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The Matisse Stories
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A.S. Byatt’s books shimmer with all the hues of her critically acclaimed talent and imagination. In The Matisse Stories, this Booker Prize-winning author offers three elegant tales that explore the subtle interplays between mind and eye, heart and hand. In the first, Medusa’s Ankles, a fashionable woman watches her life take on darker, more ominous shades in the mirror of a beauty salon. In the next, Art Work, an eccentric housekeeper’s alarming eye for color leaves its mark on her employers’ lives. Each of these stories, including the last, "The Chinese Lobster", is like a finely crafted jewel.
Rich imagery and effortless narratives make The Matisse Stories an unforgettable listening experience. The characters are sketched with a sureness that confirms A.S. Byatt’s artistry. And through the nuances of Virginia Leishman’s eloquent narration, the listener is brought into a rare world of heightened sensibilities and perceptions.
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- Narrado por: Gerry O'Brien
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, a new novel - at once trenchant, witty, and shattering - about the intricacies of artistic creation and theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another and to hold on to ourselves. Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating, our narrator, Oliver Otway Orme, is a painter of some renown and a petty thief who does not steal for profit and has never before been caught.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterful
- De Amazon customer en 11-25-15
De: John Banville
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Revenge
- Eleven Dark Tales
- De: Yoko Ogawa
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith, Johanna Parker
- Duración: 4 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 99
An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor - who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Maybe, more Gray then Dark?
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 10-28-14
De: Yoko Ogawa
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Brick Lane
- De: Monica Ali
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Sastre
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
- Versión resumida
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 237
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 94
Nanzeen's inauspicious birth in a Bangladeshi village imbues in her a sense of fatalism that she carries across continents. Married off to a man old enough to be her father, Nanzeen moves to London and cares for her family. But gradually she begins to question whether fate controls her or whether she has a hand in her own destiny. She discovers both the complexity that comes with free choice and the depth of her attachment to her husband, her daughters and her new world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A truly wonderful book!
- De A M en 11-24-03
De: Monica Ali
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Herzog
- De: Saul Bellow
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 15 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 380
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 292
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 294
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Grows Within You
- De Chris Reich en 08-06-11
De: Saul Bellow
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Ironskin
- De: Tina Connolly
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 113
Jane Eliot wears an iron mask. It's the only way to contain the fey curse that scars her cheek. The Great War is five years gone, but its scattered victims remain—the ironskin. When a carefully worded listing appears for a governess to assist with a “delicate situation”—a child born during the Great War—Jane is certain the child is fey-cursed, and that she can help.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Light Fantasy With A Compelling Story
- De Jeff Jackson en 11-14-12
De: Tina Connolly
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Honor
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marno, Piter Marik
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 92
An honor killing shatters and transforms the lives of Turkish immigrants in 1970s London. Internationally best-selling Turkish author Elif Shafak’s new novel is a dramatic tale of families, love, and misunderstandings that follows the destinies of twin sisters born in a Kurdish village. While Jamila stays to become a midwife, Pembe follows her Turkish husband, Adem, to London, where they hope to make new lives for themselves and their children. In London, they face a choice: stay loyal to the old traditions or try their best to fit in.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Complex but Compelling
- De Cariola en 04-14-13
De: Elif Shafak
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Ada, or Ardor
- A Family Chronicle
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 20 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 163
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 141
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 142
Published two weeks after Vladimir Nabokov’s seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of his greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest, but it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat. This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incest, a game the Whole Family Can Play
- De Darwin8u en 08-12-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Bend Sinister
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America, and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A fantastic fairytale of fascism
- De Darwin8u en 12-12-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Radiance
- De: Catherynne M. Valente
- Narrado por: Heath Miller
- Duración: 13 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 140
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 130
Severin Unck's father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1986 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father's films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the levitator cults of Neptune and the lawless saloons of Mars.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpected and tons of fun
- De Kate en 11-17-15
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- De: Muriel Spark
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 357
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 276
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 274
In the classic work that launched a play, a movie, and a song, Muriel Spark tells the darkly intriguing story of an eccentric Edinburgh teacher and the intense relationship she develops with six of her students. The scandalously outspoken Miss Brodie makes big waves in the conservative Scottish school, preaching the value of art, passion, and daring.
