. Hill en 03-18-17
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Evil Eye
- Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Donna Postel, Luci Christian, Chris Patton, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 56
Listeners know that few authors are able to create an atmosphere of unease and terror as well as Oates, a fact confirmed by the four novellas presented here. All the novellas in this collection revolve around the theme of love gone wrong - horribly, shockingly wrong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Some of the stories are excellent!
- De Matthew S. Hill en 03-29-17
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American Appetites
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Barbara Caruso
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 48
Ian and Glynnis McCullough, intelligent, professional, and successful, are the envy of their affluent friends. But suddenly, an unexpected plea for help and a cancelled check send their tranquility spinning out of control.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another Great Book By Joyce Carol Oates
- De Jason en 12-06-12
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The Doll-Master
- And Other Tales of Terror
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Robert Fass, Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
In the title story, a young boy becomes obsessed with his cousin's doll after she tragically passes away from leukemia. As he grows older, he begins to collect "found dolls" from the surrounding neighborhoods and stores his treasures in the abandoned carriage house on his family's estate. But just what kind of dolls are they?In The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, Joyce Carol Oates evokes the “fascination of the abomination” that is at the core of the most profound, the most unsettling, and the most memorable of dark mystery fiction.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Boring
- De Kelly en 10-17-19
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Night, Neon
- Tales of Mystery and Suspense
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Joe Hempel, Chelsea Stephens
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7
From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand-new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life - from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A perfect collection of stories
- De Gabrielle Britton en 11-23-23
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We Were the Mulvaneys
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Scott Shina
- Duración: 22 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 353
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 273
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 279
Judd is the youngest of the four Mulvaney children - three boys and a girl - on their parents’ lush farm in upstate New York. In his childhood, Judd is swept along by the sheer energy of the Mulvaneys and their wealth of beloved family stories. But now, 30 years old, Judd looks back through his memories to tell the secrets that eventually ripped apart the fabric of his storybook family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overlooked Masterpiece
- De Jason en 10-26-12
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High Crime Area
- Tales of Darkness and Dread
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan, Ray Chase, Donna Postel, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 22
In the title story, a white aspiring professor is convinced she is being followed. No need to panic - she has a handgun stowed away in her purse, just in case. But when she turns to confront her black male shadow, the situation isn't what she expects. In "The Rescuer" a promising graduate student detours to inner-city Trenton, New Jersey, to save her brother from a downward spiral. But she soon finds out there may be more to his world than to hers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Dark, Disturbing, Thought provoking.
- De Matthew S. Hill en 03-18-17
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Evil Eye
- Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Donna Postel, Luci Christian, Chris Patton, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 56
Listeners know that few authors are able to create an atmosphere of unease and terror as well as Oates, a fact confirmed by the four novellas presented here. All the novellas in this collection revolve around the theme of love gone wrong - horribly, shockingly wrong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Some of the stories are excellent!
- De Matthew S. Hill en 03-29-17
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American Appetites
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Barbara Caruso
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 48
Ian and Glynnis McCullough, intelligent, professional, and successful, are the envy of their affluent friends. But suddenly, an unexpected plea for help and a cancelled check send their tranquility spinning out of control.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another Great Book By Joyce Carol Oates
- De Jason en 12-06-12
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Lovely, Dark, Deep
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Jason Culp, Maggi-Meg Reed
- Duración: 16 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 69
From the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of ten spellbinding stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all. Insightful, disturbing, and mesmerizing in their lyrical precision, the stories in Lovely, Dark, Deep display Joyce Carol Oates's astonishing ability to make visceral the fear, hurt, and uncertainty that lurks at the edges of ordinary lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Definitely Dark and Deep
- De Monica en 01-10-17
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The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
- Novellas and Stories of Unspeakable Dread
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Adam Verner, Christine Williams
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, in The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares Joyce Carol Oates spins six imaginative tales of suspense. The Corn Maiden is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet, but somewhat slow, eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. Her single mother comes home one night to find her missing and panics, frantically knocking on the doors of her neighbors.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Unsettling
- De Michael en 07-03-12
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A Fair Maiden
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Angela Goethals
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 701
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 635
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 636
Sixteen year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the gracious streets of Bayhead Harbor with her two summer babysitting charges when she's approached by silver-haired, elegant Marcus Kidder. At first, his interest in her seems harmless, even pleasant, like his name - a sort of gentle joke. His beautiful home, the children's books that he's written, his classical music, the marvelous art in his study, his lavish presents to her. But by degrees, almost imperceptibly, something changes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intense, Sad, and Gripping
- De Jean Clarenson en 04-12-21
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Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.
