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- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne, Mark Bramhall, MacLeod Andrews, full cast, David Garelick, Matt Godfrey, Dan Woren, Rob Shapiro, R. C. Bray, Amy Landon, Joe Ochman
- Duración: 6 h y 17 m
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In this unforgettable work of fiction, Donald Ray Pollock peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient lives of its residents.
Spanning a period from the mid-'60s to the late '90s, the linked stories that comprise Knockemstiff feature a cast of recurring characters who are woebegone, baffled, and depraved - but irresistibly, undeniably real. Rendered in the American vernacular with vivid imagery and a wry, dark sense of humor, these thwarted and sometimes violent lives jump off the page at the listener with inexorable force.
A father pumps his son full of steroids, so he can vicariously relive his days as a perpetual runner-up body builder. A psychotic rural recluse comes upon two siblings committing incest and feels compelled to take action. Donald Ray Pollock presents his characters and the sordid goings-on with a stern intelligence, a bracing absence of value judgments, and a refreshingly dark sense of bottom-dog humor.
With an artistic instinct honed on the works of Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews, Pollock offers a powerful work of fiction in the classic American vein. Knockemstiff is a genuine entry into the literature of place.
Audiobook Cast of Narrators:
"Real Life" read by Kirby Heyborne
"Dynamite Hole" read by Mark Bramhall
"Knockemstiff" read by Macleod Andrews
"Hair’s Fate" read by Andrew Eiden
"Pills" read by Kirby Heyborne
"Gianthomachy" read by David Garelick
"Schott’s Bridge" read by Matt Godfrey
"Lard" read by Macleod Andrews
"Fish Sticks" read by Dan Woren
"Bactine" read by Rob Shapiro
"Discipline" read by R.C. Bray
"Assailants" read by Dan Woren
"Rainy Sunday" read by Amy Landon
"Holler" read by Andrew Eiden
"I Start Over" read by Joe Ochman
Reseñas de la Crítica
“More engaging than any new fiction in years.... Knockemstiff gives us the impossible - fast, funny stories about the saddest people you’ll ever meet in fiction.” (Chuck Palahniuk)
“Pollock’s voice is fresh and full-throated.... His steely, serrated prose...calls to mind Harry Crews.” (The New York Times Book Review)
“Knockemstiff is a powerful, remarkable, exceptional book.... Pollock knows these people, what they want and think and feel, and he takes us there without flinching.” (Los Angeles Times)
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Phil Klay's Redeployment takes listeners to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos. Redeployment has become a classic in the tradition of war writing. Across nations and continents, Klay sets in devastating relief the two worlds a soldier inhabits: One of extremes and one of loss.
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A Must Read - Fantastic Heart Rendering Shorts
- De GH en 12-03-14
De: Phil Klay
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Where All Light Tends to Go
- De: David Joy
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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The area surrounding Cashiers, North Carolina, is home to people of all kinds, but the world that Jacob McNeely lives in is crueler than most. His father runs a methodically organized meth ring, with local authorities on the dime to turn a blind eye to his dealings. Having dropped out of high school and cut himself off from his peers, Jacob has been working for this father for years, all on the promise that his payday will come eventually.
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Perfection
- De David Shear en 03-09-15
De: David Joy
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Dare Me: Booktrack Edition
- A Novel
- De: Megan Abbott
- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and trusted lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad, feared and followed by the other girls - until the young new coach arrives. Cool and commanding, an emissary from the adult world just beyond their reach, Coach Colette French draws Addy and the other cheerleaders into her life.
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Good book, bad performance
- De Diana Hummel en 12-07-17
De: Megan Abbott
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The Paying Guests
- De: Sarah Waters
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 21 h y 29 m
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It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.
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Difference of Opinion
- De Mel en 12-17-14
De: Sarah Waters
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Blood Standard
- De: Laird Barron
- Narrado por: William DeMeritt
- Duración: 8 h y 23 m
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Isaiah Coleridge is a mob enforcer in Alaska - he's tough, seen a lot, and dished out more. But when he forcibly ends the money-making scheme of a made man, he gets in the kind of trouble that can lead to a bullet behind the ear. Saved by the grace of his boss and exiled to upstate New York, Isaiah begins a new life, a quiet life without gunshots or explosions. Except a teenage girl disappears, and Isaiah isn't one to let that slip by. And delving into the underworld to track this missing girl will get him exactly the kind of notice he was warned to avoid.
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Decent First Foray into Crime Fiction for Barron
- De Ross en 06-19-18
De: Laird Barron
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The Buddha in the Attic
- De: Julie Otsuka
- Narrado por: Samantha Quan, Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 3 h y 52 m
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In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of young Japanese brides, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers....
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Fascinating topic, irritating writing style
- De Lydia en 08-26-11
De: Julie Otsuka
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Come Closer
- De: Sara Gran
- Narrado por: Julie McKay
- Duración: 3 h y 40 m
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A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene insults. Amanda - a successful architect in a happy marriage - finds her life going off kilter by degrees. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she's doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. At night she dreams of a beautiful woman with pointed teeth on the shore of a blood-red sea.
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Don’t listen or read this book, use caution.
- De amyk0506 en 03-02-21
De: Sara Gran
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Mystic River
- De: Dennis Lehane
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 15 h y 24 m
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When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car drove up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened - something that ended their friendship and changed the boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay - demons that urge him to do horrific things. When Jimmy's daughter is murdered, Sean is assigned to the case.
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Punches you in the face!
