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The Victim
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 01-27-12
- Language: English
- Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Regular price: $19.56
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In this unique noir masterpiece by the incomparable Saul Bellow, a young man is sucked into the mysterious, heat-filled vortex of New York City.
Asa Leventhal, a temporary bachelor with his wife away on a visit to her mother, attempts to find relief from a Gotham heat wave only to be accosted in the park by a down-at-the-heels stranger who accuses Leventhal of ruining his life. Unable to shake the stranger, Leventhal is led by his own self-doubts and suspicions into a nightmare of paranoia and fear.
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