After the Blue Hour
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Prime members: New to Audible?Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
After the Blue Hour
Buy for $21.49
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Cooper North
-
By:
-
John Rechy
About this listen
Fleeing a turbulent life in Los Angeles, John accepts an invitation to a private island from an admirer of his work. There, he joins Paul, his imposing host in his late 30s; his beautiful mistress; and his precocious teenage son. Browsing Paul's library and conversing together on the deck about literature and film during the spell of evening's "blue hour", John feels surcease until, with unabashed candor, Paul shares intimate details of his life. Through cunning, seductive charm, he married and divorced an ambassador's daughter and the heiress to a vast fortune. Avoiding identifying his son's mother, he reveals an affinity for erotic "dangerous games". With intimations of past decadence and menace, an abandoned island nearby arouses tense fascination over the group. As "games" veer toward violence, secrets surface in startling twists and turns. Explosive confrontation becomes inevitable.
©2017 John Rechy (P)2017 HighBridge, a division of Recorded BooksListeners also enjoyed...
-
City of Night
- By: John Rechy
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 103
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 90
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 90
When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Genet and Kerouac, even as Rechy was personally attacked by scandalized reviewers. Nevertheless, the book became an international best seller, and 50 years later, it has become a classic. Bold and inventive in style, Rechy is unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling "youngman" and his search for self-knowledge.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A seminal classic
- By Robert Simmons on 09-22-19
By: John Rechy
-
Another Country
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 803
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 674
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 673
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable truths about themselves along the way. Another Country is a work that is as powerful today as it was 40 years ago - and expertly narrated by Dion Graham.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Powerful and sad
- By Kenneth on 04-10-09
By: James Baldwin
-
Dancer from the Dance
- A Novel
- By: Andrew Holleran
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 101
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 85
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 85
Now in audio for the first time! Award-winning actor and two-time Tony Award nominee David Pittu narrates one of the most influential books in gay literature. Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance defined gay life in late 1970s New York. Published in 1978, the novel captures the time post-Stonewall and pre-AIDS where sexual freedom was celebrated and the future appeared limitless.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Excellent
- By Charles Lloyd on 12-25-22
By: Andrew Holleran
-
The Kingdom of Sand
- A Novel
- By: Andrew Holleran
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 69
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 59
The Kingdom of Sand features a nameless narrator who has survived the death of his friends to AIDS and the loss of his parents to old age and tragedy. Now he must witness the slow demise of a friend just a shade older than he is. Semi-anonymous sexual encounters, gallows humor, and classic films are his tools for staving off the dying of the light. In prose that’s in turn mordantly funny and hauntingly elegiac, Andrew Holleran takes the listener from a video porn shop off Route 301 to the memory of parties in Washington, DC.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Bold, hilarious & profound
- By M. Mead on 06-14-23
By: Andrew Holleran
-
A Ladder to the Sky
- A Novel
- By: John Boyne
- Narrated by: Richard E. Grant, Richard Cordery, Nina Sosanya, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,139
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,027
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,028
Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesn’t have is talent - but he’s not about to let a detail like that stand in his way. After all, a would-be writer can find stories anywhere. They don’t need to be his own. Working as a waiter in a West Berlin hotel in 1988, Maurice engineers the perfect opportunity: a chance encounter with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann. He quickly ingratiates himself with the powerful - but desperately lonely - older man, teasing out of Erich a terrible, long-held secret about his activities during the war.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
This is a very smart book
- By Johnnie Terry on 01-05-19
By: John Boyne
-
Bath Haus
- A Thriller
- By: P. J. Vernon
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Daniel Henning
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,169
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,047
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 1,044
Oliver Park, a recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partner in Nathan, a prominent DC trauma surgeon. Despite their difference in age and disparate backgrounds, they've made a perfect life together. With everything to lose, Oliver shouldn't be visiting Haus, a gay bathhouse. But through the entrance he goes, and it's a line crossed. Inside, he follows a man into a private room, and it's the final line. Whatever happens next, Nathan can never know.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Absolutely Gripping
- By Joseph on 06-18-21
By: P. J. Vernon
-
City of Night
- By: John Rechy
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 103
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 90
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 90
When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Genet and Kerouac, even as Rechy was personally attacked by scandalized reviewers. Nevertheless, the book became an international best seller, and 50 years later, it has become a classic. Bold and inventive in style, Rechy is unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling "youngman" and his search for self-knowledge.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A seminal classic
