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“Remarkable. . . . The power and strangeness and piercing beauty of [The Sea is] a wonder.” —The Washington Post Book World
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This novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men’s clothing emporium. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife, Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the thin, awkward, myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle’s condescension in his aunt’s bed.
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A non-Euclidean German love triangle.
- De Darwin8u en 04-01-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Life Class
- De: Pat Barker
- Narrado por: Russell Boulter
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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In the spring of 1914, a group of young students gather in an art studio for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are two components of a love triangle, and at the outset of the war, they turn to each other. After volunteering for the Red Cross, Paul must confront the fact that life, love, and art will never be the same for him.
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In Love and War
- De Cariola en 07-28-09
De: Pat Barker
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Lionel Asbo
- State of England
- De: Martin Amis
- Narrado por: Alex Jennings
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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Lionel Asbo, a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug (self-named after England's notorious "Anti-Social Behaviour Order"), has always looked out for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Desmond Pepperdine. He provides him with fatherly career advice (always carry a knife, for example) and is determined they should share the joys of pit bulls (fed with lots of Tabasco sauce), Internet porn, and all manner of more serious criminality. Des, on the other hand, desires nothing more than books to read and a girl to love .
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Jēz...us! Just don't buy it for your Grans.
- De Darwin8u en 01-03-13
De: Martin Amis
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Fludd
- A Novel
- De: Hilary Mantel
- Narrado por: Gordon Griffin
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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One dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named Fludd mysteriously turns up in the dismal village of Fetherhoughton. He is the curate sent by the bishop to assist Father Angwin - or is he? In the most unlikely of places, a superstitious town that understands little of romance or sentimentality, where bad blood between neighbors is ancient and impenetrable, miracles begin to bloom. Fludd becomes lover, gravedigger, and savior, transforming his dull office into a golden regency of decision, unashamed sensation, and unprecedented action.
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Small, tight irreverant novel that wryly inverts
- De Darwin8u en 07-21-13
De: Hilary Mantel
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The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
- De: Monique Roffey
- Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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A beautifully written, unforgettable novel of a troubled marriage, set against the lush landscape and political turmoil of Trinidad. Monique Roffey's Orange Prize-shortlisted novel is a gripping portrait of post-colonialism that stands among great works by Caribbean writers like Jamaica Kincaid and Andrea Levy. When George and Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad from England, George is immediately seduced by the beguiling island, while Sabine feels isolated, heat-fatigued, and ill-at-ease.
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Disappointing.
- De Crystal en 10-31-12
De: Monique Roffey
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The Swimming Pool Library
- De: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrado por: Samuel West
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
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This novel centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, who is searching for someone to write his biography.
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Strong stuff
- De Peregrine en 05-15-11
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Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English
- De: Natasha Solomons
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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At the start of World War II, Jack and Sadie Rosenblum flee Berlin for London with their baby daughter, Elizabeth. Upon arrival, Jack receives a pamphlet from the German Jewish Aid Committee on how to act like a proper Englishman. He follows it to the letter -Saville Row suits, the BBC, trips to Covent Garden, a Jaguar - and it works like a charm. The Rosenblums settle into a prosperous new life.
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Endearing
- De Emily en 09-09-11
De: Natasha Solomons
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The Distant Hours
- De: Kate Morton
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 22 h y 31 m
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Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother’s emotional distance masks an old secret.
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Right Mood At The Right Time
- De Simone en 11-13-12
De: Kate Morton
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A Golden Age
- A Novel
- De: Tahmima Anam
- Narrado por: Madhur Jaffrey
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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As young widow Rehana Haque awakes one March morning, she might be forgiven for feeling happy. Today she will throw a party for her son and daughter. In the garden of the house she has built, her roses are blooming, her children are almost grown, and beyond their doorstep, the city is buzzing with excitement after recent elections. Change is in the air.
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sad, poignant, thought-provoking, beautiful
- De Rio Delta Wild en 06-04-08
De: Tahmima Anam
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A Death in Kitchawank, and Other Stories
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: T. C. Boyle
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Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T. C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. Here are 14 new tales previously unpublished in book form. By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyle's stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. The stories here reflect his maturing themes.
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Mixed Bag
- De AuntGert en 09-22-20
De: T. C. Boyle
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Haunted
- David Ash Series, Book 1
- De: James Herbert
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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A ghostly twist. Three nights of terror at the house called Edbrook. Three nights in which David Ash, there to investigate a haunting, will be victim of horrifying games. Three nights in which he will face the blood-chilling enigma of his own past. Three hideous nights before Edbrook's dreadful secret will be revealed...And the true nightmare will begin.to the surface, tormenting him, refusing to let him rest. The memory of what he once had been.
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Wait For It-----Wait For It
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-09-13
De: James Herbert
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Ironskin
- De: Tina Connolly
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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Jane Eliot wears an iron mask. It's the only way to contain the fey curse that scars her cheek. The Great War is five years gone, but its scattered victims remain—the ironskin. When a carefully worded listing appears for a governess to assist with a “delicate situation”—a child born during the Great War—Jane is certain the child is fey-cursed, and that she can help.
