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The Last Supper
- A Summer in Italy
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 76
From the novelist the New York Times compares to Paul Bowles, Evelyn Waugh, and Ian McEwan, an evocative new work of literary suspense. Adrift in Cambodia, Robert Grieve - pushing 30 and eager to sidestep a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher - decides to go AWOL. As he crosses the border from Thailand, he tests the threshold of a new future.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Graham Greene
- De Foxhuntingman en 02-26-16
De: Lawrence Osborne
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Sahara
- De: Michael Palin
- Narrado por: Michael Palin
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
Michael Palin is off again, this time to the seemingly desolate Sahara Desert. There's no easy way across, as he and his team discover on their most challenging expedition yet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful journey.
- De David en 05-22-05
De: Michael Palin
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The Art of Travel
- De: Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Nicholas Bell
- Duración: 5 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 155
Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why we should go and how we can become more fulfilled by doing so.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Dull, suggestions for better alternatives
- De J. Natael en 08-07-13
De: Alain de Botton
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Time Pieces
- A Dublin Memoir
- De: John Banville
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 4 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived, sometimes, in the city, John Banville's "quasi-memoir" is as layered, emotionally rich, witty, and unexpected as any of his novels. Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, Banville saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child, a birthday treat, the place where his beloved, eccentric aunt lived.
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5 out of 5 stars
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‘loved it!
- De SandyK en 02-24-24
De: John Banville
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All the Lives We Never Lived
- De: Anuradha Roy
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter, The Folded Earth, and An Atlas of Impossible Longing, a poignant and sweeping novel set in India during World War II and the present day about a son’s quest to uncover the truth about his mother....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful book
- De Sonia S. en 12-13-19
De: Anuradha Roy
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The Dark Flood Rises
- A Novel
- De: Dame Margaret Drabble
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 135
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 124
Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England. Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home-cooked dinners to her ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the sudden death of his girlfriend, and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a floodplain in the West Country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life Observed By An Exceptional Writer
- De Sara en 03-22-17
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The Story of Lucy Gault
- De: William Trevor
- Narrado por: Katherine Borowitz
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
The Story of Lucy Gault traces the repercussions of a child’s attempt to remain in her beloved home.Threatened with a move from Ireland to England, 9-year-old Lucy runs away, setting off a series of misunderstandings that will eventually touch each inhabitant of her village.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Most Heart warming read
- De Elizabeth K. Morse en 12-12-11
De: William Trevor
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Old Filth
- De: Jane Gardam
- Narrado por: Bill Wallace
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult and emotionally hollow childhood. Now an 80-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the regimen of work and the sentimental scaffolding that has sustained him throughout his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Literature at its finest!
- De M. Dyson en 07-29-23
De: Jane Gardam
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Full Circle
- A Pacific Journey with Michael Palin
- De: Michael Palin
- Narrado por: Michael Palin
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Following the hugely popular and successful Around the World in 80 Days and Pole to Pole, Michael Palin set off to meet another challenge: an anti-clockwise circumnavigation of the world's largest ocean, the Pacific.
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out of 5 stars
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Excellent, per usual
- De Enroute8 en 06-03-07
De: Michael Palin
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The Magus
- De: John Fowles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 26 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 900
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 795
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 804
John Fowles’s The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, and it continues to create tension and concern today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One of the best novels that I really think I hate.
- De Darwin8u en 01-29-14
De: John Fowles
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Netherland
- De: Joseph O'Neill
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 322
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 139
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 140
Alone and un-tethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country. Ramkissoon, a Gatsby-like figure who is part idealist and part operator, introduces Hans to an "other" New York populated by immigrants and strivers of every race and nationality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Get Your Post-Colonial Gatsby ON!
- De Darwin8u en 04-13-12
De: Joseph O'Neill
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Buddhaland Brooklyn
- A Novel
- De: Richard C. Morais
- Narrado por: Feodor Chin
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 63
Growing up in a quaint mountainside village in Japan, Seido Oda spent his boyhood fishing in clear mountainside streams and helping his parents run their small inn. At the age of 11, Oda is sent to study with the monks at a nearby Buddhist temple. This peaceful, quiet refuge in the remote mountains of Japan becomes home for the introverted monk - until he approaches his 40th birthday and is ordered by his superior to cross the ocean and open a temple in Brooklyn. Ripped from the isolated, serene life of his homeland temple, Oda receives a shock to his system in New York - a motley crew of American Buddhists with misguided practices.
