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Richard Powers
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Emily Woo Zeller
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Elisabeth Rodgers
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Susan Ericksen
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Joy Williams
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The legendary writer's first collection in more than 10 years, a literary event of the highest order.
Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: 33 stories drawn from three much-lauded collections and another 13 appearing here for the first time in book form.
Forty-six stories in all, far and away the most comprehensive volume in her long career, showcasing her crisp, elegant prose, her dark wit, and her uncanny ability to illuminate our world through characters and situations that feel at once peculiar and foreign and disturbingly familiar.
Virtually all American writers have their favorite Joy Williams stories, as do many listeners of all ages, and each one of them is available here in this definitive collection.
©2015 Joy Williams (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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- De: Joy Williams
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 1 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 34
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This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It's the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass - a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah, O. J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams' characters, however, are like the rest of us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don’t assume this is Christian Fiction...
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De: Joy Williams
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So Late in the Day
- De: Claire Keegan
- Narrado por: Claire Keegan
- Duración: 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 110
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently. All evening, with only the television and a bottle of champagne for company, thoughts of this woman and others intrude - and the true significance of this particular date is revealed.
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Walk the Blue Fields
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Just Superb.
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5 out of 5 stars
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After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently. All evening, with only the television and a bottle of champagne for company, thoughts of this woman and others intrude - and the true significance of this particular date is revealed.
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Just Superb.
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Now available for the first time in audio as a digital download, a selection of stories from Grace Paley: Whether writing about relationships, little girls, loving and bickering couples, angry suburbanites, frustrated job-seekers, or Jewish children performing a Christmas play, Grace Paley captured the loneliness, poignancy, and humor of the human experience with matchless style. This audio collection is an abridgement of the full volume of Grace Paley's short story work.
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- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 371
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 332
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 332
When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself - an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook - in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes over. He can't bring himself to force her from the home both treasure - the place where his father's voice lingers, the scene of shared jokes, skirmishes, and, behind the dusty antiques, a rarely acknowledged conflict...
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1 out of 5 stars
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Title Should Be Georgeville-It's All About George
- De Sara en 10-08-15
De: George Hodgman
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Stories
- All-New Tales
- De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, Al Sarrantonio - editor, Joe Hill, y otros
- Narrado por: Anne Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Katherine Kellgren, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 890
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 695
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 695
The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Something for Everyone
- De Nicole en 05-24-17
De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, y otros
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Tiger, Tiger
- A Memoir
- De: Margaux Fragoso
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 201
One summer day, Margaux Fragoso meets Peter Curran at the neighborhood swimming pool, and they begin to play. She is seven; he is 51. When Peter invites her and her mother to his house, the little girl finds a child’s paradise of exotic pets and an elaborate backyard garden. Her mother, beset by mental illness and overwhelmed by caring for Margaux, is grateful for the attention Peter lavishes on her, and he creates an imaginative universe for her, much as Lewis Carroll did for his real-life Alice.
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3 out of 5 stars
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a weirdly loving diatribe against pervs.
- De Dane Flakeman en 05-21-11
De: Margaux Fragoso
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A Death in Kitchawank, and Other Stories
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: T. C. Boyle
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 90
Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T. C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. Here are 14 new tales previously unpublished in book form. By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyle's stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. The stories here reflect his maturing themes.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed Bag
- De AuntGert en 09-22-20
De: T. C. Boyle
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She Got Up Off the Couch
- De: Haven Kimmel
- Narrado por: Haven Kimmel
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 276
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 188
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 189
When we last saw Zippy, she was oblivious to the storm that was brewing in her home. Her mother, Delonda, had literally just gotten up off the couch and ridden her rickety bicycle down the road. Her dad was off somewhere, gambling or "working." And Zippy was lost in her own fabulous world of exploring the fringes of Moorland, Indiana.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great fun !!
