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Christopher Hurt
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Walker Percy
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Binx's life floats casually along until one fateful Mardi Gras week, when a bizarre series of events leads him to his unlikely salvation. In his half-brother Lonnie, who is confined to a wheelchair and soon to die, and his stepcousin Kate, whose predicament is even more ominous, Binx begins to find the sort of "certified reality" that had eluded him everywhere but at the movies.
©1961 Walker Percy (P)1992 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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- 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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Don't Quit Your Daytime Job, James
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As I Lay Dying
- De: William Faulkner, Jesmyn Ward - introduction
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman, Robertson Dean, Lina Patel, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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One of William Faulkner’s finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren’s family sets out to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life.
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Faulkner's As I Lay Dying review
- De Kristina en 11-12-08
De: William Faulkner, y otros
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- De: Flannery O'Connor
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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The collection that established O’Connor’s reputation as one of the American masters of the short story. The volume contains the celebrated title story, a tale of the murderous fugitive "The Misfit", as well as “The Displaced Person” and eight other stories.
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It contains the following stories:
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- Narrado por: Jeremy Irons
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated work is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the story mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh.
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Extraordinary
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Love in the Ruins
- The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World
- De: Walker Percy
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 29 m
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The auto age is defunct. Buicks, Chryslers, and Pontiacs disfigure the landscape. Vines sprout in Manhattan. Wolves are seen in downtown Cleveland. And psychiatrist, mental hospital outpatient, and inventor Dr. Tom More has created a miraculous instrument: the ontological lapsometer, a kind of stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he plans to cure mankind’s spiritual flu. But first, he must survive Moira, Lola, and Ellen - and discover why so many living people are actually dead.
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A course thread of God
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De: Walker Percy
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Invisible Man
- A Novel
- De: Ralph Ellison
- Narrado por: Joe Morton
- Duración: 18 h y 36 m
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Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal, some of them pitiful and touching—yet always with elements of comedy and irony and burlesque that appear in unexpected places. It is a book that has a great deal to say and which is destined to have a great deal said about it.
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How Did This Escape Me?
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De: Ralph Ellison
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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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Don't Quit Your Daytime Job, James
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De: Kurt Vonnegut
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As I Lay Dying
- De: William Faulkner, Jesmyn Ward - introduction
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman, Robertson Dean, Lina Patel, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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One of William Faulkner’s finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren’s family sets out to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life.
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Faulkner's As I Lay Dying review
- De Kristina en 11-12-08
De: William Faulkner, y otros
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
- De: Flannery O'Connor
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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The collection that established O’Connor’s reputation as one of the American masters of the short story. The volume contains the celebrated title story, a tale of the murderous fugitive "The Misfit", as well as “The Displaced Person” and eight other stories.
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Brideshead Revisited
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Jeremy Irons
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated work is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the story mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh.
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Extraordinary
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De: Evelyn Waugh
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Love in the Ruins
- The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World
- De: Walker Percy
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 29 m
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The auto age is defunct. Buicks, Chryslers, and Pontiacs disfigure the landscape. Vines sprout in Manhattan. Wolves are seen in downtown Cleveland. And psychiatrist, mental hospital outpatient, and inventor Dr. Tom More has created a miraculous instrument: the ontological lapsometer, a kind of stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he plans to cure mankind’s spiritual flu. But first, he must survive Moira, Lola, and Ellen - and discover why so many living people are actually dead.
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A course thread of God
- De Darwin8u en 05-31-15
De: Walker Percy
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Invisible Man
- A Novel
- De: Ralph Ellison
- Narrado por: Joe Morton
- Duración: 18 h y 36 m
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Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal, some of them pitiful and touching—yet always with elements of comedy and irony and burlesque that appear in unexpected places. It is a book that has a great deal to say and which is destined to have a great deal said about it.
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How Did This Escape Me?
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De: Ralph Ellison
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The Great Gatsby
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Jake Gyllenhaal
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel of the Roaring Twenties is beloved by generations of readers and stands as his crowning work. This new audio edition, authorized by the Fitzgerald estate, is narrated by Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain). Gyllenhaal's performance is a faithful delivery in the voice of Nick Carraway, the Midwesterner turned New York bond salesman, who rents a small house next door to the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby....
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Simple, Beautiful, and Exquisitely Textured
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The Second Coming
- De: Walker Percy
- Narrado por: David Hilder
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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Will Barrett of Linwood, North Carolina, is a depressed widower with a peculiar tendency to fall down in strange places. Allison, the girl in the greenhouse, has just escaped from a mental institution and is working hard to make a new life for herself. When their paths cross in a most unusual manner, a relationship begins that will help restore two struggling outcasts to new life. What follows is by turns touching and zany, tragic and comic, as Will undertakes his own Pascalian wager in search of proof that God exists.
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No Easy Hothouse of Consecration
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De: Walker Percy
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A Confederacy of Dunces
- De: John Kennedy Toole
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
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The hero of John Kennedy Toole's incomparable, Pultizer Prize–winning comic classic is one Ignatius J. Reilly, an obese, self-absorbed, hapless Don Quixote of the French Quarter, whose half-hearted attempts at employment lead to a series of wacky adventures among the lower denizens of New Orleans.
