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Great House
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- Narrado por: Alma Cuervo, George Guidall, Celeste Ciulla, Paul Hecht, Robert Ian Mackenzie
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The five short pieces All Rise, True Kindness, Swimming Holes, Lies Told by Children, and Weisz are narrated respectively by Alma Cuervo, George Guidall, Robert McKenzie, Celeste Ciulla, and Paul Hecht. Each narrator puts his or her own style into the text: Cuervo’s thoughtful writer recollects her relationship with a poet who left the desk in her care; Guidall’s sharply-voiced father pines for a relationship with his adult son; McKenzie’s elegant widower discovers a long-held secret about his dead wife and the desk she was so attached to; Ciulla describes her relationship with a pair of siblings under the control of a powerful parent; and Hecht gives life to a man on a lifelong quest to recreate the most important moment of his childhood. Every one of them brings individual pacing, tone, and emphasis to the main and secondary characters, turning the vignettes into a cohesive whole. Great House, which was just nominated for a National Book Award, isn’t a plot-heavy novel, but Krauss’ writing is delicate and haunting, with a lyrical, poignant style that the narrators focus into emotional journeys through each character’s past and present. Blythe Copeland
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From the internationally best-selling author of The History of Love comes this stunning novel. Great House follows the multiple owners of one writing desk and how the desk shapes their lives. A young novelist inherited the desk from a poet taken by Pinochet’s police. Then the desk is stolen from her by the poet’s supposed daughter. In its drawers, another man discovers a long-kept secret about his wife. And a Jerusalem antiques dealer uses the desk in his family’s study, which was devastated by the Nazis in 1944.
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Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son, Robin, is funny, loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals, and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from third grade for smashing his friend's face with a metal thermos.
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Not Usually a Richard Powers Fan
- De Billy en 09-28-21
De: Richard Powers
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The History of Love
- De: Nicole Krauss
- Narrado por: George Guidall, Barbara Caruso, Julia Gibson, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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Nicole Krauss' first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and her short fiction has been collected in Best American Short Stories. Now The History of Love proves Krauss is among our finest and freshest literary voices.
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Like Garcia-Marquez on Anti-Pschyotics
- De Jane en 10-14-08
De: Nicole Krauss
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To Be a Man
- Stories
- De: Nicole Krauss
- Narrado por: Nicole Krauss
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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In one of her strongest works of fiction yet, Nicole Krauss plunges fearlessly into the struggle to understand what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman, and the arising tensions that have existed from the very beginning of time. Set in our contemporary moment, and moving across the globe from Switzerland, Japan, and New York City to Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, and South America, the stories in To Be a Man feature male characters as fathers, lovers, friends, children, seducers, and even a lost husband who may never have been a husband at all.
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The joy of great literature
- De Brian Datnow en 01-02-21
De: Nicole Krauss
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Forest Dark
- A Novel
- De: Nicole Krauss
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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Jules Epstein, a man whose drive, avidity, and outsized personality have, for 68 years, been a force to be reckoned with, is undergoing a metamorphosis. In the wake of his parents' deaths, his divorce from his wife of more than 30 years, and his retirement from the New York legal firm where he was a partner, he's felt an irresistible need to give away his possessions, alarming his children and perplexing the executor of his estate. With the last of his wealth, he travels to Israel with a nebulous plan to do something to honor his parents.
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Not for me
- De Bonny en 10-02-17
De: Nicole Krauss
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Man Walks Into a Room
- De: Nicole Krauss
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
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Nicole Krauss’ Great House was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Man Walks Into a Room follows Samson Greene, who, during the removal of a brain tumor, loses his adult memories. Feeling lost as an outsider in his own life, Samson agrees to participate in a scientific experiment in which memories are grafted from one brain to another.
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disappointing
- De isisimages en 03-13-14
De: Nicole Krauss
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La historia del amor [The History of Love]
- De: Nicole Krauss, Ana María de la Fuente Rodríguez - traductor
- Narrado por: Daniel Ortiz, Sheila Blanco, Javier Portugués (Portu), y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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Con una sabia mezcla de humor y ternura, Nicole Krauss relata una hermosa aproximación a los temas del amor, la pérdida y la memoria, además de un homenaje a la literatura y a la forma en que los libros pueden cambiar la vida de las personas.
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Bewilderment
- A Novel
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son, Robin, is funny, loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals, and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from third grade for smashing his friend's face with a metal thermos.