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Light Fantasy With A Compelling Story
- De Jeff Jackson en 11-14-12
De: Tina Connolly
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Bride of the Rat God
- De: Barbara Hambly
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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It is 1923, and silent film reigns in Hollywood. Of all the starlets, none is more beloved than Chrysanda Flamande, a diva as brilliant as she is difficult to manage. Handling her falls to Norah, widow of Chrysanda’s dead brother. She has always done her job well, but she was never equipped to deal with murder. When a violent killing shocks Chrysanda’s entourage, and other weird happenings swiftly follow, Norah begins to suspect that some strange power is stalking the star. In Chinatown she receives warning that a curse has been placed on the actress as vengeance for wearing a sacred amulet in one of her films.
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fun mix of fantasy and 1920s Hollywood
- De Kindle Customer en 11-11-14
De: Barbara Hambly
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A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car—also borrowed—onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the drafty old house: the Godleys, descendants of the late, world-famous scientist Adam Godley, whose theory of existence threw the universe into chaos. And this mystery man, who has just completed a prison sentence, feels as if time has stopped, or was torn, or was opened in new and strange ways. He must now vie with the idiosyncratic Godley family, and with a woman from his past who comes bearing an unusual request.
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Impossible
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Is there any difference between memory and invention? That is the question that fuels this stunning novel, written with the depth of character, the clarifying lyricism, and the heart-wrenching humor that have marked all of John Banville's extraordinary works. And it is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave as he plumbs the memories of his first - and perhaps only - love (he, just 15, the woman more than twice his age, the mother of his best friend; the situation impossible, thrilling, devouring, and finally devastating).
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Gorgeous!
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The Big Sleep
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A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.
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Brilliant writer writes the most boring spy story
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Snow
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Don't read this is you have been sexually abused
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Eclipse
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Impossible
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Ancient Light
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Is there any difference between memory and invention? That is the question that fuels this stunning novel, written with the depth of character, the clarifying lyricism, and the heart-wrenching humor that have marked all of John Banville's extraordinary works. And it is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave as he plumbs the memories of his first - and perhaps only - love (he, just 15, the woman more than twice his age, the mother of his best friend; the situation impossible, thrilling, devouring, and finally devastating).
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The Big Sleep
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On a languid midsummer's day in the countryside, old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician, is dying. His family gathers at his bedside: his son, young Adam, struggling to maintain his marriage to a radiantly beautiful actress; his 19-year-old daughter, Petra, filled with voices and visions as she waits for the inevitable; their mother, Ursula, whose relations with the Godley children are strained at best; and Petra's "young man" - very likely more interested in the father than the daughter - who has arrived for a superbly ill-timed visit.
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family. even the gods seem to know about it.
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Doctor Copernicus
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Sixteenth-century Europe is teeming with change and controversy: wars are being waged by princes and bishops and the repercussions of Luther are being felt through a convulsing Germany. In a remote corner of Poland, a modest canon is practicing medicine and studying the heavens, preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe. In this astonishing work of historical imagination, John Banville offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence.
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Once the big house on an Irish estate, Birchwood has turned into a dilapidated family manor filled with memories and despair. One disaster succeeds another, until young Gabriel Godkin runs away to join a traveling circus and look for his long-lost twin sister. Soon he discovers that famine and unrest stalk the countryside, and Ireland is ruined too.
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Time Pieces
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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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‘loved it!
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The Blue Guitar
- A Novel
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, a new novel - at once trenchant, witty, and shattering - about the intricacies of artistic creation and theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another and to hold on to ourselves. Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating, our narrator, Oliver Otway Orme, is a painter of some renown and a petty thief who does not steal for profit and has never before been caught.
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Masterful
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Mrs. Osmond
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Isabel Archer is a young American woman swept off to Europe in the late 19th century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naïve girl's experience of the world. When Isabel comes into a large, unexpected inheritance, she is finagled into a marriage with the charming, penniless, and - as Isabel finds out too late - cruel and deceitful Gilbert Osmond, whose connection to a certain Madame Merle is suspiciously intimate.
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Clever Continuation of Henry James
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Sacred Hunger
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In this Booker Prize-winning work, Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son, who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew, who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny.
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Wise, Perceptive, Heart-breaking
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The Inheritance of Loss
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In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives an embittered old judge who wants to retire in peace when his orphaned granddaughter Sai arrives on his doorstep. The judge's chatty cook watches over her, but his thoughts are mostly with his son, Biju, hopscotching from one New York restaurant job to another, trying to stay a step ahead of the INS, forced to consider his country's place in the world. When a Nepalese insurgency in the mountains threatens Sai's new-sprung romance with her handsome Nepali tutor, they, too, are forced to confront their colliding interests.
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Ghosts
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a brilliantly haunting novel that forges an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace that suggests both The Tempest and his own acclaimed The Book of Evidence.
