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Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award. Winner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award.
Forty years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines.
There are the posh parts of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises and the eerie bogs of Big Nothin' that the city really lives.
For years, the city has been in the cool grip of Logan Hartnett, the dapper godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang. But there's trouble in the air. They say his old nemesis is back in town; his trusted henchmen are getting ambitious; and his missus wants him to give it all up and go straight... And then there's his mother.
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St. Louis in 1880 is full of ghosts - mangled soldiers, tortured slaves, the innocent victims of war - and Jacob Tracy can see them all. Ever since Antietam, when he lay delirious among the dead and dying, Trace has been haunted by the country's restless spirits. The curse cost him his family, his calling to the church, and damn near his sanity. He stays out of ghost-populated cities as much as possible these days, guiding wagon trains west with his pragmatic and skeptical partner, Boz.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Supernatural meets old West.
- De Mbeasley en 01-16-16
De: Holly Messinger
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Sometimes a Great Notion
- De: Ken Kesey
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 30 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 871
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 755
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 747
A literary icon sometimes seen as a bridge between the Beat Generation and the hippies, Ken Kesey scored an unexpected hit with his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. His successful follow-up, Sometimes a Great Notion, was also transformed into a major motion picture, directed by and starring Paul Newman. Here, Oregon’s Stamper family does what it can to survive a bitter strike dividing their tiny logging community. And as tensions rise, delicate family bonds begin to fray and unravel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sometimes a Great Novel Pops up out of Nowhere
- De Mr. Eyuz en 06-07-19
De: Ken Kesey
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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 1,121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 967
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 956
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
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Madam
- A Novel of New Orleans
- De: Cari Lynn, Kellie Martin
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 100
New Orleans, 1900: Mary Deubler makes a meager living as an "alley whore". That all changes when bible-thumping Alderman Sidney Story forces the creation of a red-light district that’s mockingly dubbed "Storyville". Mary believes there’s no place for a lowly girl like her in the high-class bordellos of Storyville’s Basin Street, where Champagne flows and beautiful girls turn tricks in luxurious bedrooms. But with gumption, twists of fate, even a touch of Voodoo, Mary rises above her hopeless lot to become the notorious Madame Josie Arlington.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Oh no no no no no
- De Robin en 08-11-18
De: Cari Lynn, y otros
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Nowhere is a Place
- De: Bernice McFadden
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 334
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 297
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 303
Nothing can mend a broken heart quite like family. Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most important, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon. The incident has haunted Sherry, and it causes her to dig into her family's past. Like many family histories, it is fractured and stubbornly reluctant to reveal its secrets. But Sherry is determined to know the full story. In a few days' time, her extended family will gather for a reunion, and Sherry sets off across the country with her mother, Dumpling, to join them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Mother and Daughter Tear. It. Up.
- De Susie en 01-15-14
De: Bernice McFadden
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Bloody Jack
- De: L. A. Meyer
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,463
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,773
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,776
Life as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of 18th-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and respected sailor as the crew pursues pirates on the high seas. There's only one problem: Jacky is a girl. And she will have to use every bit of her spirit, wit, and courage to keep the crew from discovering her secret.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sometimes it clicks
- De Terry en 12-09-09
De: L. A. Meyer
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Other Voices, Other Rooms
- De: Truman Capote
- Narrado por: Cody Roberts
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 132
At the age of 12, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully's Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face - and heart - of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Capote’s coming of age story
- De Daniel Diffin en 11-08-23
De: Truman Capote
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Dreams and Shadows
- A Novel
- De: C. Robert Cargill
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 277
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 258
There is another world than our own - one no closer than a kiss and one no further than our nightmares - where all the stuff of which dreams are made is real and magic is just a step away. But once you see that world, you will never be the same. Dreams and Shadows takes us beyond this veil. Once bold explorers and youthful denizens of this magical realm, Ewan is now an Austin musician who just met his dream girl, and Colby, meanwhile, cannot escape the consequences of an innocent wish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Amazing Book
- De hermanous en 04-14-13
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The Iron Dragon's Daughter
- De: Michael Swanwick
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
- Duración: 14 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
Named a New York Times notable book of 1994, The Iron Dragon's Daughter tells the heartrending story of a changeling child who is kidnapped to a realm of malls and machines and enslaved in a vast, infernal factory. Ultimately, she escapes and attempts to educate herself about this alien world, while being tormented by visions of the life she was denied.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Inconsistent story and makes for a poor experience
- De Martin Smith en 07-10-15
De: Michael Swanwick
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Church of Marvels
- A Novel
- De: Leslie Parry
- Narrado por: Denice Stradling
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 114
New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If Dickens needed a NY location for a story..