- By Robert Simmons on 09-22-19
By: John Rechy
-
Another Country
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 803
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 674
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 673
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable truths about themselves along the way. Another Country is a work that is as powerful today as it was 40 years ago - and expertly narrated by Dion Graham.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Powerful and sad
- By Kenneth on 04-10-09
By: James Baldwin
-
Dancer from the Dance
- A Novel
- By: Andrew Holleran
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 101
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 85
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 85
Now in audio for the first time! Award-winning actor and two-time Tony Award nominee David Pittu narrates one of the most influential books in gay literature. Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance defined gay life in late 1970s New York. Published in 1978, the novel captures the time post-Stonewall and pre-AIDS where sexual freedom was celebrated and the future appeared limitless.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Excellent
- By Charles Lloyd on 12-25-22
By: Andrew Holleran
-
The Kingdom of Sand
- A Novel
- By: Andrew Holleran
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 69
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 59
The Kingdom of Sand features a nameless narrator who has survived the death of his friends to AIDS and the loss of his parents to old age and tragedy. Now he must witness the slow demise of a friend just a shade older than he is. Semi-anonymous sexual encounters, gallows humor, and classic films are his tools for staving off the dying of the light. In prose that’s in turn mordantly funny and hauntingly elegiac, Andrew Holleran takes the listener from a video porn shop off Route 301 to the memory of parties in Washington, DC.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Bold, hilarious & profound
- By M. Mead on 06-14-23
By: Andrew Holleran
-
A Ladder to the Sky
- A Novel
- By: John Boyne
- Narrated by: Richard E. Grant, Richard Cordery, Nina Sosanya, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,139
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,027
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,028
Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesn’t have is talent - but he’s not about to let a detail like that stand in his way. After all, a would-be writer can find stories anywhere. They don’t need to be his own. Working as a waiter in a West Berlin hotel in 1988, Maurice engineers the perfect opportunity: a chance encounter with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann. He quickly ingratiates himself with the powerful - but desperately lonely - older man, teasing out of Erich a terrible, long-held secret about his activities during the war.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
This is a very smart book
- By Johnnie Terry on 01-05-19
By: John Boyne
-
Bath Haus
- A Thriller
- By: P. J. Vernon
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Daniel Henning
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,169
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,047
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 1,044
Oliver Park, a recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partner in Nathan, a prominent DC trauma surgeon. Despite their difference in age and disparate backgrounds, they've made a perfect life together. With everything to lose, Oliver shouldn't be visiting Haus, a gay bathhouse. But through the entrance he goes, and it's a line crossed. Inside, he follows a man into a private room, and it's the final line. Whatever happens next, Nathan can never know.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Absolutely Gripping
- By Joseph on 06-18-21
By: P. J. Vernon
-
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen
- The Doomsday Books, Book 1
- By: KJ Charles
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 225
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 200
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 200
Abandoned by his father, Gareth Inglis grew up lonely, prickly, and used to disappointment. Still, he longs for a connection. When he meets a charming stranger, he falls head over heels—until everything goes wrong and he's left alone again. Then Gareth's father dies, turning the shabby London clerk into Sir Gareth, with a grand house on the remote Romney Marsh and a family he doesn't know. The Marsh is another world, a strange, empty place notorious for its ruthless gangs of smugglers. And one of them is dangerously familiar…
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Narrator pauses every few words, near unlistenable
- By Little J on 03-10-23
By: KJ Charles
-
Lesser Known Monsters
- By: Rory Michaelson
- Narrated by: Rhys Jennings
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 20
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20
Oscar Tundale is not a hero. Anxious, indecisive, and awkward, he can barely get through a normal day. Now he’s about to find out monsters are real. Oscar’s friends—brave, stubborn Zara and hyperactive, paranoid Marcus—might help discover what hunts him and unravel the truth about the handsome doctor he pines for. But only heroes can save the world, so maybe the best Oscar can hope for is to not end it by accident.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
A great LGBTQ urban fantasy with mythology feels
- By CJDsCurrentRead on 01-27-23
By: Rory Michaelson
-
Call Me by Your Name
- A Novel
- By: André Aciman
- Narrated by: Armie Hammer
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,448
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 12,190
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12,168
Call Me by Your Name first swept across the world in 2007. It is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. During the restless summer weeks, unrelenting but buried currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them and verge toward the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Amazing.
