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Antic Hay
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 10-21-00
- Language: English
- Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Regular price: $20.97
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Publisher's Summary
Antic Hay, first published in 1923, is one of Aldous Huxley's earlier novels, and like them is primarily a 'novel of ideas' involving conversations which disclose viewpoints rather than establish characters; its polemical theme unfolds against the backdrop of London's post-war nihilistic Bohemia. This is Huxley at his biting, brilliant best -- a novel, loud with derisive laughter, which satirically scoffs at all conventional morality and at stuffy people everywhere -- a novel that's always charged with excitement.
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I listened to this whole book. I kept waiting for one character I could relate to or admire. I did not like it at all.
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