- De Sandi from Oregon en 05-13-15
De: Leslie Parry
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The Reapers Are the Angels
- De: Alden Bell
- Narrado por: Tai Sammons
- Duración: 7 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 405
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 346
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 347
For 25 years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself and keeping her demons inside her heart. She can’t remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember an old man who took her in and the younger brother she cared for until the tragedy that set her off on her personal journey toward redemption.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Literary Limbo-ing
- De Mel en 04-25-13
De: Alden Bell
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Stations of the Tide
- De: Michael Swanwick
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 94
The Jubilee Tides will drown the continents of the planet Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as the once-in-two-centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophe threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, and shapechangers. From author Michael Swanwick—one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction—comes a masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hard to categorize, hard to put down
- De Robert L. en 03-25-12
De: Michael Swanwick
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The Incorruptibles
- De: John Hornor Jacobs
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 96
In the contested and unexplored territories at the edge of the Empire, a boat is making its laborious way up stream. Riding along the banks are the mercenaries hired to protect it - from raiders, bandits and, most of all, the stretchers, elf-like natives who kill any intruders into their territory. The mercenaries know this is dangerous, deadly work. But it is what they do. In the boat the drunk governor of the territories and his sons and daughters make merry. They believe that their status makes them untouchable.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great world, competent prose, messy story
- De Melanie en 03-31-16
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Low Town
- A Novel
- De: Daniel Polansky
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 330
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 300
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 299
Drug dealers, hustlers, brothels, dirty politics, corrupt cops...and sorcery. Welcome to Low Town. In the forgotten back alleys and flophouses that lie in the shadows of Rigus, the finest city of the Thirteen Lands, you will find Low Town. It is an ugly place, and its champion is an ugly man. Disgraced intelligence agent. Forgotten war hero. Independent drug dealer. After a fall from grace five years ago, a man known as the Warden leads a life of crime, addicted to cheap violence and expensive drugs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Noir and fantasy walk into a bar...
- De Reviews by L en 12-16-15
De: Daniel Polansky
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The Blue Guitar
- A Novel
- De: John Banville
- Narrado por: Gerry O'Brien
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 39
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, a new novel - at once trenchant, witty, and shattering - about the intricacies of artistic creation and theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another and to hold on to ourselves. Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating, our narrator, Oliver Otway Orme, is a painter of some renown and a petty thief who does not steal for profit and has never before been caught.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterful
- De Amazon customer en 11-25-15
De: John Banville
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Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter
- De: Brian P. Easton
- Narrado por: Basil Sands
- Duración: 15 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 235
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 234
It takes more than silver bullets to kill a werewolf. Sylvester James knows what it is to be haunted. His mother died giving birth to him and his father never let him forget it; until the night he was butchered by a werewolf - the night a full moon ruined his life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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exciting and scary
- De Tom en 04-21-16
De: Brian P. Easton
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The Blue Blazes
- De: Chuck Wendig
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 79
Meet Mookie Pearl. Criminal underworld? He runs in it. Supernatural underworld? He hunts in it. Nothing stops Mookie when he’s on the job. But when his daughter takes up arms and opposes him, something’s gotta give....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Was hesitant at first
- De Andrew en 07-23-13
De: Chuck Wendig
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Night Boat to Tangier
- A Novel
- De: Kevin Barry
- Narrado por: Kevin Barry
- Duración: 5 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 628
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 541
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 535
In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen - Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs - sit at night, none too patiently. It is October 23, 2018, and they are expecting Maurice's estranged daughter, Dilly, to either arrive on a boat coming from Tangier or depart on one heading there. This nocturnal vigil will initiate an extraordinary journey back in time to excavate their shared history of violence, romance, mutual betrayals, and serial exiles.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Two Spooky Guys Waiting…
- De David en 12-06-19
De: Kevin Barry
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Beatlebone
- De: Kevin Barry
- Narrado por: Kevin Barry
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 72
It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he bought nine years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching 40s, his inability to create, and his memories of his parents, he sets off to find calm in the comfortable silence of isolation. But when he puts himself in the hands of a shape-shifting driver full of Irish charm and dark whimsy, what ensues can only be termed a magical mystery tour.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Nooooo way
- De James en 11-17-15
De: Kevin Barry
