The Line of Beauty
A Novel
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Bloomsbury presents The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst, read by Joe Jameson.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize
Named a Best Book of the Century by The New York Times Book Review
International Bestseller
From acclaimed author Alan Hollinghurst, a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money during four extraordinary years of change and tragedy.
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. His two vividly contrasting love affairs, one with a young black man who works as a clerk and one with a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to Nick as the desire for power and riches among his friends. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, this is a major work by one of our finest writers.
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In this award-winning Audible Studios production, Trevor Noah tells his wild coming-of-age tale during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa. It’s a story that begins with his mother throwing him from a moving van to save him from a potentially fatal dispute with gangsters, then follows the budding comedian’s path to self-discovery through episodes both poignant and comical.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book and perfect narration
- De MarilynArms en 12-15-16
De: Trevor Noah
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: James Franco
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
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Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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4 out of 5 stars
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Don't Quit Your Daytime Job, James
- De Keith en 11-20-15
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Stranded
- De: Chris Bruno, David Howard Lee, Shukri R. Abdi
- Narrado por: Taraji P. Henson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Blake Griffin, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 7 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,908
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,859
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,859
Separated by 10 years, 3,000 miles, and the unrelenting stresses of adulthood, best friends Janet and Serena plan a 40th birthday girls’ trip to reconnect. But after a massive crash, they’re the only survivors to wash ashore on an uncharted Caribbean Island. Armed with only the clothes on their backs and zero survival skills, they fight to overcome hunger, thirst, deadly wildlife—and most terrifyingly—decades of accrued resentment. Can they find their way home, or will they kill each other first?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Get ready to Laugh
- De Lasheree McFarlane en 11-08-24
De: Chris Bruno, y otros
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Mel & Sue: Should Know By Now
- De: Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins
- Narrado por: Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins
- Duración: 3 h y 30 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 8
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We all have things in our life that we should know by now, but don’t. Absences in our knowledge and skillset that are frankly shameful in an adult. Things that would be too embarrassing to ask anyone to explain – except our very best friend. Listen in as Mel and Sue tackle their ignorance head on, asking each other to explain something that they still don’t know - but absolutely, as adults, should - from how to parallel park to fully understanding bread (why has it got all those holes in it? What, honestly, is yeast?).
De: Mel Giedroyc, y otros
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The Best Man's Ghostwriter
- De: Matthew Starr
- Narrado por: Glen Powell, Nicholas Braun, Ashley Park, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 37 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,990
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,933
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,933
A bad best man’s speech can ruin a wedding. Why do we plan every detail of a perfect day and then give the groom’s idiot best friend five minutes of total power? Enter Nate (Glen Powell), a speechwriter-for-hire who helps people write incredible best man speeches. To keep the best man from embarrassing himself (and the newlyweds), Nate uses his list of don’ts: Don’t mention the exes, don’t be rated R, and don’t bum everyone out. Nate’s system never fails. That is, until he meets Dan (Nicholas Braun).
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5 out of 5 stars
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SO GOOD
- De Csutty en 09-23-24
De: Matthew Starr
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The Swimming Pool Library
- De: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrado por: Samuel West
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 312
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 240
This novel centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, who is searching for someone to write his biography.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Strong stuff
- De Peregrine en 05-15-11
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The Sparsholt Affair
- A novel
- De: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrado por: David Dawson
- Duración: 16 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 276
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 250
In 1940, David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford to study engineering, though his sights are set on joining the Royal Air Force. Handsome, athletic, charismatic, he is unaware of his effect on others - especially on Evert Dax, the lonely son of a celebrated novelist who is destined to become a writer himself. With the world at war, and the Blitz raging in London, Oxford nevertheless exists at a strange remove: a place of fleeting beauty - and secret liaisons. A friendship develops between these two young men that will have unexpected consequences as the novel unfolds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written book
- De J. Roose en 04-16-18
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Our Evenings
- A Novel
- De: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrado por: Prasanna Puwanarajah
- Duración: 16 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
Dave Win, the son of a Burmese man he’s never met and a British dressmaker, is thirteen years old when he gets a scholarship to a top boarding school. With the doors of elite English society cracked open for him, heady new possibilities emerge, even as Dave is exposed to the envy and viciousness of his wealthy classmates.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The writing, the pace.
