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Narrado por:
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Norbert Leo Butz
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Heather Lind
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Vincent Piazza
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Jennifer Egan
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The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly 12 years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children, and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles.
Years later her father has disappeared, and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career as a Ziegfield folly, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a nightclub she chances to meet Styles, the man she visited with her father before he vanished, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have been murdered.
Mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime, the merchant marine, and the clash of classes in New York, Egan's first historical novel is a masterpiece, a deft, startling, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men, America, and the world. Manhattan Beach is a magnificent novel by one of the greatest writers of our time.
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Reseñas editoriales
Editors Select, October 2017
In contrast to her Pulitzer Prize-winning and very modern A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan's Manhattan Beach is traditional historical fiction in every way. Obviously impeccably researched, it's a sweeping novel steeped in the atmosphere of NYC, in particular the seaport neighborhoods of Brooklyn, from the Great Depression to WWII. Adding to Egan's brilliantly descriptive prose are the outstanding performances by narrators Norbert Leo Butz (two-time Tony Award winner), Heather Lind (TURN: Washington's Spies), and Vincent Piazza (Jersey Boys, Boardwalk Empire). This trio ups the ante, so to speak, making listening a truly immersive experience. —Tricia, Audible Editor
Editor's Pick
A WWII women diver in Brooklyn…multi-voiced.
"The novelist Jennifer Egan started out as a journalist, and at some point in the mid-90s—before she wrote and won the Pulitzer for A Visit from the Goon Squad in 2011—she became fascinated by the stories of women divers in WWII. Manhattan Beach is the fictional life of Anna Kerrigan—with all the historical detail and family drama a great novel can encompass. The three narrators who alternate chapters make the performance even richer."
—Christina H., Audible Editor
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These 11 masterful stories - the first collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan - deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan’s characters - models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls - are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their own transformations.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Awful narrator
- De carrieann en 10-12-19
De: Jennifer Egan
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Modern Lovers
- De: Emma Straub
- Narrado por: Jen Tullock
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,067
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 935
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 935
From the author of the New York Times best sellers All Adults Here and This Time Tomorrow, a smart, highly entertaining novel about a tight-knit group of friends from college - and what it means to finally grow up, well after adulthood has set in. Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry, buy real estate, and start businesses and families, all while trying to hold on to the identities of their youth. But nothing ages them like having to suddenly pass the torch to their own offspring.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable!
- De G en 06-10-16
De: Emma Straub
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The Keep
- De: Jennifer Egan
- Narrado por: Jeff Gurner, Geneva Carr
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 882
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 740
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 735
Two cousins, devastated by a childhood prank, reunite 20 years later to renovate a castle in Eastern Europe. The fortress has a bloody history that stretches back hundreds of years. Amid extreme paranoia and eerie silence, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Utterly disappointing.
- De J. Lee en 04-01-19
De: Jennifer Egan
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
- De: Jennifer Egan
- Narrado por: Roxana Ortega
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,316
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,133
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,130
Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the listener does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deep and dazzling novel, brilliantly read!
- De J. W. Coop en 06-29-19
De: Jennifer Egan
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Look at Me
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Egan
- Narrado por: Rachael Warren
- Duración: 20 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 189
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 188
At the start of this edgy and ambitiously multilayered novel - a National Book Award Finalist - a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes 80 titanium screws to reassemble it. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable. With the surreal authority of a David Lynch, Jennifer Egan threads Charlotte’s narrative with those of other casualties of our infatuation with the image.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good story, horrible narrator.
- De Denise en 09-19-12
De: Jennifer Egan
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The Invisible Circus
- De: Jennifer Egan
- Narrado por: Madeleine Lambert
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 400
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 354
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 354
In Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O'Connor, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across Europe, a quest which yields both complex and disturbing revelations about family, love, and Faith's lost generation.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Too bad zero was not a choice...
- De IVAL en 04-28-13
De: Jennifer Egan
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Emerald City
- De: Jennifer Egan
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston, Madeleine Lambert, Richard Waterhouse
- Duración: 5 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 153
These 11 masterful stories - the first collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan - deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan’s characters - models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls - are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their own transformations.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Awful narrator
- De carrieann en 10-12-19
De: Jennifer Egan
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Modern Lovers
- De: Emma Straub
- Narrado por: Jen Tullock
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,067
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 935
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 935
From the author of the New York Times best sellers All Adults Here and This Time Tomorrow, a smart, highly entertaining novel about a tight-knit group of friends from college - and what it means to finally grow up, well after adulthood has set in. Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry, buy real estate, and start businesses and families, all while trying to hold on to the identities of their youth. But nothing ages them like having to suddenly pass the torch to their own offspring.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable!