- By Nico L. on 10-07-17
By: André Aciman
-
Full Service
- My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars
- By: Scotty Bowers, Lionel Friedberg
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 753
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 650
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 647
Newly discharged from the Marines after World War II, Scotty Bowers arrived in Hollywood in 1946. Young, charismatic, and strikingly handsome, he quickly caught the eye of many of the town's stars and starlets. He began sleeping with some himself, and connecting others with his coterie of young, attractive, and sexually free-spirited friends.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
My ears!
- By Kimberly Brooks on 10-26-12
By: Scotty Bowers, and others
-
Alec
- A Novel
- By: William di Canzio
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 139
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 119
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 119
Di Canzio follows their story past the end of Maurice to the front lines of battle in World War I and beyond. Forster, who tried to write an epilogue about the future of his characters, was stymied by the radical change that the Great War brought to their world. With the hindsight of a century, di Canzio imagines a future for them and a past for Alec—a young villager possessed of remarkable passion and self-knowledge.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Wonderful continuation of Maurice
- By michaelforrest on 07-25-21
-
The Sins of Jack Branson
- By: David Schulze
- Narrated by: David Sweeney-Bear
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
England 1881. Being gay is both a sin and a crime. Parents disowning their children is considered honourable. Consensual sex risks life in prison. Sodomy scandals ruin careers and reputations. Homosexuals have to choose between safety and happiness. After an unspeakable incident gets him exiled from his idyllic Irish hometown, twenty-four-year-old Jack Branson rebuilds his life in fog-and-mould London as a house call prostitute for closeted members of the British aristocracy.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Great story based on real events turned into soft porn dribble
- By Gerard Izzo on 06-18-23
By: David Schulze
-
Envy
- By: Sandra Brown
- Narrated by: Victor Slezak
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,578
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,384
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,372
New York book editor Maris Matherly-Reed knows a best seller when she sees one - even if it is just a tantalizing partial manuscript submitted by a writer identified only as P.M.E., with the return address of an obscure island off the Georgia coast. Maris is intrigued enough to search for him.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Envy
- By KaHef on 05-26-07
By: Sandra Brown
-
Never Been Kissed
- Boy Meets Boy, Book 1
- By: Timothy Janovsky
- Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 67
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Wren Roland has never been kissed, but he wants that movie-perfect ending more than anything. Feeling nostalgic on the eve of his birthday, he sends emails to all the boys he (ahem) loved before he came out. Morning brings the inevitable Oh God What Did I Do?, but he brushes that panic aside. Why stress about it? None of his could-have-beens are actually going to read the emails, much less respond. Right? Enter Derick Haverford, Wren's #1 pre-coming-out-crush and his drive-in theater's new social-media intern.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Skips a couple minutes in both chapter 5 and 6
- By Jonas Hammer on 05-09-22
By: Timothy Janovsky
-
Wildest Dreams
- By: Jennifer Blake
- Narrated by: Carrie Russo
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Joletta Caresse's beloved grandmother dies, taking with her the secret to the formula of a legendary perfume that is now the most sought-after perfume on the market. Joletta tries to track down the formula through journals written by her ancestress, Violet Fossier, who in 1854 made a grand tour of Europe. As Joletta follows Violet's itinerary across the continent, the story goes back in time, to 19th-century Europe and a scandalous love affair that is intimately bound up in the mystery of the perfume.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Made me cry
- By Amazon Customer on 02-14-23
By: Jennifer Blake
-
Still Time
- A Novel
- By: Jean Hegland
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 37
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 33
Until John Wilson met the warm, wise woman who became his fourth wife, the object of his most intense devotion had always been the work of William Shakespeare. From his feat of memorizing Romeo and Juliet and half a dozen other plays as a student to his evangelical zeal as a professor, John's faith in the Bard has shaped his life. But now his mental powers have been diminished by dementia, and his wife has reluctantly moved him to a residential care facility.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Dementia and Shakespeare
- By Joan Price on 05-31-16
By: Jean Hegland
-
Funeral Games
- A Novel of Alexander the Great
- By: Mary Renault
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 127
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 106
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 106
Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India.After Alexander's death in 323 B.C. his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and a simpleton half-brother. Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives, distant relatives and generals all vied for the loyalty of the increasingly undisciplined Macedonian army. Most failed and were killed in the attempt.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Postmortem of an Empire and the Dream that United
- By James on 02-26-15
By: Mary Renault
-
The Invitation
- By: Lucy Foley
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,093
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 980
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 974
Rome, 1953: Hal, an itinerant journalist flailing in the postwar darkness, has come to the Eternal City to lose himself and to seek absolution for the thing that haunts him. One evening he finds himself on the steps of a palazzo, walking into a world of privilege and light. Here, on a rooftop above the city, he meets the mysterious Stella. Hal and Stella are from different worlds, but their connection is magnetic. Together they escape the crowded party and imagine a different life, even if it's just for a night.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
An Absolutely Beautiful Story!