- De Kim en 04-20-11
De: Haven Kimmel
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Turtle Moon
- De: Alice Hoffman
- Narrado por: Sandra Burr
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 132
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 111
Turtle Moon transports the listener to Verity, Florida, a place where anything can happen during the month of May, when migrating sea turtles come to town, mistaking the glow of the streetlights for the moon. A young single mother is murdered in her apartment and her baby is gone. Keith, a 12-year-old boy in the same apartment building also disappears. In pursuit of the baby, the boy and the killer, are Keith's divorced mother and a cop who himself was once considered the meanest boy in town.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An enchanting story
- De A.J. en 05-09-11
De: Alice Hoffman
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One True Thing
- De: Anna Quindlen
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 581
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 466
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 466
A young woman sits in jail, accused of the mercy killing of her dying mother. She didn't do it, but she thinks she knows who did. In the last months of her life, Ellen Gulden's mother revealed startling secrets that challenged everything Ellen believed about her family. Now, in jail, Ellen believes those secrets will tell her who had the courage to end her mother's suffering.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Quindlen's writing skills shine in One True Thing.
- De Bonny en 08-26-13
De: Anna Quindlen
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Homesick for Another World
- Stories
- De: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan, Richard Poe
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 307
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 272
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 272
There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Funny, Dynamic Writing
- De Sofia Macht en 06-13-18
De: Ottessa Moshfegh
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Light Years
- De: James Salter
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 132
This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a marriage by a contemporary American master. It is the story of Nedra and Viri, whose favored life is centered around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends, and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unfathomable Font of Blue: Life's Serial Goodbyes
- De W Perry Hall en 04-18-19
De: James Salter
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The Pull of the Moon
- De: Elizabeth Berg
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Berg
- Duración: 4 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 95
In the middle of her life, Nan decides to leave her husband at home and begin an impromptu trek across the country, carrying with her a turquoise leather journal she intends to fill. The Pull of the Moon is a novel about a woman coming to terms with issues of importance to all women. In her journal, Nan addresses the thorniness - and the allure - of marriage, the sweet ties to children, and the gifts and lessons that come from random encounters.
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4 out of 5 stars
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For women over 50
- De Laura en 07-07-15
De: Elizabeth Berg
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The Blind Assassin
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Margot Dionne
- Duración: 18 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,098
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,406
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,399
For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious. The novel opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Good book, TERRIBLE audio!
- De Whitney en 04-27-09
De: Margaret Atwood
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Tar Baby
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Desiree Coleman
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 265
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So good that I'm writing my first Audible review!
- De BL en 12-10-11
De: Toni Morrison
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Strong Motion
- De: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrado por: Scott Aiello
- Duración: 20 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 224
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 196
Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Compelling Story, Ridiculous Narrator
- De DianeReads en 02-28-16
De: Jonathan Franzen
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Priestdaddy
- A Memoir
- De: Patricia Lockwood
- Narrado por: Patricia Lockwood
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 952
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 858
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 856
Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met - a man who lounges in boxer shorts, who loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates "like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972". His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the church's country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their two worlds collide.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Terrible narration--read, don't listen
- De Penelope en 08-06-17
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She's Come Undone
- De: Wally Lamb
- Narrado por: Linda Stephens
- Duración: 18 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,124
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,850
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,866
Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly-up.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Really disappointing narrator!
- De Jessica Williams en 01-21-12
De: Wally Lamb
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A Fatal Inversion
- De: Barbara Vine
- Narrado por: William Gaminara
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 85
In the long, hot summer of 1976, a group of young people is camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and child are discovered in the Hall’s animal cemetery. Which woman? And whose child?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Oh my!
- De Jill en 06-15-14
De: Barbara Vine
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
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Ninety-Nine Stories of God
- De: Joy Williams
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 1 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 26
This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It's the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass - a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah, O. J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams' characters, however, are like the rest of us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don’t assume this is Christian Fiction...
- De Romey Petite en 10-19-19
De: Joy Williams
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Harrow
- A novel
- De: Joy Williams
- Narrado por: Jaime Lamchick
- Duración: 6 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 41
Khristen is a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked by greatness as a baby when she died for a moment and then came back to life. After Khristen’s failing boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, and she finds that her mother has disappeared, she ranges across the dead landscape and washes up at a “resort” on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call “Big Girl.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
- De Michael P. Mcmahon en 01-07-22
De: Joy Williams
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Concerning the Future of Souls
- De: Joy Williams
- Narrado por: Joshua Manning
- Duración: 2 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Returning to her legendary short stories, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams offers a much-anticipated follow-up to Ninety-Nine Stories of God, which The New York Times Book Review called a “treasure trove of bafflements and tiny masterpieces.” Concerning the Future of Souls balances the extraordinary and the humble, the bizarre and the beatific, as Azrael—transporter of souls and the most troubled and thoughtful of the angels—confronts the holy impossibility of his task, his uneasy relationship with Death, and his friendship with the Devil.