- De Susan en 11-22-24
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The Stranger's Child
- De: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrado por: James Daniel Wilson
- Duración: 19 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 80
In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate—a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance—to his family’s modest home outside London for the weekend. George is enthralled by Cecil, and soon his sixteen-year-old sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by him and the stories he tells about Corley Court, the country estate he is heir to.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Left me feeling sad and disappointed
- De Kindle Customer en 11-28-11
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Veronica
- De: Mary Gaitskill
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 154
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 57
As a teenager on the streets of San Francisco, Alison is discovered by a photographer and swept into the world of fashion-modeling in Paris and Rome. When her career crashes and a love affair ends disastrously, she moves to New York City to build a new life. There she meets Veronica: an older wisecracking eccentric with her own ideas about style, a proofreader who comes to work with a personal "office kit" and a plaque that reads "Still Anal After All These Years".
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2 out of 5 stars
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Everything is baroque-en
- De Eric en 12-14-06
De: Mary Gaitskill
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Random Family
- Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
- De: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- Narrado por: Roxana Ortega
- Duración: 20 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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In her extraordinary best seller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses listeners in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour, gold-drenched drug dealers, and street-corner society. Focusing on two romances - Jessica's dizzying infatuation with a hugely successful young heroin dealer, Boy George; and Coco's first love with Jessica's little brother, Cesar - Random Family is the story of young people trying to outrun their destinies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Speechless
- De Amazon Customer en 09-02-19
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The Swimming Pool Library
- De: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrado por: Samuel West
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 312
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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This novel centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, who is searching for someone to write his biography.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Strong stuff
- De Peregrine en 05-15-11
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The Sparsholt Affair
- A novel
- De: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrado por: David Dawson
- Duración: 16 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 276
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 250
In 1940, David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford to study engineering, though his sights are set on joining the Royal Air Force. Handsome, athletic, charismatic, he is unaware of his effect on others - especially on Evert Dax, the lonely son of a celebrated novelist who is destined to become a writer himself. With the world at war, and the Blitz raging in London, Oxford nevertheless exists at a strange remove: a place of fleeting beauty - and secret liaisons. A friendship develops between these two young men that will have unexpected consequences as the novel unfolds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written book
- De J. Roose en 04-16-18
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Our Evenings
- A Novel
- De: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrado por: Prasanna Puwanarajah
- Duración: 16 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
Dave Win, the son of a Burmese man he’s never met and a British dressmaker, is thirteen years old when he gets a scholarship to a top boarding school. With the doors of elite English society cracked open for him, heady new possibilities emerge, even as Dave is exposed to the envy and viciousness of his wealthy classmates.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The writing, the pace.
- De Susan en 11-22-24
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The Stranger's Child
- De: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrado por: James Daniel Wilson
- Duración: 19 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 80
In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate—a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance—to his family’s modest home outside London for the weekend. George is enthralled by Cecil, and soon his sixteen-year-old sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by him and the stories he tells about Corley Court, the country estate he is heir to.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Left me feeling sad and disappointed
- De Kindle Customer en 11-28-11
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Veronica
- De: Mary Gaitskill
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 154
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 57
As a teenager on the streets of San Francisco, Alison is discovered by a photographer and swept into the world of fashion-modeling in Paris and Rome. When her career crashes and a love affair ends disastrously, she moves to New York City to build a new life. There she meets Veronica: an older wisecracking eccentric with her own ideas about style, a proofreader who comes to work with a personal "office kit" and a plaque that reads "Still Anal After All These Years".
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2 out of 5 stars
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Everything is baroque-en
- De Eric en 12-14-06
De: Mary Gaitskill
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Random Family
- Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
- De: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- Narrado por: Roxana Ortega
- Duración: 20 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 207
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 204
In her extraordinary best seller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses listeners in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour, gold-drenched drug dealers, and street-corner society. Focusing on two romances - Jessica's dizzying infatuation with a hugely successful young heroin dealer, Boy George; and Coco's first love with Jessica's little brother, Cesar - Random Family is the story of young people trying to outrun their destinies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Speechless
- De Amazon Customer en 09-02-19
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The Years
- De: Annie Ernaux
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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The Years is a personal narrative of the period of 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present - even projections into the future - photos, books, songs, radio, television, and decades of advertising and headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and written notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of the time, slogans, brands, and names for ever-proliferating objects are given a voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mixed Feelings
- De Elin VanD en 05-10-20
De: Annie Ernaux
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All Aunt Hagar's Children
- Selected Stories
- De: Edward P. Jones
- Narrado por: James Peter Francis
- Duración: 14 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Returning to the city that inspired his first prize-winning book, Lost in the City, Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the city's power brokers that most concern him but rather its ordinary citizens.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I JUST DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS!
