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Historia4 out of 5 stars 42
The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native language and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write - a book very much like The Gift itself.
One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A complex and rich Künstlerroman
- De Darwin8u en 11-30-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Everywhere I Look
- De: Helen Garner
- Narrado por: Helen Garner
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Spanning 15 years of work, Everywhere I Look is an audiobook full of unexpected moments, sudden shafts of light, piercing intuition, flashes of anger and incidental humour. It takes us from backstage at the ballet to the trial of a woman for the murder of her newborn baby. It moves effortlessly from the significance of moving house to the pleasure of rereading Pride and Prejudice.
De: Helen Garner
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Flapper
- A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
- De: Joshua Zeitz
- Narrado por: Daniella Rabbani
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 77
Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920's puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for granted. Her newfound freedom heralded a radical change in American culture.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good Book, Poor Performance
- De redsrule1 en 03-16-14
De: Joshua Zeitz
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- De: Muriel Spark
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 355
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 276
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 274
In the classic work that launched a play, a movie, and a song, Muriel Spark tells the darkly intriguing story of an eccentric Edinburgh teacher and the intense relationship she develops with six of her students. The scandalously outspoken Miss Brodie makes big waves in the conservative Scottish school, preaching the value of art, passion, and daring.
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5 out of 5 stars
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creme de la creme
- De Kathleen en 01-04-08
De: Muriel Spark
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Daring
- My Passages - A Memoir
- De: Gail Sheehy
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Candid, insightful, and powerful, Daring: My Passages is the story of the unconventional life of a writer who dared - to walk New York City streets with hookers and pimps to expose violent prostitution; to march with civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland as British paratroopers opened fire; to seek out Egypt's president Anwar Sadat when he was targeted for death after making peace with Israel.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed unexpectedly
- De Corinne O'Rourke en 09-06-23
De: Gail Sheehy
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Mislaid
- A Novel
- De: Nell Zink
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 200
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 179
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 178
Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The couple are mismatched from the start - she's a lesbian, he's gay - but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son behind.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Misbegotten, mishandled, misfired novel
- De Julie W. Capell en 02-07-16
De: Nell Zink
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The Wife
- A Novel
- De: Meg Wolitzer
- Narrado por: Dawn Harvey
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 639
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 569
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 567
The moment Joan Castleman decides to leave her husband, they are 35,000 feet above the ocean on a flight to Helsinki. Joan's husband, Joseph, is one of America's preeminent novelists, about to receive a prestigious international award, and Joan, who has spent 40 years subjugating her own literary talents to fan the flames of his career, has finally decided to stop.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A bit of a downer
- De Jody Cox en 08-01-18
De: Meg Wolitzer
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Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
- De: John Irving
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 292
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 242
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 241
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs, including an account of Mr. Irving’s dinner with President Ronald Reagan at the White House. The longest of the memoirs, The Imaginary Girlfriend,” is the core of this collection.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unabridged?
- De K. Stiffler en 02-11-22
De: John Irving
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Distant Star
- De: Roberto Bolano
- Narrado por: Walter Krochmal
- Duración: 4 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship. The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions. For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet's regime.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Omg
- De Sierra en 08-03-16
De: Roberto Bolano
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Manhood for Amateurs
- The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: Michael Chabon
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 238
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 147
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 147
As a devoted son, as a passionate husband, and above all as a father, Chabon's memories of childhood, of his parents' marriage and divorce, of moments of painful adolescent comedy and giddy encounters with the popular art and literature of his own youth, are like a theme played by the mad quartet of which he now finds himself co-conductor. At once dazzling, hilarious, and moving, Manhood for Amateurs is destined to become a classic.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible
- De Ken en 10-14-09
De: Michael Chabon
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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 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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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The Night Ocean
- De: Paul La Farge
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 117
Marina Willett, MD, has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H. P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the "old gent" lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow, at Barlow's family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends - or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he's solved the puzzle, a new scandal erupts, and he disappears.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Frustratingly Uneven Due to Clumsy Plot Structure
- De Adam en 06-15-17
De: Paul La Farge
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City Boy
- My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s
- De: Edmund White
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 67
In the New York of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses and parked trucks along the Hudson. This is the New York that Edmund White portrays in City Boy: a place of enormous intrigue and artistic tumult.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pretense upon pretense.
- De Shalin Desai en 06-01-15
De: Edmund White
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The Patriots
- A Novel
- De: Sana Krasikov
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren, George Guidall
- Duración: 22 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 77
Florence Fein grows up in Brooklyn in the 1930s, in a family that is gaining a foothold in the middle class. At City College she becomes engaged politically with the left-leaning student groups, and eventually, in the midst of the Depression, she takes a job with a trade organization that has a position for her in Moscow. There, she falls in love with another expatriate American and has a son. Soon after, Florence is sent to a work camp and her son to an orphanage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Point of View of characters, past and present collide
- De Angela Adams en 01-29-19
De: Sana Krasikov
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Flesh Wounds
- De: Richard Glover
- Narrado por: Richard Glover
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
A mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could really be his family...Richard Glover's favourite dinner-party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?' It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob who made up large swathes of her past and who ran away with Richard's English teacher, a Tolkien devotee, nudist and stuffed toy collector.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such a Meaningful Reflection
- De Awarenessing en 11-28-15
De: Richard Glover
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The Last Love Song
- A Biography of Joan Didion
- De: Tracy Daugherty
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 26 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, whom she met while the two were working in New York City, when Didion was at Vogue and Dunne was writing for Time. They became wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and cowrote screenplays and adaptations together. Didion is well known for her literary journalistic style in both fiction and nonfiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveted for 1591 miles
- De Kaysi12 en 04-11-16
De: Tracy Daugherty