- By Yuh on 05-08-21
By: Lucy Foley
Related to this topic
-
City of Night
- By: John Rechy
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 103
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 90
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 90
When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Genet and Kerouac, even as Rechy was personally attacked by scandalized reviewers. Nevertheless, the book became an international best seller, and 50 years later, it has become a classic. Bold and inventive in style, Rechy is unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling "youngman" and his search for self-knowledge.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A seminal classic
- By Robert Simmons on 09-22-19
By: John Rechy
-
Great & Secret Show
- By: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Chet Williamson
- Length: 22 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 918
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 833
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 838
In the little town of Palomo Grove, two great armies are amassing; forces shaped from the hearts and souls of America. In this New York Times best-seller, Barker unveils one of the most ambitious imaginative landscapes in modern fiction, creating a new vocabulary for the age-old battle between good and evil. Carrying its readers from the first stirring of consciousness to a vision of the end of the world, The Great and Secret Show is a breathtaking journey in the company of a master storyteller.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Horrific Dark Fantasy
- By Michael on 09-05-16
By: Clive Barker
-
Galilee
- By: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 23 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 277
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 247
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 250
The Barbarossa family’s roots are far more ancient and ethereal, but they are bound to the Gearys by a shared history of murder, insanity, and adultery. When Rachel Geary and Galilee, the seductive prince of the Barbarossa clan, fall in love, they unleash powerful enmities that could destroy both dynasties. Shorter and more conventional than some of Barker’s other work, this novel is especially rich with complex, passionate, three-dimensional characters, lush settings, and elegant language.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
An Audiophile's Dream
- By Joseph on 09-01-11
By: Clive Barker
-
Sophie's Choice
- By: William Styron
- Narrated by: Norman Snow
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 248
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 210
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 210
In this brilliant, multi-layered novel, a young Southerner, Stingo, wants to become a writer. In Brooklyn, he meets Nathan, a brilliant Jewish intellectual involved in a turbulent love-hate affair with Sophie, a beautiful Polish woman. She has a terrible wound in her past, one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
THIS IS ABRIDGED
- By J. Flynn on 07-25-16
By: William Styron
-
Witchcraft
- By: Jayne Ann Krentz
- Narrated by: Lesa Lockford
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 208
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 188
-
Story3.5 out of 5 stars 187
Mystery writer Kimberly Sawyer lives alone and likes it that way. But when she is threatened by a hooded figure, and a blood-red rose with a needle thrust into its heart is left on her doorstep, she knows she needs protection. So it seems like perfect timing when Napa Valley vineyard owner Darius Cavenaugh returns to Kimberly's life, offering help and a place to stay. But how did he know she needed him? Was it the deep, intuitive intimacy of a soulmate... or was it witchcraft?
