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The Pisces
- Narrated by: Isabella Inchbald
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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Publisher's Summary
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
Profoundly modern, deeply disturbed and darkly comic, The Pisces is about heartbroken PhD student who over one summer falls in dangerous, ecstatic love with a merman.
Lucy, staying in a beautiful home overlooking Venice Beach, can find no peace from her misery - not in therapy, not in Tinder hookups, not in her sister's dog's unquestioning devotion, not in ruminating on the ancient Greeks. Yet everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer one night while sitting alone on the beach rocks....
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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- Julesy
- 07-10-18
Disappointing
I struggled with the protagonist as I found her irresponsible and completely self absorbed. Her lack of care for the animal in her charge was disturbing. I felt more for the dog than I did for her.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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- Tamarah Lamb
- 10-09-20
Not too sure...
This book was...interesting. In chapter 12 the dialogue is tedious as there was a repetition of two words to move the conversation along, said and asked. Maybe it wouldn't have gotten on my nerves too much if I had read the book, rather than listened to it. There are more descriptive words to use in the English language than repeating said and asked after every other snippet of dialogue.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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- L.J
- 08-27-19
Funny and insightful in an eerie fascinating way
Maybe a bit disturbing at times and with more graphic sex than is needed, but still the best read of my summer.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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Story1 out of 5 stars
- Lydia Kelly
- 05-15-19
just bad
really didn't enjoy this. strange mix of graphic sex and internal stream of consciousness thoughts, magical realism and Greek myth metaphors.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story2 out of 5 stars
- p.m.
- 03-17-19
unusual book
an unusual book which I didn't particularly like as the protagonist is unlikeable, coarse, cynical and tragic. however it does shed light on the dependency of women on men and how incredibly insecure they are. the story arc with Theo is clever , though in itself really weird
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- JHA
- 03-11-19
Best performance of the year
Well performed. Many accents helped distinguish the characters voices. I will look for other work by this reader. Main character is angry and depressed and occasionally unlikable but her honesty allowed me to like her enough to want to keep reading her story. I liked the ending.