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Well Done
- De Jon en 09-18-05
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The Magician
- A Novel
- De: Colm Toibin
- Narrado por: Gunnar Cauthery
- Duración: 16 h y 37 m
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The Magician opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the 20th century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his father and his homosexual desires from everyone. He is infatuated with one of the richest, most cultured Jewish families in Munich, and marries the daughter Katia. They have six children. On a holiday in Italy, he longs for a boy he sees on a beach and writes the story Death in Venice.
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Terrific listening experience
- De M. Mead en 09-17-21
De: Colm Toibin
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Lee Howard
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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First published in 1884, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is among the first novels in American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English. Some have called it the first Great American Novel, and the book has become required reading in many schools throughout the United States. The story is set along the Mississippi River in Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Arkansas around 1840. It depicts the development of Huckleberry (Huck) Finn, a boy about thirteen years old.
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Great Book
- De Cory Horton en 09-04-19
De: Mark Twain
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Hamnet
- De: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrado por: Ell Potter
- Duración: 12 h y 42 m
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Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.
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A masterpiece
- De Molly-o en 08-03-20
De: Maggie O'Farrell
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Penguin Classics
- De: Oscar Wilde
- Narrado por: Ben Barnes
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale, and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.
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Recommend this version
- De Selene Willingham en 06-16-20
De: Oscar Wilde
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The End of the Affair
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Colin Firth
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
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Graham Greene’s evocative analysis of the love of self, the love of another, and the love of God is an English classic that has been translated for the stage, the screen, and even the opera house. Academy Award-winning actor Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, A Single Man) turns in an authentic and stirring performance for this distinguished audio release.
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Colin Firth Kills It
- De Em en 05-09-12
De: Graham Greene
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The Wapshot Chronicle
- De: John Cheever
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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Based in part on Cheever's adolescence in New England, the novel follows the destinies of the impecunious and wildly eccentric Wapshots of St. Botolphs, a quintessential Massachusetts fishing village. Here are the stories of Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea dog and would-be suicide; of his licentious older son, Moses; and of Moses' adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly.
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Beautiful 1950s Great Expectations-like Novel
- De Darwin8u en 05-31-13
De: John Cheever
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All the King's Men
- De: Robert Penn Warren
- Narrado por: Michael Emerson
- Duración: 20 h y 52 m
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The fictionalized account of Louisiana's colorful and notorious governor, Huey Pierce Long, All the King's Men follows the startling rise and fall of Willie Stark, a country lawyer in the Deep South of the 1930s. Beset by political enemies, Stark seeks aid from his right-hand man Jack Burden, who will bear witness to the cataclysmic unfolding of this very American tragedy.
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Beautifully presented
- De Cheimon en 10-12-08
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East of Eden
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 25 h y 23 m
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This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
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Why have I avoided this Beautiful Book???
- De Kelly en 03-25-17
De: John Steinbeck
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The Sound and the Fury
- De: William Faulkner, Casey Cep
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner, Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character’s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
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Hang in
- De W.Denis en 07-11-05
De: William Faulkner, y otros
Reseñas de la Crítica
"Clothed in originality, intelligence, and a fierce regard for man's fate....Percy has a rare talent for making his people look and sound as though they were being seen and heard for the first time by anyone." ( Time)
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Tolerable novel narrated by a terrible reader
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Wonderfully narrated
- De vamsi en 10-02-16
De: Budd Schulberg
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Ironweed
- De: William Kennedy
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 8 h
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Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike; he ran away again after accidentally – and fatally – dropping his infant son. Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town, roaming the old familiar streets with his hobo pal, Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and the present.
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Darkly Lovely
- De Michael en 07-22-17
De: William Kennedy
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All the King's Men
- De: Robert Penn Warren
- Narrado por: Michael Emerson
- Duración: 20 h y 52 m
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The fictionalized account of Louisiana's colorful and notorious governor, Huey Pierce Long, All the King's Men follows the startling rise and fall of Willie Stark, a country lawyer in the Deep South of the 1930s. Beset by political enemies, Stark seeks aid from his right-hand man Jack Burden, who will bear witness to the cataclysmic unfolding of this very American tragedy.
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Beautifully presented
- De Cheimon en 10-12-08
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The Old Devils
- De: Kingsley Amis
- Narrado por: David Sibley
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
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Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis’s The Old Devils, which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years—when “all of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast”—nattering, complaining, reminiscing, and, above all, drinking. This more or less orderly social world is thrown off-kilter, however, when two old friends unexpectedly return from England: Alun Weaver, now a celebrated man of Welsh letters, and his entrancing wife, Rhiannon.
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Do yourself a favor and buy it
- De Troy Yulfo en 08-13-23
De: Kingsley Amis
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Dog Soldiers
- De: Robert Stone
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers - and the price of survival was dangerously high.