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Kind of a let down
- By Kelypso on 05-13-23
By: Jayne Ann Krentz
-
In Malice, Quite Close
- By: Brandi Lynn Ryder
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 65
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 56
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 56
French ex-pat Tristan Mourault is the wealthy, urbane heir to a world-renowned collection of art - and an insatiable voyeur enamored with Karen Miller, a 15-year-old from a working-class family in San Francisco. Deciding he must 'rescue' Karen from her unhappy circumstances, Tristan kidnaps her and stages her death to mask his true crime.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
In malice,Quite close
- By Wendy on 09-06-11
-
City of Night
- By: John Rechy
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 103
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 90
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 90
When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Genet and Kerouac, even as Rechy was personally attacked by scandalized reviewers. Nevertheless, the book became an international best seller, and 50 years later, it has become a classic. Bold and inventive in style, Rechy is unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling "youngman" and his search for self-knowledge.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A seminal classic
- By Robert Simmons on 09-22-19
By: John Rechy
-
Great & Secret Show
- By: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Chet Williamson
- Length: 22 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 918
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 833
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 838
In the little town of Palomo Grove, two great armies are amassing; forces shaped from the hearts and souls of America. In this New York Times best-seller, Barker unveils one of the most ambitious imaginative landscapes in modern fiction, creating a new vocabulary for the age-old battle between good and evil. Carrying its readers from the first stirring of consciousness to a vision of the end of the world, The Great and Secret Show is a breathtaking journey in the company of a master storyteller.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Horrific Dark Fantasy
- By Michael on 09-05-16
By: Clive Barker
-
Galilee
- By: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 23 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 277
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 247
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 250
The Barbarossa family’s roots are far more ancient and ethereal, but they are bound to the Gearys by a shared history of murder, insanity, and adultery. When Rachel Geary and Galilee, the seductive prince of the Barbarossa clan, fall in love, they unleash powerful enmities that could destroy both dynasties. Shorter and more conventional than some of Barker’s other work, this novel is especially rich with complex, passionate, three-dimensional characters, lush settings, and elegant language.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
An Audiophile's Dream
- By Joseph on 09-01-11
By: Clive Barker
-
Sophie's Choice
- By: William Styron
- Narrated by: Norman Snow
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 248
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 210
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 210
In this brilliant, multi-layered novel, a young Southerner, Stingo, wants to become a writer. In Brooklyn, he meets Nathan, a brilliant Jewish intellectual involved in a turbulent love-hate affair with Sophie, a beautiful Polish woman. She has a terrible wound in her past, one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
THIS IS ABRIDGED
- By J. Flynn on 07-25-16
By: William Styron
-
Witchcraft
- By: Jayne Ann Krentz
- Narrated by: Lesa Lockford
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 208
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 188
-
Story3.5 out of 5 stars 187
Mystery writer Kimberly Sawyer lives alone and likes it that way. But when she is threatened by a hooded figure, and a blood-red rose with a needle thrust into its heart is left on her doorstep, she knows she needs protection. So it seems like perfect timing when Napa Valley vineyard owner Darius Cavenaugh returns to Kimberly's life, offering help and a place to stay. But how did he know she needed him? Was it the deep, intuitive intimacy of a soulmate... or was it witchcraft?
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Kind of a let down
- By Kelypso on 05-13-23
By: Jayne Ann Krentz
-
In Malice, Quite Close
- By: Brandi Lynn Ryder
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 65
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 56
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 56
French ex-pat Tristan Mourault is the wealthy, urbane heir to a world-renowned collection of art - and an insatiable voyeur enamored with Karen Miller, a 15-year-old from a working-class family in San Francisco. Deciding he must 'rescue' Karen from her unhappy circumstances, Tristan kidnaps her and stages her death to mask his true crime.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
In malice,Quite close
- By Wendy on 09-06-11
-
The Invasion of Heaven
- Part One of the Newirth Mythology
- By: Michael B. Koep
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 373
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 343
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 342
Psychologist Loche Newirth becomes hunted when he sees a painting that opens a window onto the afterlife. An ancient order of men seeking to control the art pursue him across the world, through centuries, into madness, and beyond. The first part of Michael B. Koep's the Newirth Mythology The Invasion of Heaven is mystery, adventure, myth, betrayal, murder, and madness. Loche Newirth wonders if it was his fall: The 50-foot drop from the rocky cliff to the icy water below. Is this why he has been hallucinating?
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Good story - well written
- By Amy Q on 05-17-20
By: Michael B. Koep
-
Wildest Dreams
- By: Jennifer Blake
- Narrated by: Carrie Russo
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Joletta Caresse's beloved grandmother dies, taking with her the secret to the formula of a legendary perfume that is now the most sought-after perfume on the market. Joletta tries to track down the formula through journals written by her ancestress, Violet Fossier, who in 1854 made a grand tour of Europe. As Joletta follows Violet's itinerary across the continent, the story goes back in time, to 19th-century Europe and a scandalous love affair that is intimately bound up in the mystery of the perfume.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Made me cry
- By Amazon Customer on 02-14-23
By: Jennifer Blake
-
Changing Tides
- By: Michael Thomas Ford
- Narrated by: Blake Somerset
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 44
Marine biologist Ben Ransome understands the sea, especially the tiny, beautiful sea slugs he has studied and admired for most of his life. What Ben doesn't understand are people, and now, one of the most important people in his life - his 16-year-old daughter, Caddie - is coming to live with him for the summer. But the sweet, happy child he remembers has been replaced by a wounded, angry stranger who resents everything about her father. Caddie is determined to act out in every way, leaving Ben feeling more alone than ever.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Sounds like a college lecture
- By Patrick McDonald on 12-15-16
-
The Magus
- By: John Fowles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 26 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 915
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 806
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 815
John Fowles’s The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, and it continues to create tension and concern today.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
One of the best novels that I really think I hate.