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That Old Country Music
- Stories
- De: Kevin Barry
- Narrado por: Kevin Barry
- Duración: 3 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
With three novels and two short story collections published, Kevin Barry has steadily established his stature as one of the finest writers not just in Ireland but in the English language. All of his prodigious gifts of language, character, and setting in these 11 exquisite stories transport the listener to an Ireland both timeless and recognizably modern. Shot through with dark humor and the uncanny power of the primal and unchanging Irish landscape, the stories in That Old Country Music represent some of the finest fiction being written today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Breathtaking
- De ALLISON E REED en 01-20-21
De: Kevin Barry
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The Heart in Winter
- A Novel
- De: Kevin Barry
- Narrado por: Kevin Barry
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 95
October 1891. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city of Butte, Montana is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and ballad-maker of the town, but also a doper, a drinker, and a fearsome degenerate. Just as he feels his life is heading nowhere fast, Polly Gillespie arrives in town as the new bride of the extremely devout mine captain Long Anthony Harrington.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Road to nowhere
- De Glenda O'Rourke en 07-29-24
De: Kevin Barry
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Nora Webster: A Novel
- De: Colm Toibin
- Narrado por: Fiona Shaw
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 555
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 487
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 487
Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be drawn back into it. Wounded, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Contrived & Overreaching
- De Sara en 12-13-15
De: Colm Toibin
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Exciting Times
- A Novel
- De: Naoise Dolan
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 225
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 192
An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer. Ava, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children. Julian is a banker. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than "I like you a great deal".
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3 out of 5 stars
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It was ok...
- De zobo en 06-25-20
De: Naoise Dolan
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Night Boat to Tangier
- A Novel
- De: Kevin Barry
- Narrado por: Kevin Barry
- Duración: 5 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 628
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 541
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 535
In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen - Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs - sit at night, none too patiently. It is October 23, 2018, and they are expecting Maurice's estranged daughter, Dilly, to either arrive on a boat coming from Tangier or depart on one heading there. This nocturnal vigil will initiate an extraordinary journey back in time to excavate their shared history of violence, romance, mutual betrayals, and serial exiles.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Two Spooky Guys Waiting…
- De David en 12-06-19
De: Kevin Barry
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Beatlebone
- De: Kevin Barry
- Narrado por: Kevin Barry
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 72
It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he bought nine years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching 40s, his inability to create, and his memories of his parents, he sets off to find calm in the comfortable silence of isolation. But when he puts himself in the hands of a shape-shifting driver full of Irish charm and dark whimsy, what ensues can only be termed a magical mystery tour.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Nooooo way
- De James en 11-17-15
De: Kevin Barry
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That Old Country Music
- Stories
- De: Kevin Barry
- Narrado por: Kevin Barry
- Duración: 3 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
With three novels and two short story collections published, Kevin Barry has steadily established his stature as one of the finest writers not just in Ireland but in the English language. All of his prodigious gifts of language, character, and setting in these 11 exquisite stories transport the listener to an Ireland both timeless and recognizably modern. Shot through with dark humor and the uncanny power of the primal and unchanging Irish landscape, the stories in That Old Country Music represent some of the finest fiction being written today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Breathtaking
- De ALLISON E REED en 01-20-21
De: Kevin Barry
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The Heart in Winter
- A Novel
- De: Kevin Barry
- Narrado por: Kevin Barry
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 95
October 1891. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city of Butte, Montana is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and ballad-maker of the town, but also a doper, a drinker, and a fearsome degenerate. Just as he feels his life is heading nowhere fast, Polly Gillespie arrives in town as the new bride of the extremely devout mine captain Long Anthony Harrington.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Road to nowhere
- De Glenda O'Rourke en 07-29-24
De: Kevin Barry
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Nora Webster: A Novel
- De: Colm Toibin
- Narrado por: Fiona Shaw
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 555
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 487
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 487
Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be drawn back into it. Wounded, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Contrived & Overreaching
- De Sara en 12-13-15
De: Colm Toibin
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Exciting Times
- A Novel
- De: Naoise Dolan
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 225
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 192
An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer. Ava, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children. Julian is a banker. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than "I like you a great deal".
