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A new novel of startling intelligence from prizewinning Australian author Michelle de Kretser, following a writer looking back on her young adulthood and grappling with what happens when life smashes through the boundaries of art
It's 1986, and "beautiful, radical ideas" are in the air. The narrator of Theory & Practice, a young woman originally from Sri Lanka, arrives in Melbourne for graduate school to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In the bohemian neighborhood of St. Kilda she meets artists, activists, students—and Kit. He claims to be in a "deconstructed relationship." They become lovers, and the narrator's feminism comes up against her jealousy. Meanwhile, an entry in Woolf's diary upends what the narrator knows about her literary idol, and throws her own work into disarray.
What happens when our desires run contrary to our beliefs? What should we do when the failings of revered figures come to light? Who is shamed when the truth is told? Michelle de Kretser's new novel offers a spellbinding meditation on the moral complexities that arise in the gap between our values and our lives.
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 15
Lion is about an unlikely parent, more legend than presence in his daughter's life. He is a charismatic, dashing bon-vivant, a polo player, race car driver, cocaine addict, ex-con, pilot, and sky-diver. Born in the aftershocks of Argentina's greatest earthquake, he is like a minor god who comes down to earth in a grand manner, falling in all the ways there are to fall.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding novel
- De Steven R. Weber en 04-03-25
De: Sonya Walger
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Universality
- A Novel
- De: Natasha Brown
- Narrado por: Norma Butikofer, Anushka Chakravarti, Clare Corbett, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 3
Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in the midst of an illegal rave, a young man is nearly bludgeoned to death with a solid gold bar. An ambitious young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic newspaper columnist, and a radical anarchist movement that has taken up residence on the farm. She solves the mystery, but her viral exposé raises more questions than it answers.
De: Natasha Brown
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Sons and Daughters
- A Novel
- De: Chaim Grade, Rose Waldman - translator, Adam Kirsch - introduction
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 28 h y 39 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Rabbi Sholem Shachne Katzenellenbogen’s world, the world of his forefathers, is crumbling before his eyes. And in his own home! His eldest, Bentzion, is off in Bialystok, studying to be a businessman; his daughter Bluma Rivtcha is in Vilna, at nursing school. For her older sister, Tilza, he at least managed to find a suitable young rabbi, but he can tell things are off between them. Naftali Hertz? Forget it; he’s been lost to a philosophy degree in Switzerland (and maybe even a goyish wife?). And now the rabbi’s youngest, Refael’ke, wants to run off to the Holy Land with the Zionists.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A mostly lost culture, partly preserved
- De Amazon Customer en 04-07-25
De: Chaim Grade, y otros
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Shoestring Theory
- De: Mariana Costa
- Narrado por: Philip Battley
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 2
The kingdom of Farsala is broken and black clouds hang heavy over the arid lands. Former grand-mage of the high court, Cyril Laverre, has spent the last decade hiding himself away in a hut by the sea, trying to catch fish for his cat familiar, Shoestring, and suppressing his guilt over the kingdom's ruin. For he played his part—for as the king, Eufrates Margrave, descended further into paranoia, violence, and madness, his grand-mage—and husband—Cyril didn't stop him.
De: Mariana Costa
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The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree
- De: India Hayford
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey, Laura Jennings, Zura Johnson
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Genevieve Charbonneau talks to ghosts and has a special relationship with rattlesnakes. In her travels, she’s wandered throughout the South, working in a Louisiana circus and as a hootchy kootch dancer in Texas. Now for the first time in a decade, she’s allowed her winding path to bring her to the site of her grandmother’s Arkansas farmhouse, a place hallowed in her memory. Disguised by years in exile and a name she found on a gravestone, Genevieve intends only to visit briefly and leave.
De: India Hayford
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Trauma Plot
- A Life
- De: Jamie Hood
- Narrado por: Jamie Hood
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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In the thick of lockdown, 2020, poet, critic, and memoirist Jamie Hood published her debut, how to be a good girl, an interrogation of modern femininity and the narratives of love, desire, and violence yoked to it. The Rumpus praised Hood’s “bold vulnerability,” and Vogue named it a Best Book of 2020. In Trauma Plot, Hood draws on disparate literary forms to tell the story that lurked in good girl’s margins—of three decades marred by sexual violence and the wreckage left behind.
De: Jamie Hood
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Don't Believe Him
- De: Monica Arya
- Narrado por: Kimberly Austin
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3
We had it all—a lake house, two kids, and twenty years of marriage. Except, our marriage was no longer exciting. We scheduled intimacy, ate meals in silence, and became strangers. Our kids went off to college, and we were now empty-nesters, trying to reconnect. But my husband, a psychology professor and thriller novelist, had other plans. Perhaps writing a fictional novel had him living in a false reality? Perhaps he was having a mid-life crisis? He didn't want to reconnect with me; he just wanted to replace me. Worst of all, the girl he was having an affair with was our son's girlfriend.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- De AJ Holmes en 04-05-25
De: Monica Arya
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Scary Monsters
- De: Michelle de Kretser
- Narrado por: Jessica Douglas-Henry, Ric Herbert
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4
Lili’s family migrated to Australia from Asia when she was a teenager. Now, in the 1980s, she’s teaching in the south of France. She makes friends, observes the treatment handed out to North African immigrants, and is creeped out by her downstairs neighbor. Lyle works for a sinister government department in near-future Australia. An Asian migrant, he fears repatriation. He’s also preoccupied with his ambitious wife, his wayward children, and his strong-minded mother. Islam has been banned, the air is smoky from a Permanent Fire Zone, and one pandemic has already run its course.