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4 out of 5 stars
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engaging listen
- De connie en 07-25-12
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Come to the Edge
- A Memoir
- De: Christina Haag
- Narrado por: Christina Haag
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 93
When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep-school friends. A decade later, after they had both graduated from Brown University and were living in New York City, Christina and John were cast in an off-Broadway play together. It was then that John confessed his long-standing crush on her, and they embarked on a five-year love affair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thoroughly enjoyed Come to the Edge
- De CapeCodLady en 11-15-19
De: Christina Haag
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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 31 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 66
From Vladimir Nabokov, the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and the 1950s, these 68 tales — 14 of which have been translated into English for the first time - display all the shades of Nabokov’s imagination.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Kaleidoscope of Nabokov Bábochkas
- De Darwin8u en 01-11-15
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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The Keys to the Street
- De: Ruth Rendell
- Narrado por: Simon Russell Beale
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 79
Mary Jago had donated her own bone marrow to save the life of someone she didn’t know. And this generous act led directly to the bitter break-up of her affair with Alistair. For him, it was as though her beauty had been plundered. But the man whose life she had saved would change Mary’s life in a way she could never have imagined.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mystery with humor and insight
- De Ida Hagman en 10-02-12
De: Ruth Rendell
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Pale Fire
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor, Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 524
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 443
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 444
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed - according to Nabokov's fiction - by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazing feat for such a unique novel
- De AmazonCustomer en 03-27-12
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Aftermath
- On Marriage and Separation
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 4 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 11
In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk’s marriage of 10 years came to an end. Candid and revelatory, Aftermath chronicles the perilous journey as the author redefines herself and creates a new version of family life for her daughters. She discovers previously unknown strengths and freedoms, but also finds herself suddenly vulnerable to outsiders, unwelcome advice, social displacement, and the absence of a clear authority. The pressure to reconstruct a “normal” life for her daughters competes with the sense that nothing feels normal at all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant and searing
- De Hephaestus en 05-19-23
De: Rachel Cusk
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Second Place
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Kate Fleetwood
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 91
A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence itself becomes an enigma - and disrupts the calm of her secluded household. Second Place, Rachel Cusk’s electrifying new novel, is a study of female fate and male privilege, the geometries of human relationships, and the moral questions that animate our lives.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Description of child sex abuse
- De Karin Dicker en 06-01-21
De: Rachel Cusk
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The Bradshaw Variations
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Juanita McMahon
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5
Thomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable house, happy enough daughter, and an eerie sense that life might be happening elsewhere. Then Tonie accepts a big promotion at work and Thomas agrees to become a stay-at-home dad. While Thomas is suddenly faced with the daily silence of an empty house, Tonie finds herself alive to previously unimagined possibilities. And at the head of the family, the aging Bradshaw parents continue their marital dynamic of bickering and petty undermining.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant but tedious
- De Fred Ovrom en 12-14-21
De: Rachel Cusk
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Arlington Park
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Jilly Bond
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 5
Set over the course of one rainy day in an ordinary English suburb, Arlington Park is a viciously funny portrait of a group of young mothers, each bound to their families, each straining for some kind of independence: Juliet, enraged at the victory of men over women in family life; Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework; Solly, about to give birth to her fourth child; Maisie, struggling to accept provincial life; and Christine, the optimist and host of a dinner party where the neighbors come together.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Rachel cusk
- De David en 04-16-22
De: Rachel Cusk
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Coventry
- Essays
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 71
Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta (“Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There’s a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it’s called being sent to Coventry”), this collection is pure Cusk and essential listening for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This review is biased
- De Paul en 05-16-21
De: Rachel Cusk
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The Country Life
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Jenny Sterlin
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 36
When Stella leaves London for a small village in Sussex, she hopes that the country life will be conducive to her journey toward self-discovery. She'll have no more insipid lover, dead end job, or controlling parents to endure. But, as an au pair for a dispiriting family, she's stalked by bad-tempered people, misfortune from weather and wildlife, and unwelcome suitors. Spunky and resourceful, she manages to keep a stiff upper lip, even when her darkest secret manages to catch up with her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I loved this book!