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Not Usually a Richard Powers Fan
- De Billy en 09-28-21
De: Richard Powers
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- teatime
- 12-23-10
Great House
I totally enjoyed this book. Haven't we all inherited some piece of furniture , or a book, or something that connects us with a very interesting past?
This book grabbed my attention from the very beginning. It is worth a good listen. I even sat down in my living room, after everybody else was in bed ... I enjoyed it.
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- Helen
- 11-24-10
creative
I recommend it. The book was unusual and creative. I think it fell a step short of connecting the stories. I'm going to listen to it again, something I don't normally do, to see if I missed something. I think it's a good book for a book club as it should elicit get great discussions.
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- Jonelle
- 06-18-12
Great rewards for the patient listener
It's easy to be put off this book...it is densely written, with each character focusing at an almost excruciating level on their inner life.
It's not a happy book. Plus, the multiple narrators relating seemingly unrelated stories could confuse anyone who's not paying attention.
However, this is one of those books that will definitely reward the patient listener.
About loss, death and ultimately the meaning of life, it is a powerful novel, with richly drawn characters. It definitely left me wanting to know more about what came next; and it's one of those rare books that I plan to re-read.
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- ms
- 11-30-10
Deeply moving and beautifully written
Although the author has said she does not write with a plan for the story, each section is beautifully written and read. Her images jump out and make you want to hear them again. This audiobook is worth taking the time to really listen to Krause's words.
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- Lisa
- 11-30-10
Beautiful writing, but probably better to read it
This novel and its mediations on loss and loneliness and the connections that the characters from different stories eventually have with each other are hard to dwell on when you are listening to it. I believe that reading it would be better. I got a hard copy and after reading certain sections and seeing words repeated, I was able to make the connections that a careful reader would pick up on, which answered a bunch of questions for me about who is who in the novel. Just listening in the car, this was not something I could do, and I was happy I read it. The different stories all have separate narrators and this was helpful as they are interspersed with each other, and otherwise it would have been hard to know who was talking.
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- isisimages
- 01-18-11
It wasn't History of Love but....
it was still a good listen! Love the readers she has for her books!
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-18-13
Weirdly narrated.
What did you like best about Great House? What did you like least?
I think I would have liked this book more if the narration hadn't been so oddly directed. The women narrators were both like public radio announcers, completely without inflection or personality. I don't understand those choices at all. The men were much better, with the possible exception of Weiss at the end... again, very flat.
What gives?
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- Lisbeth
- 07-19-11
Great Start
I was captivated by this story, but felt that it fell down about two thirds of the way through the book. Then it became somewhat convoluted. I would like to get hold of a hard copy from the library some time soon and see if I can make sense of some of the loose threads. I found the narration to be enjoyable.
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- Kelly
- 11-01-18
Novel lacks urgency, but has other good qualities
These lines from a review from a site called Bookslut echo my main problem with the book:
"Such lyrical philosophizing is typical of Great House, a book told not in scene, but through memories. For this reason, the
novel at times feels slow. All action has already occurred and the tension comes not from the moment to moment situation of
the characters, but from the meta-narrative that ties the characters together. Though it reaches moments of elegant
reflection, the novel lacks urgency."
I liked the inner voice of characters reflecting deeply on their lives, but I was confused by one of the narrators who seemed to have zero connection with the desk. I felt like I missed something important, and I probably did, because in listening to a book you can't flip back through the pages.
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- P. Giorgio
- 10-23-10
Deep and deeply satisfying
The stories that comprise the story of the desk, the interconnectedness, the longing, loss and pain are so palpable, so immense that only the desk itself could sort and carry it all. Furniture as character, imbued with life and living, physical and psychological characteristics -- it works.
These are not "vignettes," they are different aspects of the same stories told technically out of chronological order, but artistically told in exactly the right order like the thread of Ariadne, unraveling slowly, surely and completely. Much is left unsaid/unresolved. Questions remain unanswered, but if you can enter the dream of this journey, everything is revealed. The writing is fresh and yet classically constructed. The allusions, ancient and new are guideposts; the characters are cut from one massive fabric of life and yet they are separate and whole. The story is not like a plot. It is a story of many people, many years and many artifacts. Will it change your life? Probably not. Will you laugh? Probably not? Will you weep? Maybe, maybe not. You will recognize yourself and your own thoughts in some passages and you will find nothing of yourself in others. Is it a page-turner? Absolutely? At the end, does it all make sense? Most of it, and yet nothing is senseless or falsely placed. Not for everyone, not nearly as accessible as Krauss' "The History of Love," it is deeper and more challenging. Terrific.
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