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intense narrative of a dark and complex time
- De gnudung en 05-05-12
De: Robert Stone
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The Tiger
- A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
- De: John Vaillant
- Narrado por: John Vaillant
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
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It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains of the victims, they discover that these attacks aren’t random: The tiger is apparently engaged in a vendetta. Injured, starving, and extremely dangerous, the tiger must be found before it strikes again.
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Thy Fearful Symmetry
- De Mel en 02-16-13
De: John Vaillant
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The Assistant
- De: Bernard Malamud
- Narrado por: Richard Davidson
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his assistant. But there are complications: Frank, whose reaction to Jews is ambivalent, falls in love with Helen Bober; at the same time he begins to steal from the store.
De: Bernard Malamud
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Herzog
- De: Saul Bellow
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 15 h y 36 m
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Winner of the National Book Award when it was first published in 1964, Herzog traces five days in the life of a failed academic whose wife has recently left him for his best friend. Through the device of letter writing, Herzog movingly portrays both the internal life of its eponymous hero and the complexity of modern consciousness.
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Grows Within You
- De Chris Reich en 08-06-11
De: Saul Bellow
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Augustus
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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A mere 18 years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic. Surrounded by men who are jockeying for power—Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, and Mark Antony—young Octavius must work against the powerful Roman political machinations to claim his destiny as first Roman emperor. Sprung from meticulous research and the pen of a true poet, Augustus tells the story of one man’s dream to liberate a corrupt Rome.
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The son of Caesar calls to you.
- De Darwin8u en 05-16-15
De: John Williams
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Ragtime
- De: E. L. Doctorow
- Narrado por: E. L. Doctorow
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears.
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too good for words
- De connie en 10-05-08
De: E. L. Doctorow
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The Son
- De: Philipp Meyer
- Narrado por: Will Patton, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Shepherd, y otros
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
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Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching examination of the bloody price of power, The Son is a gripping and utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American west with rare emotional acuity, even as it presents an intimate portrait of one family across two centuries. Eli McCullough is just twelve-years-old when a marauding band of Comanche storm his Texas homestead and brutally murder his mother and sister, taking him as a captive.
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Five Stars for the Lone Star, The Son, & Meyer
- De Mel en 06-04-13
De: Philipp Meyer
Percy's antagonist, Binx, is a genteel southern dandy, from big southern money, who walks the comfortable streets of his home town, narrating the scenery, mixed with a little free association and personal stories from his 30 years. He observes the day to day world, detached and unable to live outside his head. His relationships, both his dalliances with his secretaries and his family interactions, also have an observed quality void of connection since he returned from the Korean war . The novel revolves around Binx's day to day observations and his disconnect rather than any plot. It is in the days after that last page that this novel, and its project, crystallizes in the reader. Not every reader enjoys the thoughtful effort necessary to understand this enigmatic novel; The Moviegoer requires the readers participation in the creative process and some deep thinking--the legacy of Walker Percy's Christian existential philosophies, and truly great writing. To write a review that does this one justice, I'll have to read again and do some deep thinking (a little slow on the grasp)--looking forward to it.
The Moral Project
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novel or philosophy?
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I found the book to be a sort of Southern existentialist novel that is fairly hum-drum as Binx Bolling searches for something more.
I was disappointed. Perhaps I should search for something more; I must have missed something because I didn't get the source of the acclaim or notoriety this book received after its publication.
It's worth your time if you're from New Orleans or you're considering marrying someone who is manic-depressive. Otherwise... Well, maybe the best way to put it is to say that if I knew before purchasing this, what I now know, I would have taken a pass.
The narration was as ho-hum as the book, or maybe this was why I thought the book was so mundane. I cannot give the performance more than 3 stars.
poignant search to fill spiritual hole in soul
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While reading the book, I happened to inquire of my retired librarian mother-in-law if she had ever heard of the book. in her 90's but sharp as a tack, she immediately recalled the book, author Walker Percy and all his other books which she read over the years. I was taken with her face of nostalgia as she recalled how Percy had been one of her favorite writers as a young women who herself grew up in the South as a progressive women enraptured with the crop of New South writers documenting a slowly evolving South in the shadow of both Jim Crow and the nascent Civil Rights Movement. The book won the U.S. #nationalbookawardforfiction .
Christopher Hurt's performance on Audible really brought the work to life and I will be looking for more of his projects as well as more Percy I'm the future.
#americanliterature #readtheworld #readtheworldchallenge #globalreadingchallenge #neworleans
On the verge of everything new in old New Orleans
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philosophy literature
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He's too much of an observer--a Moviegoer.
A 'Modern' Classic
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Brilliant writer and storyteller!
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A lot of existentialism and less narrative
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I have never heard of this book but found it on several best of lists. The writing is excellent and perhaps at the time (1961) was a bit groundbreaking as a mild southern poetic exploration of existentialist ideas. I thoroughly enjoyed the book but given much existentialist water under the bridge, I did not find it the essential read I hope for.
It is short, with little action and little character evolution, the writing is light, slow, and poetic.
If you are not at all familiar with existentialist angst this is among the easiest of light introductions.
The narration was perfect, clear and engaging with excellent slow, repressed emotionality.
Nice but not Essential
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A Defining Without Explaining
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