- By Darwin8u on 01-29-14
By: John Fowles
-
Leaving the Atocha Station
- By: Ben Lerner
- Narrated by: Ben Lerner
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 271
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 234
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 232
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's 'research' becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections?
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Insightful, beautiful
- By Rochelle on 12-09-14
By: Ben Lerner
-
Bayou Bride
- By: Jennifer Blake
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 58
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 49
When Sherry Mason agrees to pose as her friend Paul's fiancée to protect him from a loveless marriage forced by his arrogant and domineering older brother, Lucien, she has no idea how far Lucien will go to ensure his younger brother's obedience. Then she finds herself trapped in an isolated mansion in the Louisiana bayou, his unwilling prisoner. She vows to thwart Lucien in any way that she can, but is dismayed when her rebellious intentions give way to an overwhelming tide of passionate feelings for her errant captor. Is it possible that she can listen to her heart without betraying her best friend?
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Save Your Money & Time
- By Kindle Customer on 05-02-15
By: Jennifer Blake
-
A Scandal, a Secret, a Baby
- By: Sharon Kendrick
- Narrated by: Julia Barry
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 52
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Dante D'Arezzo is the last person famous songwriter Justina Perry wants to see at her best friend's wedding. The wickedly sexy Italian is ruthless to the core. He broke her heart once; she won't surrender to his insatiable desire again.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
awesome
- By Buffy on 12-08-21
By: Sharon Kendrick
-
Goddess of the Sea
- By: P. C. Cast
- Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 526
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 472
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 467
Home alone on the night of her 25th birthday, Air Force Sergeant Christine Canady yearned for something to cure her loneliness. After drinking too much champagne, she recited a divine invocation to revive her humdrum life. But how was she to know the spell would actually work? When her plane crashes into the ocean, CC's life changes forever. She awakens, bewildered, to find herself in a legendary time and place ruled by magic - and in the body of the mythic mermaid Undine.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
If only...
- By KD Sampo on 04-28-17
By: P. C. Cast
-
Highlander Mine
- By: Juliette Miller
- Narrated by: Carolyn Bonnyman
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 97
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 86
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 88
Raised on the debauched margins of society, Amelia Taylor depends upon her quick wit and fiery spirit to survive. When danger closes in on her already precarious home, she flees into the Highlands and finds refuge in the iron-strong circle of Clan Mackenzie. There, her lack of propriety and intriguing beauty draw the attentions of their formidable leader. But to remain safe from pursuit, she must conceal her identity, even if it means deceiving Laird Knox Mackenzie.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Sweet Tender Story
- By 🌸DARA on 02-02-14
By: Juliette Miller
-
Three Daughters of Eve
- By: Elif Shafak
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 227
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 207
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 208
Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three Daughters of Eve is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Review 3 daughters of Eve
- By CA on 04-28-18
By: Elif Shafak
-
Trial of Passion
- By: William Deverell
- Narrated by: John Morgan
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 69
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 60
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 59
Arthur Beauchamp, a heralded criminal lawyer, has moved to a quiet island off the British Columbia coast. While trying to recover from a marriage gone sour, his retirement is interrupted by his former law partners - they want Arthur to take charge of the defense trial of Jonathan O'Donnell, the acting dean of a law school. O'Donnell has been accused of rape by one of the students, Kimberley Martin, a smart but arrogant woman who is engaged to a rich businessman.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
You Might REEEEELY Like this… Or Not
- By Ted on 07-26-14
By: William Deverell
-
Moon
- By: James Herbert
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 29
The dark side. He had fled from the terrors of his past, finding refuge in the quietness of the island. And for a time he lived in peace. Until the 'sightings' began, visions of horror seeping into his mind like poisonous tendrils, violent acts that were hideously macabre, the thoughts becoming intense. He witnessed the grotesque acts of another, a thing that gloried in murder and mutilation, a monster that soon became aware of the observer within its own mind. And relished the contact.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Moon by James Herbert
- By Joshua Kring on 12-18-14
By: James Herbert
What listeners say about After the Blue Hour
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- escoocoo
- 07-07-23
Haunting!
Haunting and intense. Well written. Loved the narrator and his voice. So atmospheric! A story to be listened to/read more than once. There is quite a lot going on here.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!