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5 out of 5 stars
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creme de la creme
- De Kathleen en 01-04-08
De: Muriel Spark
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Putney
- A Novel
- De: Sofka Zinovieff
- Narrado por: Michelle Ford
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
In the spirit of Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal and Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, an explosive and thought-provoking novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a man 20 years her senior. Masterfully told from three diverse viewpoints - victim, perpetrator, and witness - Putney is a subtle and enormously powerful novel about consent, agency, and what we tell ourselves to justify what we do, and what others do to us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the greatest stories of all time!
- De Valarie en 06-17-20
De: Sofka Zinovieff
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A Change of Climate
- A Novel
- De: Hilary Mantel
- Narrado por: Sandra Duncan
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 74
Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. 30 years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again. But when Ralph falls into an affair, Anna finds no forgiveness in her heart, and 30 years of repressed rage and grief explode, destroying not only a marriage but also their love, their faith, and everything they thought they were.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written
- De Patricia S. en 10-11-15
De: Hilary Mantel
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The Emissary
- De: Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani - translator
- Narrado por: Julian Cihi
- Duración: 4 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient - frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise. Mumei may be enfeebled and feverish, but he is a beacon of hope, full of wit and free of self-pity and pessimism.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Tedious. Waste of time.
- De Kenneth McGovern en 02-17-19
De: Yoko Tawada, y otros
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The Bell Jar
- De: Sylvia Plath
- Narrado por: Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,619
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,696
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,667
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful but slowly going under - maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must-read for every woman
- De Julie W. Capell en 05-06-16
De: Sylvia Plath
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High Dive
- De: Jonathan Lee
- Narrado por: Doyle Gerard
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 107
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 89
Taking us inside one of the 20th century's most ambitious assassination attempts - "making history personal", as one character puts it - High Dive moves between the luxurious hospitality of a British tourist town and the troubled city of Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the height of the armed struggle between the Irish Republican Army and those loyal to the UK government.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Humor? Not Funny.
- De W Perry Hall en 04-10-16
De: Jonathan Lee
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As a pair of young scholars research the lives of two Victorian poets, they uncover their letters, journals, and poems and track their movements from London to Yorkshire - from spiritualist seances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany. What emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passion and ideas.
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Glowing with narrator Virginia Leishman’s finely tuned phrasing, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye is the perfect introduction to A.S. Byatt, an author who continues to receive international awards and acclaim. Her wondrous fairy tales are iridescent stories full of spells, marvelous creatures, and beautiful princesses.
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In two breathtakingly accomplished novellas, A. S. Byatt explores the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One for the records
- De Mary Purvis en 11-06-17
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The Matisse Stories
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In this elegant set of stories, three modern women are touched in different ways by the paintings of Henri Matisse. The three stories are "Medusa's Ankles", "Art Works", and "The Chinese Lobster".
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Impressive
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The Children's Book
- De: A. S. Byatt
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Taking us from the cliff-lined shores of England to Paris, Munich, and the trenches of the Somme, The Children's Book is a deeply affecting story of a singular family, played out against the great, rippling tides of the day. It is a masterly literary achievement by one of our most essential writers.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A wandering story that goes on forever.
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The Frederica Quartet: The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower & A Whistling Woman
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation Plus Selected Short Stories
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Inspired by the novels of D.H. Lawrence, particularly The Rainbow and Women in Love, this ambitious quartet from Booker Prize-winning novelist A.S. Byatt charts the lives of the Potter family between 1953 and 1970. Set against the changing social and political landscape of England in the '50s and '60s, it follows the heroine, Frederica, from precocious teenager to TV talk-show host and from her Yorkshire home to the heart of swinging London.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely Excellent
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5 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Impressive
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- De: A. S. Byatt
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2 out of 5 stars
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