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Kathryn Harrison
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The Seal Wife tells the story of a young scientist and his consuming love for a woman known as Aleut. In 1915, Bigelow is sent to establish a weather observatory in Anchorage, Alaska, and finds that nothing has prepared him for the loneliness of a railroad town of over 2,000 men and only a handful of women, of winter nights 20 long. And nothing can protect him from obsession - both with a woman, who seems in her silence and mystery to possess the power to destroy his life forever, and with the weather kite he designs to fly higher than any kite has ever flown before, a kite with which Bigelow plans to penetrate and know not just the sky but the heavens.
A novel of passions both dangerous and generative, The Seal Wife explores the nature of desire and its ability to propel an individual beyond himself and outside conventions. Harrison brilliantly re-creates the Alaskan frontier during the period of the first World War and in lyrical prose explores the interior landscape of the psyche and human emotions - a landscape eerily continuous with the splendor and terror of the frozen frontier, the storms that blow over the earth and its face.
©2004 Kathryn Harrison (P)2004 Brilliance Audio, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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- De Jeff Lacy en 10-29-19
De: Daisy Johnson
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The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
- De: Tiffany Baker
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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Truly Plaice, an overly large and ungainly girl, is the polar opposite of her sister, Serena Jane, the epitome of feminine perfection. With their parents dead, Truly and Serena Jane are separated: Serena Jane to live a life of privilege as the future May Queen and Truly to live on the outskirts of town, the subject of constant abuse and humiliation.
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- De Victoria en 02-25-09
De: Tiffany Baker
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Her Body and Other Parties
- Stories
- De: Carmen Maria Machado
- Narrado por: Amy Landon
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
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Beautiful
- De Anonymous User en 11-17-17
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The Underground River
- A Novel
- De: Martha Conway
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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It's 1838, and May Bedloe works as a seamstress for her cousin, the famous actress Comfort Vertue - until their steamboat sinks on the Ohio River. Though they both survive, both must find new employment. Comfort is hired to give lectures by noted abolitionist Flora Howard, and May finds work on a small flatboat, Hugo and Helena's Floating Theatre, as it cruises the border between the northern states and the southern slave-holding states.
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Excellent historical fiction audiobook
- De LindaJS en 10-03-17
De: Martha Conway
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I Will Send Rain
- A Novel
- De: Rae Meadows
- Narrado por: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, and in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934, and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma, is struggling as the earliest storms of the Dust Bowl descend. The wheat harvests are drying out, and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains.
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While I really disliked this book...
- De NMwritergal en 08-17-16
De: Rae Meadows
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The Boat Runner
- A Novel
- De: Devin Murphy
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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Beginning in the summer of 1939, 14-year-old Jacob Koopman and his older brother, Edwin, enjoy lives of prosperity and quiet contentment. Many of the residents in their small Dutch town have some connection to the Koopman lightbulb factory, and the locals hold the family in high esteem. On days when they aren't playing with friends, Jacob and Edwin help their uncle Martin on his fishing boat in the North Sea, where German ships have become a common sight. When war breaks out, Jacob's world is thrown into chaos.
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Not a typical World War II story
- De Marsha L. Woerner en 01-31-18
De: Devin Murphy
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The Ballad of the Sad Café
- De: Carson McCullers
- Narrado por: David Ledoux, Joe Barrett, Therese Plummer, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 28 m
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A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers' best stories, including her beloved novella The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose cafe serves as the town's gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes "Wunderkind", McCullers' first published story, written when she was only 17, about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist.
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Literate short stories
- De RueRue en 02-23-16
De: Carson McCullers
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The Shipping News
- De: Annie Proulx
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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At 36, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife gets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up new lives, Quoyle confronts his private demons - and the unpredictable forces of nature and society - and begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery.
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Can't Explain Why I Love This Book
- De Polly en 03-06-12
De: Annie Proulx
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The Wettest County in the World, or Lawless
- A Novel Based on a True Story
- De: Matt Bondurant
- Narrado por: Erik Steele
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County during Prohibition and after. The brothers played a central role in a major conspiracy trial and its violent end. In 1935, Sherwood Anderson, working on a magazine story, finds himself driving along the dusty red roads trying to find the brothers and break the silence that shrouds Franklin County.
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Just outstanding!
- De Rich en 08-18-12
De: Matt Bondurant
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The Walking People
- De: Mary Beth Keane
- Narrado por: Sile Bermingham
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Labeled a "softheaded goose" by her family, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, raise her own family, and earn a living.
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Irish immigratn story
- De Chrissie en 09-10-13
De: Mary Beth Keane
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Sula
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
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Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.
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Good against evil and a riotous story to boot
- De Karen en 04-11-11
De: Toni Morrison
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- Rati Patel
- 03-21-23
Screaming into the wind with nothing to say
Some have called the themes of this book subtle, but there’s “subtle” and then there’s “the author isn’t actually going anywhere with this”. Maybe I’m just missing something, but I kept waiting for some kind of culmination. Some kind of… consequence to Bigelow’s obsession, I guess. Some kind of twist, some little insight to let me in on a secret depth to the novel’s world. But there is no depth. There are no insights. No wink wink, no sleight of hand. And considering the author’s other work, I am kind of concerned what this implies about Harrison herself.
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