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Show Don't Tell
- Stories
- De: Curtis Sittenfeld
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch, Curtis Sittenfeld, George Newbern, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 45
In her second story collection, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels. In these dazzling stories, she conjures up characters so real that they seem like old friends, laying bare the moments when their long held beliefs are overturned.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Always a pleasure
- De joshua simons en 03-21-25
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The Life to Come
- A Novel
- De: Michelle de Kretser
- Narrado por: Shiromi Arserio
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4
Pippa is an Australian writer who longs for the success of her novelist teacher and eventually comes to fear that she "missed everything important." In Paris, Celeste tries to convince herself that her feelings for her married lover are reciprocated. Ash makes strategic use of his childhood in Sri Lanka, but blots out the memory of a tragedy from that time and can't commit to his trusting girlfriend, Cassie. Sri Lankan Christabel, who is generously offered a passage to Sydney by Bunty, an old acquaintance, endures her dull job and envisions a brighter future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An odd book
- De Eternal seeker en 12-05-18
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Death Takes Me
- A Novel
- De: Cristina Rivera Garza, Robin Myers - translator, Sarah Booker - translator
- Narrado por: Tony Chiroldes, Lee Osorio, Ines del Castillo, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General2 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia2.5 out of 5 stars 3
A professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a mutilated man in a dark alley and reports it to the police. When shown a crime scene photo, she finds a stark warning written in tiny print with coral nail polish on the brick wall beside the body: “Beware of me, my love / beware of the silent woman in the desert.”
De: Cristina Rivera Garza, y otros
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Luminous
- De: Silvia Park
- Narrado por: Eric Yang
- Duración: 13 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2
In a reunified Korea of the near future, the sun beats down on a junkyard filled with abandoned robots, broken down for parts. Eleven-year-old Ruijie sifts through the scraps, searching for a piece that might support her failing body. There among the piles of trash, something catches her eye: a robot boy—so lifelike and strange, unlike anything she’s ever seen before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant writing, mesmerizing story!
- De jc en 03-14-25
De: Silvia Park
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Tilt
- A Novel
- De: Emma Pattee
- Narrado por: Ariel Blake
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 43
Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon. With no way to reach her husband, no phone or money, and a city left in chaos, there’s nothing to do but walk.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Over enthusiastic, snarky narrator who can't...
- De NMwritergal en 03-27-25
De: Emma Pattee
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No Less Strange or Wonderful
- Essays in Curiosity
- De: A. Kendra Greene
- Narrado por: A. Kendra Greene
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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Celebrated author and artist A. Kendra Greene’s No Less Strange or Wonderful is a brilliant and generous meditation—on the complex wonder of being alive, on how to pay attention to even the tiniest (sometimes strangest) details that glitter with insight, whimsy, and deep humanity, if only we’d really look. In twenty-six sparkling essays, Greene is trying to make sense—of anything, really—but especially the things that matter most in life: love, connection, death, grief, the universe, meaning, nothingness, and everythingness.
De: A. Kendra Greene
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We Pretty Pieces of Flesh
- A Novel
- De: Colwill Brown
- Narrado por: Colwill Brown
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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“Ask anyone non-Northern, they’ll only know Donny as punchline of a joke or place they changed trains once ont way to London.” But Doncaster’s also the home of Rach, Shaz, and Kel, bezzies since childhood and Donny lasses through and through. Never mind that Rach is skeptical of Shaz’s bolder plots; or that Shaz, who comes from a rougher end of town, feels left behind when the others begin plotting a course to uni; or that Kel sometimes feels split in two trying to keep the peace―the girls are inseparable, their friendship as indestructible as they are.
De: Colwill Brown
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The Unwanted
- A Novel
- De: Boris Fishman
- Narrado por: Youssif Kamal
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Susanna, George, and their eight-year-old daughter, Dina, have been lucky, so far, in these four years since war broke out in their country. Even as their fellow "minority-sect" neighbors and classmates are murdered or imprisoned, George’s loyal work teaching "dominant-sect" literature has kept them fed and protected. But then the day comes: the university fires George—despite his years of collaboration, he is no longer safe. Left without money or allies, it is time for the family to run.
De: Boris Fishman
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The Float Test
- A Novel
- De: Lynn Steger Strong
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 1
The Kenner siblings are at odds. Jenn is a harried mom struggling under the weight of family obligations. Fred is a novelist who can’t write, maybe because she’s lost faith in storytelling itself. Jude is a recovering corporate lawyer with her own story to tell, and a grudge against her former favorite sister, Fred. George, the baby, is estranged from his wife and harboring both a secret about his former employer and an ill-advised crush on one of his sisters’ friends. Gathered after a major loss, each sibling needs the others more than ever—if only they could trust each other.