May We Be Forgiven

De: A. M. Homes

Narrado por: Nathan Osgood

Harold Silver, a Richard Nixon Scholar, has spent a lifetime watching his younger, taller, and more successful brother, George. But Harry knows that George has a murderous temper, and when he finally loses control the result is an act of violence which hurls the two brothers into entirely new lives. A savage and dizzyingly inventive vision that penetrates the dark heart of contemporary America to tell a darkly comic tale of 21st-century domestic life and how one deeply fractured family might begin to put itself back together.

©2012 A. M. Homes (P)2012 W F Howes Ltd

Perfect comic timing

Would you consider the audio edition of May We Be Forgiven to be better than the print version?

I usually prefer reading, but in this case, the audiobook was just amazing.

Nathan Osgood has perfect comic timing, whether impersonating the insecure protagonist, his indifferent mother or his wise-beyond-his-age cousin.

A real man in a surrealistic situation

Any additional comments?

He asks for a lot of empathy, Harry, the protagonist of this book. He is the man you hate to love, just like his favorite politician, Richard Nixon is the man people love to hate.What happens, especially in the beginning of the storry is not an everyday story, but the author persuades us to believe it. Sometimes funny, sometimes moving, but always bizarre.

And just the right number of 'actors' to make it possible to follow the story by listening while walking.

Loved this book.

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes. The book is well written, well read and I really enjoyed listening to it.
The book is complex enough to appeal to literary types but is a good story too so is easy to listen to (or read presumably)
It seems to me perfect to listen to. It's my first audiobook for a while.

What did you like best about this story?

I liked the insight that it gave me into my own life and problems.

What does Nathan Osgood bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

I could listen to it in my car! Not sure if I would have read it otherwise.

Any additional comments?

A slight comment is that the female voices got slightly grating after a while (several hours of listening of course). Osgood is a man so not sure what he could have done about that.