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Simon Russell Beale
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Pat Barker
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The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy, and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize
The Ghost Road is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy. The time of the novel is the closing months of the most senselessly savage of modern conflicts. In France, millions of men engaged in brutal trench warfare are all "ghosts in the making." In England, psychologist William Rivers, with severe pangs of conscience, treats the mental casualties of the war to make them whole enough to fight again. One of these, Billy Prior, risen to the officer class from the working class, both courageous and sardonic, decides to return to France with his fellow officer, poet Wilfred Owen, to fight a war he no longer believes in. Meanwhile, Rivers, enfevered by influenza, returns in memory to his experience studying a South Pacific tribe whose ethos amounted to a culture of death. Across the gulf between his society and theirs, Rivers begins to form connections that cast new light on his—and our—understanding of war.
Combining poetic intensity with gritty realism, blending biting humor with tragic drama, moving toward a denouement as inevitable as it is devastating, The Ghost Road both encapsulates history and transcends it. It is a modern masterpiece
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A book to wade in, submerge into.
- De Darwin8u en 10-25-15
De: Peter Carey
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Border Crossing
- De: Pat Barker
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 11
As Tom Seymour walks with his wife along the river Tyne, they see a young man jump from the jetty into the freezing water. Instinctively, Tom rescues him. But his act saves the life of Danny Miller, whose past, as well as whose future, will come to haunt Tom.
De: Pat Barker
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Double Vision
- De: Pat Barker
- Narrado por: Johanna Ward
- Duración: 7 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 5
Double Vision follows Kate, a sculptor whose photojournalist husband is killed in Afghanistan, and Stephen, a journalist who, after covering September 11 with Kate's husband and then being betrayed by his wife, has determined to retire to a small town and write a book about violence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great!
- De Jill en 06-10-04
De: Pat Barker
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Life Class
- De: Pat Barker
- Narrado por: Russell Boulter
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 52
In the spring of 1914, a group of young students gather in an art studio for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are two components of a love triangle, and at the outset of the war, they turn to each other. After volunteering for the Red Cross, Paul must confront the fact that life, love, and art will never be the same for him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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In Love and War
- De Cariola en 07-28-09
De: Pat Barker
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The Silence of the Girls
- De: Pat Barker
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton, Michael Fox
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,568
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,297
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,285
The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, who continue to wage bloody war over a stolen woman - Helen. In the Greek camp, another woman watches and waits for the war's outcome: Briseis. She was queen of one of Troy's neighboring kingdoms until Achilles, Greece's greatest warrior, sacked her city and murdered her husband and brothers. Briseis becomes Achilles' concubine, a prize of battle, and must adjust quickly in order to survive a radically different life, as one of the many conquered women who serve the Greek army.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This Narrator Is A Spoken Word Goddess.
- De Texastential en 12-31-18
De: Pat Barker
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The Sense of an Ending
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 4 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 309
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 258
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour, and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He’s had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He’s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer’s letter is about to prove.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Andrew Lim en 06-14-21
De: Julian Barnes
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Paddy Clarke Ha-Ha-Ha
- De: Roddy Doyle
- Narrado por: Aiden Gillen
- Duración: 2 h y 50 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 63
Patrick Clarke is a 10-year-old boy trying to make sense of his world. He is confused. His Ma and Da fight too much. School seems like a joke. And love, though it has a good reputation, seems pretty cruel. Paddy sees everything, but has trouble understanding it all. His story is an exuberant romp through the triumphs, indignities, and troublemaking detours of an Irish childhood.
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3 out of 5 stars
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wrong order
- De Yuliya Melnyk en 01-31-16
De: Roddy Doyle
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Last Orders
- De: Graham Swift
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble, Gigi Marceau Clarke, Jenny Sterlin, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 128
In a London Pub called The Coach and Horses, four men gather. Three of them have been friends for half a lifetime, having fought in the same war, drunk in the same pubs, and bet on the same horses. Now they have come together to deliver the ashes of a fifth man, Jack Dodds, to the sea. Their journey, which will take them deep into their collective and individual pasts, lies at the center of an astonishingly moving novel of friendship, memory, and fate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don't hesitate
- De Robert en 03-23-06
De: Graham Swift
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The God of Small Things
- De: Arundhati Roy
- Narrado por: Sneha Mathan
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,749
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,445
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,441
Likened to the works of Faulkner and Dickens when it was first published 20 years ago, this extraordinarily accomplished debut novel is a brilliantly plotted story of forbidden love and piercing political drama, centered on the tragic decline of an Indian family in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India. Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, the twins Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worthy Booker winner!
- De Saman en 08-10-17
De: Arundhati Roy
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The Line of Beauty
- A Novel
- De: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrado por: Joe Jameson
- Duración: 17 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13
In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby—whom Nick had idolized at Oxford—and Catherine, who is highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect Prose
- De Andre en 03-13-25
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The Remains of the Day
- De: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,869
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,470
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,457
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and ever relevant
- De bbots en 07-04-20
De: Kazuo Ishiguro
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Prophet Song
- De: Paul Lynch
- Narrado por: Gerry O'Brien
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 714
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 622
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 621
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother of four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Painfully powerful Tale.
- De Tom en 01-30-24
De: Paul Lynch
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Wolf Hall
- De: Hilary Mantel
- Narrado por: Simon Slater
- Duración: 24 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,932
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,831
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,832
In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political powerEngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Divorced, beheaded, died...
- De Tim en 09-30-11
De: Hilary Mantel
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Milkman
- De: Anna Burns
- Narrado por: Bríd Brennan
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,995
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,779
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,775
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes "interesting" - the last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed, and to be noticed is dangerous. Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is a story of inaction with enormous consequences.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Like the writing, not the audio issues
- De Criticalthinker en 12-31-18
De: Anna Burns
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A Place of Greater Safety
- De: Hilary Mantel
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 33 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 294
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 257
It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden - and hugely but erotically ugly. Maximilien Robespierre, also a lawyer, is slight, diligent, and terrified of violence. His dearest friend, Camille Desmoulins, is a conspirator and pamphleteer of genius. A charming gadfly, erratic and untrustworthy, bisexual and beautiful, Camille is obsessed by one woman and engaged to marry another, her daughter.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disaster
- De Frank Dudley Berry Jr. en 08-01-13
De: Hilary Mantel
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All the King's Men
- De: Robert Penn Warren
- Narrado por: Michael Emerson
- Duración: 20 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,630
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,052
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,040
The fictionalized account of Louisiana's colorful and notorious governor, Huey Pierce Long, All the King's Men follows the startling rise and fall of Willie Stark, a country lawyer in the Deep South of the 1930s. Beset by political enemies, Stark seeks aid from his right-hand man Jack Burden, who will bear witness to the cataclysmic unfolding of this very American tragedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully presented
- De Cheimon en 10-12-08
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Gravity's Rainbow
- De: Thomas Pynchon, Frank Miller - cover design
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 37 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,128
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 974
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 963
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
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4 out of 5 stars
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"Time to touch the person next to you"
- De Jefferson en 07-04-16
De: Thomas Pynchon, y otros