De: Joy Williams
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The Story of Lucy Gault
- De: William Trevor
- Narrado por: Katherine Borowitz
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
The Story of Lucy Gault traces the repercussions of a child’s attempt to remain in her beloved home.Threatened with a move from Ireland to England, 9-year-old Lucy runs away, setting off a series of misunderstandings that will eventually touch each inhabitant of her village.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Style
- De Wendy B Dwyer en 02-01-25
De: William Trevor
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Where I'm Calling From
- Selected Stories
- De: Raymond Carver
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 16 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story. Where I'm Calling From, his last collection, encompasses classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier Carver volumes, along with seven new works previously unpublished in book form.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Love Carver, But Dietz Ruins It With Reading
- De Noirbat en 05-10-18
De: Raymond Carver
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The Incest Diary
- De: Anonymous
- Narrado por: Barbara Rosenblat
- Duración: 3 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 244
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 220
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 222
Throughout her childhood and adolescence, the anonymous author of The Incest Diary was raped by her father. Beneath a veneer of normal family life, she grew up in and around this all-encompassing secret. Her sexual relationship with her father lasted, off and on, into her 20s. It formed her world, and it formed her deepest fears and desires.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If I Can Bear Witness, I Must
- De Erin - Audible en 07-27-17
De: Anonymous
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Ninety-Nine Stories of God
- De: Joy Williams
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 1 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 26
This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It's the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass - a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah, O. J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams' characters, however, are like the rest of us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don’t assume this is Christian Fiction...
- De Romey Petite en 10-19-19
De: Joy Williams
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Harrow
- A novel
- De: Joy Williams
- Narrado por: Jaime Lamchick
- Duración: 6 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 41
Khristen is a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked by greatness as a baby when she died for a moment and then came back to life. After Khristen’s failing boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, and she finds that her mother has disappeared, she ranges across the dead landscape and washes up at a “resort” on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call “Big Girl.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
- De Michael P. Mcmahon en 01-07-22
De: Joy Williams
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Concerning the Future of Souls
- De: Joy Williams
- Narrado por: Joshua Manning
- Duración: 2 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Returning to her legendary short stories, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams offers a much-anticipated follow-up to Ninety-Nine Stories of God, which The New York Times Book Review called a “treasure trove of bafflements and tiny masterpieces.” Concerning the Future of Souls balances the extraordinary and the humble, the bizarre and the beatific, as Azrael—transporter of souls and the most troubled and thoughtful of the angels—confronts the holy impossibility of his task, his uneasy relationship with Death, and his friendship with the Devil.
De: Joy Williams
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The Story of Lucy Gault
- De: William Trevor
- Narrado por: Katherine Borowitz
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
The Story of Lucy Gault traces the repercussions of a child’s attempt to remain in her beloved home.Threatened with a move from Ireland to England, 9-year-old Lucy runs away, setting off a series of misunderstandings that will eventually touch each inhabitant of her village.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Style
- De Wendy B Dwyer en 02-01-25
De: William Trevor
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Where I'm Calling From
- Selected Stories
- De: Raymond Carver
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 16 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story. Where I'm Calling From, his last collection, encompasses classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier Carver volumes, along with seven new works previously unpublished in book form.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Love Carver, But Dietz Ruins It With Reading
- De Noirbat en 05-10-18
De: Raymond Carver
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The Incest Diary
- De: Anonymous
- Narrado por: Barbara Rosenblat
- Duración: 3 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 244
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 220
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 222
Throughout her childhood and adolescence, the anonymous author of The Incest Diary was raped by her father. Beneath a veneer of normal family life, she grew up in and around this all-encompassing secret. Her sexual relationship with her father lasted, off and on, into her 20s. It formed her world, and it formed her deepest fears and desires.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If I Can Bear Witness, I Must
- De Erin - Audible en 07-27-17
De: Anonymous
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Ejecución2 out of 5 stars
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Historia2 out of 5 stars
- A.C. CALLOWAY
- 01-28-24
I sure tried.
These may be wonderful stories but as much as I tried I could not get lost in them on any level. I am sure they will appeal to someone but they were lifeless to me.
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