- De G en 06-10-16
De: Emma Straub
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Manhattan Beach
- De: Jennifer Egan
- Narrado por: Nina Kunzendorf
- Duración: 15 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General2.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:2.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia2.5 out of 5 stars 2
New York in den 40er Jahren - von den schillernden Nachtclubs in Manhattan zu der dröhnenden Marinewerft in Brooklyn. Krieg liegt in der ölgetränkten, rauchigen Luft. Die Männer sind an der Front, nun stehen die Frauen in der Fabrik. Doch die junge Anna verfolgt beharrlich ihren Traum: Sie will Marinetaucherin werden. Mutig schwimmt sie gegen den Strom und taucht unter die gigantischen Kriegsschiffe an den Docks. Allein die Gedanken an ihren verschwundenen Vater vermögen es, sie in noch unbekanntere Tiefen zu ziehen.
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1 out of 5 stars
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In German
- De Amazon Customer en 10-19-18
De: Jennifer Egan
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This Other Eden
- De: Paul Harding
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 134
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 110
In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys’ descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated, and often hungry, but nevertheless protected from the hostility awaiting them on the mainland.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Painfully overwritten
- De WPH en 02-24-23
De: Paul Harding
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The Orchardist
- De: Amanda Coplin
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,706
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,490
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,485
At the turn of the 20th century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a reclusive orchardist, William Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the quiet, beating heart of the land he cultivates. One day, two teenage girls appear and steal his fruit from the market; they later return to the outskirts of his orchard to see the man who gave them no chase. Feral, scared, and very pregnant, the girls take up on Talmadge's land and indulge in his deep reservoir of compassion.
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2 out of 5 stars
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"Somebody tell a joke!"
- De Deborah en 10-29-12
De: Amanda Coplin
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Washington Black
- A Novel
- De: Esi Edugyan
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,839
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,538
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,520
Eleven-year-old George Washington Black—or Wash—a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master’s brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning, and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Now what do I do?
- De Mary L. Doyle en 10-04-18
De: Esi Edugyan
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Luckiest Girl Alive
- A Novel
- De: Jessica Knoll
- Narrado por: Madeleine Maby
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 9,731
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,511
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 8,521
As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, Ani FaNelli endured a shocking, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now, with a glamorous job, expensive wardrobe, and handsome blue blood fiancé, she’s this close to living the perfect life she’s worked so hard to achieve. But Ani has a secret. There’s something else buried in her past that still haunts her, something private and painful that threatens to bubble to the surface and destroy everything.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Strange, unnerving, confusing.
- De Candice en 12-06-15
De: Jessica Knoll
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Life After Life
- A Novel
- De: Kate Atkinson
- Narrado por: Fenella Woolgar
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,331
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,776
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,786
On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Strange & Fascinating
- De Sara en 11-02-15
De: Kate Atkinson
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Crossroads
- A Novel
- De: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrado por: David Pittu
- Duración: 24 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,669
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,384
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,385
Jonathan Franzen’s novels are celebrated for their unforgettably vivid characters and for their keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now, in Crossroads, Franzen ventures back into the past and explores the history of two generations. With characteristic humor and complexity, and with even greater warmth, he conjures a world that resonates powerfully with our own.
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4 out of 5 stars
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How do narrators still do clownish stuff like this in 2021?
- De Hotrodimus en 10-30-21
De: Jonathan Franzen
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Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- De: Hernan Diaz
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,632
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,632
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Before Purchasing
- De JLDLOfficial en 08-13-22
De: Hernan Diaz
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The Eights
- De: Joanna Miller
- Narrado por: Alix Dunmore
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 16
Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its one-thousand-year history, Oxford University officially admits female students. Burning with dreams of equality, four young women move into neighboring rooms in Corridor 8. Beatrice, Dora, Marianne, and Otto—collectively known as The Eights—come from all walks of life, each driven by their own motives, each holding tight to their secrets, and are thrown into an unlikely, unshakable friendship.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Characters including Oxford.
- De Margaret Hansen en 04-28-25
De: Joanna Miller
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel: Booktrack Edition
- De: Maria Semple
- Narrado por: Kathleen Wilhoite
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,005
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,000
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle - and people in general - has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands.
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4 out of 5 stars
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CANNOT STAND the narrator!
- De Matthew Brewster en 04-25-19
De: Maria Semple
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Matrix
- A Novel
- De: Lauren Groff
- Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,345
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,130
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,125
Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story well written and narratives
- De ReallyNelie en 09-25-21
De: Lauren Groff
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Trespasses
- A Novel
- De: Louise Kennedy
- Narrado por: Brid Brennan
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 217
Amid daily reports of violence, Cushla lives a quiet life with her mother in a small town near Belfast. By day she teaches at a parochial school; at night she fills in at her family’s pub. There she meets Michael Agnew, a barrister who’s made a name for himself defending IRA members. Against her better judgment—Michael is not only Protestant but older and married—Cushla lets herself get drawn in by him and his sophisticated world, and an affair ignites.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exquisite
- De Suzanna en 11-10-22
De: Louise Kennedy
Well written, but pointless.
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It brought me back to the streets of Brooklyn of my youth.
Loved it!
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meh
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Loved the texture of the characters in this book
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I got lost in this book...
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A story worth a read as well
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sad story about people in war time
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Just OK
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Book was good, even though a little slow at times.
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The readers did a wonderful job setting the tone for the characters.
Totally engaging!!
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