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3 out of 5 stars
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It was ok...
- De zobo en 06-25-20
De: Naoise Dolan
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Trilogy
- De: Jon Fosse, May Brit-Akerholot - translator
- Narrado por: Kåre Conradi
- Duración: 4 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
This is Jon Fosse’s critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice, resistance, crime, and redemption.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Meditative and engaging
- De Lynn Miller en 12-31-24
De: Jon Fosse, y otros
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Days Without End
- A Novel
- De: Sebastian Barry
- Narrado por: Aidan Kelly
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,250
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,042
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,036
Thomas McNulty, having fled the Great Famine in Ireland and now barely 17 years old, signs up for the US Army in the 1850s and with his brother in arms, John Cole, goes to fight in the Indian Wars - against the Sioux and the Yurok - and, ultimately, in the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, they find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in. Moving from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry's latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This is about love of two men
- De KEITH en 08-26-17
De: Sebastian Barry
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Solar Bones
- De: Mike McCormack
- Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Duración: 9 h
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 357
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 316
It is All Souls Day, and the spirit of Marcus Conway sits at his kitchen table and remembers. In flowing, relentless prose, Conway recalls his life in rural Ireland: as a boy and man, father, husband, citizen. His ruminations move from childhood memories of his father's deftness with machines to his own work as a civil engineer, from transformations in the local economy to the tidal wave of global financial collapse. Conway's thoughts go still further, outward to the vast systems of time and history that hold us all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life
- De Nicole Del Sesto en 09-19-17
De: Mike McCormack
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Young Skins
- Stories
- De: Colin Barrett
- Narrado por: Jack Reynolds
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10
Enter the small, rural town of Glanbeigh - a place whose fate took a downturn with the Celtic Tiger. It's a desolate spot where buffoonery and tension simmer and erupt, and booze-sodden boredom fills the corners of every pub and nightclub. Here, and in the towns beyond, the young live hard and wear the scars.
De: Colin Barrett
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A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
- A Novel
- De: Eimear McBride
- Narrado por: Eimear McBride
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 77
In scathing, furious, unforgettable prose, Eimear McBride tells the story of a young girl's devastating adolescence as she and her brother, who suffers from a brain tumor, struggle for a semblance of normalcy in the shadow of sexual abuse, denial, and chaos at home. Plunging listeners inside the psyche of a girl isolated by her own dangerously confusing sexuality, pervading guilt, and unrelenting trauma, McBride's writing carries echoes of Joyce, O'Brien, and Woolf.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tough, disturbing but a future classic?