- A Novel
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Cheryl Smith
- Duración: 30 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 106
Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: When a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oates’s latest novel is a vivid exploration of race, psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing, as well as an intimate family novel in the tradition of the author’s best-selling We Were the Mulvaneys.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A New All Time Favorite
- De Meg en 06-22-20
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Blonde
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Jayne Atkinson
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 414
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 304
She was an all-American girl who became a legend of unparalleled stature. She inspired the adoration of millions, and her life has beguiled generations of fans and fellow artists. The story of Norma Jeane Baker, better known by her studio name, Marilyn Monroe, has been dissected for more than three decades, but never has it been captured in a narrative as breathtaking and transforming as Blonde.
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1 out of 5 stars
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME? NO UNABRIDGED VERSION?
- De C. Boatenreiter en 02-07-13
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Black Water
- De: Joyce Carol Oats
- Narrado por: Amanda Plummer
- Duración: 3 h y 8 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 19
The senator. The girl. The accident. Oates creates an unforgettable allegory about power, morals, and ambition. The ghost of an American tragedy is resurrected in order to give voice to its silenced victim - an idealistic young woman too easily seduced by a Camelot fairy tale.
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4 out of 5 stars
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interesting but maybe not for audio
- De wainstead en 11-16-20
De: Joyce Carol Oats
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Babysitter
- A Novel
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Kirby Heyborne, Max Meyers
- Duración: 17 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 82
In the waning days of the turbulent 1970s, in the wake of unsolved child-killings that have shocked Detroit, the lives of several residents are drawn together with tragic consequences. There is Hannah, wife of a prominent local businessman, who has begun an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger whose identity remains elusive; Mikey, a canny street hustler who finds himself on a chilling mission to rectify injustice; and the serial killer known as Babysitter, an enigmatic and terrifying figure at the periphery of elite Detroit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insidious Evil
- De Edward Martinez en 09-09-22
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The Falls
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 17 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 100
A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. A newlywed, he has left behind his wife, Ariah Erskine, in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. "The Widow Bride of The Falls", as Ariah comes to be known, begins a relentless, seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Clean Out Your Ears
- De Harry I. Shuman en 07-26-05
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Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell, Xe Sands
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 13
The book opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper's Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters the minds of both the woman and her married lover, each consumed by alternating thoughts of disgust and arousal, as he rushes, amorously, murderously, to her door.
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2 out of 5 stars
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What??????
- De KR en 09-19-22
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Bellefleur
- Gothic Saga Series, Book 1
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 27 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 46
A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. They own vast lands and profitable businesses, they employ their neighbors, and they influence the government. A prolific and eccentric group, they include several millionaires, a mass murderer, a spiritual seeker who climbs into the mountains looking for God, a wealthy noctambulist who dies of a chicken scratch.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Old School Gothic Literature (Not a beach read)
- De Keijon ford en 05-01-20
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My Life as a Rat
- A Novel
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Sadie Alexandru
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 132
My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age 12, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalled episodes, Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as the initially beloved youngest child of seven Kerrigan children who inadvertently “informs” on her brothers, setting into motion their arrests and convictions and her own long estrangement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heavy Topics & Satisfying Story
- De Oscar en 06-30-19
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A Widow's Story
- A Memoir
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Ellen Parker
- Duración: 14 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 243
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 185
In a work unlike anything she's written before, National Book Award-winner Joyce Carol Oates unveils a poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of her husband of 46 years and its wrenching, surprising aftermath.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Breathless!
- De Pamela Harvey en 02-18-11
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Cardiff, by the Sea
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 07-17-23
All very moving and haunting
Excellent and very emotional tales. I highly recommend this set of works that reveal their inner turmoil.
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- Clair Stocks
- 10-11-23
Just ok
These 4 novellas were fine. I definitely struggled to finish this, though. I found each story somewhat repetitive, and all 4 of the main characters were very similar.
I also did not enjoy the narrator. The voices she used for male characters were all the same and sounded silly. Her narration was ok, but was overdone.
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- Taylor G.
- 01-09-23
It was okay.
The first novella needed some serious volume control, when I listened to it I would have to constant turn the volume up and down bc the hush tones but also raised voices would be too loud in my ears. I understand they’re short stories but I felt like so many unfinished parts could’ve had a few more things to tie it together. Kind of felt pointless to read
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- Betsy Ross
- 12-10-22
All stories in collection
JCO is my all time favorite writer. Her prose is poetry. And this reader is exquisite , able to capture what I consider the essence of the "Oates-ien" experience.
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