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True History of the Kelly Gang
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Ned Kelly's name resonates in Australia the same way the name Jesse James does in America. Was he a crusading folk hero or murderous horse thief and bank robber? Who was the real Ned Kelly? As the impoverished son of an Irish convict, Kelly was cheated, lied to, and abused by the English. Committed to fighting back against oppression, Kelly and his gang of outlaws eluded police for nearly two years.
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An 'adjectival' masterpiece of 'effing' prose.
- De Darwin8u en 05-21-12
De: Peter Carey
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The Gathering
- De: Anne Enright
- Narrado por: Terry Donnelly
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Regarded as one of her country's foremost voices, Irish author Anne Enright makes a fresh mark on a rich literary tradition. The Gathering is a deeply insightful family saga, steeped in secrets and intrigue, unfolding over three generations.
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Not For Everyone
- De Lori en 11-07-08
De: Anne Enright
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Last Orders
- De: Graham Swift
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble, Gigi Marceau Clarke, Jenny Sterlin, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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In a London Pub called The Coach and Horses, four men gather. Three of them have been friends for half a lifetime, having fought in the same war, drunk in the same pubs, and bet on the same horses. Now they have come together to deliver the ashes of a fifth man, Jack Dodds, to the sea. Their journey, which will take them deep into their collective and individual pasts, lies at the center of an astonishingly moving novel of friendship, memory, and fate.
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Don't hesitate
- De Robert en 03-23-06
De: Graham Swift
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Sea
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- Ian C Robertson
- 02-22-16
A Time to Live and to Die
Blanville captures so beautifully both the time to live (the coming of age, young love or lust) and the time to die (oneself, and to reflect on the death of loved ones) in the rightly acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize. It evoked in me so many of the times of my youth, many of them painful, embarrassing or both (like the misapprehended longings and misjudged romances) and put into perspective so many of the things that I saw my grandparents go through toward the end of their lives. The language is languid and precise; placed together like a purposefully created ceramic mural. And that language is old and new (the resonance of the frustrated swearing juxtaposed to the prose still echoes in my minds ear). Really lovely.
By comparison (and I know that I wade into deep water here), I find John Lee's reading challenging. I am not sure why that it. Perhaps the Celtic rasp doesn't suit my ear. But like "100 Years of Solitude", the cadence just didn't sympathetically meet my expectation, albeit Irish-like. Alas, there are so many Irish lilts that I just wasn't taken with this one. That doesn't mean that the performance was bad; just not as I expected.
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- Justin
- 12-05-11
The Snore
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
This story had too many tangential travels for my liking. It's like reading a review that suddenly... oh look a butterfly..
Have you listened to any of John Lee’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
No
Could you see The Sea being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
Nope
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- David
- 11-03-10
Let it flow over you
I had not heard of Banville before this. What is it about the Irish? The command of the language, the humour, pathos, gentility, insight was astounding. At the end I felt I had lost a friend! Beautifully read, this was a true pleasure. It was a gentle journey that could have gone on and on! I recommend this anyone with an interest in the human condition!
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- Diana Stuart Beidler
- 08-18-18
Engaging and colorful
Love his use of language. Sometimes I’m laughing out loud, other times musing on the sadness or crazy juxtapositions of life. Masterful use of language, and I loved the moving to different time frames in the telling of the story.
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- Knitchic
- 10-27-23
Masterfully engaging story and beautiful written
Having read all of the Quirk series books, I’m again rewarded with John Banville’s skillful command of language to write an engaging and poignant story. The narration was perfect to portray the main character’s life’s memories. I continue to seek this author’s books.
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- Jane
- 11-01-15
Dark beauty of depth and humanity
A beautiful evocation of memories past and present. A long poem of sorts. It rises and takes you, like the sea itself.
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- Boo
- 08-12-18
Thoughtfully poetic
Lovely concise descriptions of characters in a painterly style. The underlying tensions between them made each page excitng and necessary to read, revealing the unexplained in veiled glimpses. The performance voice was personal and responsive to every word bringing a strong reality to the story.
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- Jeb
- 09-03-16
Your Patience Will Be Rewarded
If thrills, chills, spills and suspense is what u seek, this listen is not for you. The pace is lugubrious, purposefully so as an old man alternately grieves for his dead wife and recalls his mean-spirited, joyless childhood. Once we understand where the author is going with his unreliable and, at times, reprehensible narrator, the mastery of this work is revealed. We may not like the narrator, yet we still care about what or might happen to him. The poetic prose might seem tedious at times, and the brogue a mite overdone, but again with masterful intent. And the end is well worth waiting for. Stick with it you'll be glad you did!
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- Sarah Przekwas
- 10-19-23
Banville and John Lee
A quiet memoir, more like a reverie. Of internet only to one of like mind. Thanks
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- dianamoore
- 09-04-06
the sea
I've been inside the heads of alot of old men lately; Mr Sammler's Planet,Gilead,The History of Love. I thought it was as good as these other novels. Without much real action or suspense, I was glad to journey with this old man to the end.
It was so beautifully written, insightful, humorous at times and just so human.
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