- De TV en 05-22-16
De: Eimear McBride
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My Father's House
- Rome Escape Line, Book 1
- De: Joseph O'Connor
- Narrado por: Barry Barnes, Stephen Hogan, Barnaby Edwards, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 89
September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. Gestapo boss Obersturmbannführer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war’s outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City; at one fifth of a square mile, it's the world’s smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome. A small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest is drawn into deadly danger as they seek to help those seeking refuge.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interminable
- De Stanner en 03-11-23
De: Joseph O'Connor
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A Ghost in the Throat
- De: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
- Narrado por: Siobhán McSweeney
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 89
On discovering her murdered husband's body, an 18th-century Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament. Eibhlin Dubh Ni Chonaill's poem travels through the centuries, finding its way to a new mother who has narrowly avoided her own fatal tragedy. When she realizes that the literature dedicated to the poem reduces Eibhlin Dubh's life to flimsy sketches, she wants more: the details of the poet's girlhood and old age; her unique rages, joys, sorrows, and desires; the shape of her days and site of her final place of rest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating
- De Art Librarian en 12-19-21
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Nothing Special
- De: Nicole Flattery
- Narrado por: Becca Stewart
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 10
New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a run-down apartment with her alcoholic mother and her mother’s sometimes-boyfriend, Mikey. She is turned off by the petty girls at her high school, and the sleazy men she typically meets. When she drops out, she is presented with a job offer that will remake her world entirely: she is hired as a typist for the artist Andy Warhol.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring n tedious
- De Mairyann en 06-04-24
De: Nicole Flattery
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The Spinning Heart
- A Novel
- De: Donal Ryan
- Narrado por: Wayne Farrell
- Duración: 4 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 162
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 145
In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices, each struggling to tell their own kind of truth, a single authentic tale unfolds. The Spinning Heart speaks for contemporary Ireland like no other novel. Wry, vulnerable, all-too human, it captures the language and spirit of rural Ireland and with uncanny perception articulates the words and thoughts of a generation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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21 Distinct Voices Beautifully Crafted
- De Cariola en 03-19-14
De: Donal Ryan
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The Books of Jacob
- A Novel
- De: Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft - translator
- Narrado por: Allen Lewis Rickman, Gilli Messer
- Duración: 35 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 264
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 217
In the mid-18th century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Dense & Difficult But Rewarding
- De Nick O. en 02-28-22
De: Olga Tokarczuk, y otros
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The Safekeep
- De: Yael van der Wouden
- Narrado por: Stina Nielsen, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful. Unexpected.
- De cm en 01-15-25
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Klara and the Sun
- A Novel
- De: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrado por: Sura Siu
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 10,184
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,715
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 8,684
Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: What does it mean to love?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well Worth Having Waited For!
- De otherdeb en 03-04-21
De: Kazuo Ishiguro
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre City of Bohane
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Total3 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución4 out of 5 stars
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- Clay G.
- 03-01-22
I have no idea what happened in this story
I think maybe this would be a great book if a read it instead of listening to it or if I understood the dialect. As it is I have no idea of what happened at all. If I had to write a book report on this I would get an F- On the bright side the narrator was pleasant to listen to.
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- Josef Sikelianos
- 06-16-23
Second listen, still a favorite
This probably isn’t every persons cup of tea but it’s sound literature in my opinion. I don’t typically go in for anything sci-fi or fantasy but I do enjoy Kevin Barry so I set aside my genre preferences and found it rewarding. The guy basically creates an entire dialect…. Anyway I loved it!
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- Jane
- 01-29-21
Irish Darkness!
Great book. A little difficult to translate all the Irish slang, but the book is more about an overall feel. Loved it!
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- thomas
- 07-14-20
Glossary
Nice book, great reader. Lots of interesting Irish slang. I wish there was a glossary.
I enjoyed listening, mostly because of the reader and descriptions of people and places, but was a bit disappointed overall with the story.
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- JunkyardMessiah
- 08-13-19
Perfect.
Tight story, lush language and a just as much (if not more) of a pleasure to listen to the author as to read his work. Pure outrageous love and sorrow. Rash revenge, delicious decadence and slow slides into madness and melancholy. And oh does this language linger. Bravo performance!
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- Kevin Sites
- 04-09-21
Dripping in Irish Gothic, you check me?
Kevin Barry powers a narrative with description so arresting you’d think you were watching a Cirque de Soleil show rather than listening to an audio book. A genius of color and mood.
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- MarkotheBeast
- 11-18-23
The Irish Cormac McCarthy has risen
Good heavens the language of this black-hearted book is spectacular. Ornate. Mysterious. Downright runic. A terrifying thrill ride through the collapse of humanity as a sentient species. Best thing I’ve read this year.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-30-20
beautifully written but difficult to follow
I did not enjoy the plot/story.
difficult to finish
I would not recommend
beautiful description of characters clothes
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