And Go Like This

Stories

By: John Crowley

Narrated by: Graham Rowat

Listening to John Crowley's stories is to see almost-familiar lives running parallel to our own, secret histories that never quite happened, memories that might be real or might be invented. In the 13 stories collected here, Crowley sets his imagination free to roam from a 20th-century Shakespeare festival to spring break at a future Yale in his Edgar Award-winning story "Spring Break". And in the previously unpublished "Anosognosia", the world brought about by one John C.'s high-school accident may or may not exist.

©2019 John Crowley (P)2020 Tantor

Terrible reader

John Crowley is one of my favorite authors, but I couldn’t listen to more than a couple stories as this reader is terrible! He sounds like Vizzini from the Princess Bride or a 1920s newscaster. It makes it impossible to take the characters or plot seriously. Crowley is a sensitive writer and a sensitive reader himself. I wish he would re-record these reading them himself.

narrator ruins

How can anyone be expected to listen for long for long to this dreadful narrator barking like an anxious seal? It absolutely ruins whatever story might be there, so the listener can't even access any story, much less imagine a setting it have any idea who a character might be. Crowley is usually deliciously atmospheric with his use of descriptive language, both esoteric and cozy, but with this terrible narration, Crowley's voice is quite lost. How sad...