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Peter Brooke
About this listen
A new translation of George Simenon's taut, devastating psychological novel set in American suburbia. The inspiration for the new play by award-winning playwright David Hare.
'I had begun, God knows why, tearing a corner off of everyday truth, begun seeing myself in another kind of mirror, and now the whole of the old, more or less comfortable truth was falling to pieces.'
Confident and successful, New York advertising executive Ray Sanders takes what he wants from life. When he goes missing in a snowstorm in Connecticut one evening, his closest friend begins to reassess his loyalties, gambling with Ray's fate and his own future.
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9
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-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 9
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 9
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-
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- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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-
5 out of 5 stars
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- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 39
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Simenon, a genius. The blue room is psychological space.
- By Amazon Customer on 02-06-17
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-
The Snow Was Dirty
- By: Georges Simenon, Howard Curtis - Translator
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 40
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 31
'A brilliant new translation of Simenon's critically acclaimed masterpiece.' And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that look rotten, with black patches and embedded garbage...unable to cover the filth. Nineteen-year-old Frank - thug, thief, son of a brothel owner - gets by surprisingly well despite living in a city under military occupation, but a warm house and a full stomach are not enough to make him feel truly alive in such a climate of deceit and betrayal.
-
1 out of 5 stars
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An unnecessary story poorly narrated.
- By J-me on 12-30-19
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9
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1 out of 5 stars
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not a mystert. not even a good story.
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predecessor of Gone Girl
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