- De Sharl Talan en 08-21-23
De: Rachel Cusk
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Aftermath
- On Marriage and Separation
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 4 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 11
In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk’s marriage of 10 years came to an end. Candid and revelatory, Aftermath chronicles the perilous journey as the author redefines herself and creates a new version of family life for her daughters. She discovers previously unknown strengths and freedoms, but also finds herself suddenly vulnerable to outsiders, unwelcome advice, social displacement, and the absence of a clear authority. The pressure to reconstruct a “normal” life for her daughters competes with the sense that nothing feels normal at all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant and searing
- De Hephaestus en 05-19-23
De: Rachel Cusk
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Second Place
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Kate Fleetwood
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 91
A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence itself becomes an enigma - and disrupts the calm of her secluded household. Second Place, Rachel Cusk’s electrifying new novel, is a study of female fate and male privilege, the geometries of human relationships, and the moral questions that animate our lives.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Description of child sex abuse
- De Karin Dicker en 06-01-21
De: Rachel Cusk
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The Bradshaw Variations
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Juanita McMahon
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5
Thomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable house, happy enough daughter, and an eerie sense that life might be happening elsewhere. Then Tonie accepts a big promotion at work and Thomas agrees to become a stay-at-home dad. While Thomas is suddenly faced with the daily silence of an empty house, Tonie finds herself alive to previously unimagined possibilities. And at the head of the family, the aging Bradshaw parents continue their marital dynamic of bickering and petty undermining.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant but tedious
- De Fred Ovrom en 12-14-21
De: Rachel Cusk
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Arlington Park
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Jilly Bond
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 5
Set over the course of one rainy day in an ordinary English suburb, Arlington Park is a viciously funny portrait of a group of young mothers, each bound to their families, each straining for some kind of independence: Juliet, enraged at the victory of men over women in family life; Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework; Solly, about to give birth to her fourth child; Maisie, struggling to accept provincial life; and Christine, the optimist and host of a dinner party where the neighbors come together.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Rachel cusk
- De David en 04-16-22
De: Rachel Cusk
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Coventry
- Essays
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 71
Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta (“Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There’s a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it’s called being sent to Coventry”), this collection is pure Cusk and essential listening for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This review is biased
- De Paul en 05-16-21
De: Rachel Cusk
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The Country Life
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Jenny Sterlin
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 36
When Stella leaves London for a small village in Sussex, she hopes that the country life will be conducive to her journey toward self-discovery. She'll have no more insipid lover, dead end job, or controlling parents to endure. But, as an au pair for a dispiriting family, she's stalked by bad-tempered people, misfortune from weather and wildlife, and unwelcome suitors. Spunky and resourceful, she manages to keep a stiff upper lip, even when her darkest secret manages to catch up with her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I loved this book!
- De Sharl Talan en 08-21-23
De: Rachel Cusk
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Parade
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Genevieve Gaunt
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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Midway through his life, the artist G begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings are a great success. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. Her attacker flees, but not before turning around to contemplate her victim, like an artist stepping back from a canvas. At the age of twenty-two, the painter G leaves home for a new life in another country, far from the disapproval of her parents. Her paintings attract the disapproval of the man she later marries.
De: Rachel Cusk
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Saving Agnes
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Alexandra Fuller
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 10
The story of a young British woman's first affair and entry into adulthood.
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1 out of 5 stars
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most boring book I've ever read.
- De Lee C. Bendig en 05-28-15
De: Rachel Cusk
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The Girls
- A Novel
- De: Emma Cline
- Narrado por: Cady McClain
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 4,035
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 3,534
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Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I'm not even through the first chapter
- De leelee8888 en 06-14-16
De: Emma Cline
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Death at La Fenice
- Commissario Brunetti Mysteries, Book 1
- De: Donna Leon
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 608
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 537
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 531
During intermission at the famed La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, a notoriously difficult and widely disliked German conductor is poisoned—and suspects abound. Guido Brunetti, a native Venetian, sets out to unravel the mystery behind the high-profile murder. To do so, he calls on his knowledge of Venice, its culture, and its dirty politics. Along the way, he finds the crime may have roots going back decades—and that revenge, corruption, and even Italian cuisine may play a role.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hercule Poirot in Venice...!!!
- De Emil Grancagnolo en 10-09-22
De: Donna Leon
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Martyr!
- A Novel
- De: Kaveh Akbar
- Narrado por: Arian Moayed
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 145
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 145
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful story
- De mamak en 01-27-24
De: Kaveh Akbar
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Burma Sahib
- A Novel
- De: Paul Theroux
- Narrado por: Charlie Anson
- Duración: 17 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would be trained for three years as a servant of the British Empire, overseeing the local policemen in Burma. Navigating the social, racial, and class politics of his fellow British at the same time as he learned the local languages and struggled to control his men would prove difficult enough. But doing all of this while grappling with his own self-worth, his sense that he was not cut out for this, is soon overwhelming for the young Blair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Glorious writing
- De Nina Jacobson en 02-21-24
De: Paul Theroux