- De Mimi Routh en 07-05-15
De: Edward P. Jones
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Austerlitz
- De: W. G. Sebald
- Narrado por: Richard Matthews
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 236
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 207
A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion.
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2 out of 5 stars
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To each their own
- De Sebastian Romero en 04-23-20
De: W. G. Sebald
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A Mercy
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 6 h y 26 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh north. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, "with the hands of a slave and the feet of a Portuguese lady." Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from a handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- De Pablo Tebas en 01-18-09
De: Toni Morrison
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The Charioteer
- De: Mary Renault
- Narrado por: Joe Jameson
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 257
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After surviving the Dunkirk retreat, Laurie Odell, a young homosexual, critically examines his unorthodox lifestyle and personal relationships, as he falls in love with a young conscientious objector and becomes involved with a circle of world-weary gay men.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Gay Classic!
- De Christopher en 02-05-16
De: Mary Renault
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How to Be Both
- A Novel
- De: Ali Smith
- Narrado por: John Banks
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 193
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 165
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Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths, and fictions. There’s a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. There’s the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real--and all life’s givens get given a second chance.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Incompetent Foreign Pronunciation
- De J. Kahn en 06-28-15
De: Ali Smith
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10:04
- De: Ben Lerner
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 219
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 186
In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child, despite his dating a rising star in the visual arts. In a New York of increasingly frequent super storms and political unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility of a literary afterlife, and the prospect of (unconventional) fatherhood in a city that might soon be under water.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A novel worth reading
- De Bradley Paul Valentine en 01-29-15
De: Ben Lerner
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The Savage Detectives
- A Novel
- De: Roberto Bolaño
- Narrado por: Eddie Lopez, Armando Durán
- Duración: 26 h y 57 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 338
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The late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño has been called the García Marquez of his generation. The Savage Detectives is a hilarious and sexy, meandering and melancholy, companionable and complicated road trip through Mexico City, Barcelona, Israel, Liberia, and finally the desert of northern Mexico. It is the first of Bolaño's two giant works, with 2666, to be translated into English and is already being hailed as a masterpiece.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bolaño Poetic Gyre
- De Darwin8u en 11-14-14
De: Roberto Bolaño
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The Loves of My Life
- A Sex Memoir
- De: Edmund White
- Narrado por: Joel Froomkin
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 9
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Written with White’s signature honesty, irreverence, and wit, The Loves of My Life is the culmination of a legend's life and work, a delightful and moving tour of over seventy years of being unabashedly gay and in love with love in all its forms.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Naughty
- De David S en 03-01-25
De: Edmund White
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The Lost Language of Cranes
- De: David Leavitt
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of 25-year-old Philip, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the first time with a man. Philip's parents are facing their own crisis: pressure from developers and the loss of their longtime home.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bildugsroman for a gay man
- De Marco en 03-30-14
De: David Leavitt
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The Farewell Symphony
- A Novel
- De: Edmund White
- Narrado por: George Backman
- Duración: 20 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one after another until only a single violin remains playing, this is the story of a man who has outlived most of his friends. Having reached the six-month anniversary of his lover's death, he embarks on a journey of remembrance that will recount his struggle to become a writer and his discovery of what it means to be a gay man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tremendous book
- De William Thomas en 11-26-18
De: Edmund White
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Gay New York
- Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
- De: George Chauncey
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead
- Duración: 18 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, George Chauncey constructs a fascinating portrait of a vibrant, cohesive gay world that is not supposed to have existed. Gay New York forever changed how we think about the history of gay life in New York City, and beyond.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Eye Opening History!
- De Nelson en 04-26-22
De: George Chauncey
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Line of Beauty
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- Andre
- 03-13-25
Perfect Prose
I enjoyed this for its perfect prose that engaged me. It is quite beautiful. The descriptions are cinematic. The story lagged a bit but the writing propelled the novel forward. I would read this author again.
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- ILAN COHEN
- 01-31-25
Absolutely Stunning
Delicate poetic like story that depict gay London coming of age - high society - politics and brilliant beauty in every sentence.
Loved loved loved
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