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5 out of 5 stars
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Flights
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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Book of Disquiet
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- Narrated by: Adam Sims
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Assembled from notes and jottings left unpublished at the time of the author’s death, The Book of Disquiet is a collection of aphoristic prose-poetry musings on dreams, solitude, time and memory. Credited to Pessoa’s alter ego, Bernardo Soares, who chronicles his contemplations in this so-called "factless" autobiography, the work is a journey of one man’s soul and, by extension, of all human souls that allow their minds and hearts to roam far and free.
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- By: Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft - translator
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 85
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Story4 out of 5 stars 75
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4 out of 5 stars
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 7
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- By: James Joyce
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This quintessential coming-of-age novel describes the early life of Stephen Dedalus. It is set in Ireland during the 19th century, which was a time of emerging Irish nationalism and conservative Catholicism. Highly autobiographical in nature, the work is also notable for its being the first one in which Joyce uses innovative “stream of consciousness” writing style. A Portrait... follows Stephen Dedalus from his babyhood into early adulthood.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bitterly disappointed
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The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
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- Unabridged
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The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating the ghosts of the past and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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RIP Denis Johnson
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- By: W. G. Sebald
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The four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an elementary-school teacher, and Great Uncle Ambrose. Following (literally) in their footsteps, the narrator retraces routes of exile which lead from Lithuania to London, from Munich to Manchester, from the South German provinces to Switzerland, France, New York, Constantinople, and Jerusalem.
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Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate; she works an easy job at a hip art gallery and lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?
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Collected Fictions
- By: Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (translator)
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4 out of 5 stars
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- By: Virginia Woolf
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First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era - including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall - through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central example of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton ( Annie Hall, The Family Stone) performs these classic essays, including the title piece, which will transport the listener back to a unique time and place: the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the neighborhood’s heyday as a countercultural center.
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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the GREAT war memoirs of ALL TIME!
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In these 11 stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien - and through it, find a way to liberation. The Lonesome Bodybuilder is the English-language debut of one of Japan's most fearlessly inventive young writers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting.
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Originally distributed as a self-published booklet, A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud quickly established him to be the "first punk" and a visonary mentor to the Beat poets for both his recklessness and fiery poetry according to famous poet of the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Better than I thought!
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 33
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At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as solemn and mysterious as a pond at midnight, Deborah Eisenberg’s stories gently compel us to confront the most disturbing truths about ourselves - from our intimate lives as lovers, parents, and children, to our equally troubling roles as citizens on a violent, terrifying planet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dazzling
- By Terry Pirate on 10-15-18
Publisher's Summary
This new translation of Clarice Lispector's sensational first book tells the story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through an unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence.
Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called "Hurricane Clarice": a 23-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce - "He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart of life."
The book was an unprecedented sensation - the discovery of a genius. Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue frame the life of Joana, from her middle-class childhood through her unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence, when she proclaims, "I shall arise as strong and comely as a young colt."
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- Gordy
- 04-11-18
AMAZING!
Narrator did a great job with this work.Holy smokes, I want more of this.
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- Debra Hartrum
- 01-25-18
Masterpiece
Clarice Lispector is insane and wonderful, and Rebecca Morris is a great new talent. Hope to hear new book by her soon!
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-25-18
I love this book and the audio is great
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Such a wonderful book from Clarice Lispector. Rebecca Morris sound amazing. More books by this narrator please!
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- Listener
- 01-06-18
Spectacular
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Love it! So awesome to finally hear Lispector in audio form. the Narrator did a wonderful job as well. *****
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- Wendy X.
- 06-12-18
Mental Onanism
Word salad about a young woman coming to believe literally that her solipsistic viewpoint is real. She waxes ecstatic describing the difference between things that exist, as opposed to things that just are. Didn't do anything for me.
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- Dave
- 01-25-18
Enchanting!
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I would highly recommend this. Very excited to see Lispector's work finally being done in audio format. The narrator did a wonderful job with the text.