- De DaWoolf en 11-11-14
De: Dennis Lehane
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Out
- A Novel
- De: Natsuo Kirino
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 18 h y 11 m
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This mesmerizing novel tells the story of a brutal murder in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works the night shift making boxed lunches strangles her abusive husband and then seeks the help of her coworkers to dispose of the body and cover up her crime. The coolly intelligent Masako emerges as the plot's ringleader but quickly discovers that this killing is merely the beginning, as it leads to a terrifying foray into the violent underbelly of Japanese society.
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Out...
- De Christopher en 06-24-16
De: Natsuo Kirino
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The Argonauts
- De: Maggie Nelson
- Narrado por: Maggie Nelson
- Duración: 4 h y 48 m
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Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, is an intimate portrayal of the complexities and joys of (queer) family making.
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A relaxing meditation on identity, gender and art
- De redhidari en 10-01-15
De: Maggie Nelson
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The Only Good Indians
- De: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrado por: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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From New York Times best-selling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a novel that is equal parts psychological horror and cutting social commentary on identity politics and the American-Indian experience. Fans of Jordan Peele and Tommy Orange will love this story as it follows the lives of four American-Indian men and their families, all haunted by a disturbing, deadly event that took place in their youth. Years later, they find themselves tracked by an entity bent on revenge, totally helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a vengeful way.
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this is the best book I've listened to maybe ever
- De Anthony en 07-15-20
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Bastard Out of Carolina
- De: Dorothy Allison
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Evans
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family - a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard- drinking men who shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly. At the heart of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a bastard child who observes the world around her with a mercilessly keen perspective.
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Not for the Faint of Heart
- De Carolyn en 12-31-12
De: Dorothy Allison
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Nothing but the Bones
- A Novel
- De: Brian Panowich
- Narrado por: Brian Troxell
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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In McFalls County, local crime boss Gareth Burroughs runs everything on the mountain. And Nelson “Nails” McKenna has been his enforcer since he was a teenager, though his heart's not really in the dirty work. Then one night in a local roadhouse, Nails goes too far, defending a woman, and even Burroughs’s reach can’t get him out of this one. With a dead body and countless witnesses, Nails and the woman become fugitives on the run, and unlikely partners.
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A wild ride!
- De Catherine N. Davis en 08-10-24
De: Brian Panowich
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The Lesser Dead
- De: Christopher Buehlman
- Narrado por: Christopher Buehlman
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live - and die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody - he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by night, and sleeping by day with others of his kind in the macabre labyrinth under the city's sidewalks.
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NICE GUYS NEARLY ALWAYS FINISH LAST
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 05-27-17
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Knockemstiff
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- Nathan R.
- 09-08-20
Delightful Misery
A magical rainbow of tales that include every color of sorrow, sadness, and fucking bleakness that is southern Ohio. I love Pollock's books. This time around finished off the trio of sweet devastatingly awesome novels. I can't wait for the next 1.
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- Stacie Duarte
- 03-08-22
Worth a listen
Saw a movie about this authors second book. Took a chance on this. Well written, vibrant characters, and story it's a variety of emotions.
multiple readers made the stories more dynamic.
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- Elizabeth
- 03-04-20
!!!!!
Great collection of shorts! This is my first experience with this author but definitely just the start- I'm now compelled to immediately find & read everything I can find by the guy! These stories were lean & mean, & I'm totally hooked! Ranging from bone-deep apathy to almost maniacal desperation, the stories are stark, sometimes brutal, in their portrayals of the people populating them, while making matter of fact certain subjects, behaviors, & situations that most people either are completely ignorant of or else avoid altogether. Understandably, as oftentimes they are uncomfortable reminders of the baser sides of human nature & glaringly showcase our species' unfortunately casual potential for overwhelming ugliness, while most of us would rather view these things as individualistic aberrations as opposed to the almost inevitable outcome of ignorance, neglect, abuse, poverty, isolation, etc that runs rampant thruou our history.
Personally, however, I have no qualms accepting that humans, for all their enormous potential for all things good, are just as capable of wallowing in the muck of everything opposite.
So while its easy to see how unflinchingly honest portrayals of human behavior prompt uncomfortable feelings for a lot of people, I would only suggest that they try to put that aside, & continue reading with the knowledge that these things are an actual reality for somebody today, & maybe take a moment to appreciate the differences in your own life.
Regardless, I for one, am glad to have come across this writer, & look forward to reading whatever else he's written. Thank you.
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- droid61
- 03-20-19
Interesting twist of fate
The summary indicated a series of stories loosely connected to each other; that's a interesting twist. Most of the stories are tragic and dark, but real enough. Narrators where very good. An enjoyable listen, though at time dark and depressing.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-10-19
WOW!!!!
Before I read this book I read The Devil All The Time,and I absolutely loved it.My favorite kinds of books are ones that you can’t stop thinking about after you finish it.That was true with Devil it was maybe the grittiest book I’ve ever read.I decided to give Knockemstiff a shot and it is INTENSE!!!Donald Ray Pollock may be my new favorite author.The narration in this book is top notch too
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- OathKeeper11B
- 03-04-19
Fiction?
Being from SE Ohio, this book borders on truth! This is exactly how life is here. The cold hard life of the people left behind by society in the foothills of the Appalachians.
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- Rick
- 07-09-19
American Quagmire
In the dead-end southern Ohio hollow called Knockemstiff, most characters would assume that their gray and gloomy lives could never improve. And they’d be right.
Drunk abusive fathers, abandoned mothers, delinquent teens on speed. Nobody in this collection of strangely seductive stories likes anybody else. They inhabit a world of white bread with baloney gravy, RC cola, and lard sandwiches, living in a perpetual fog of booze and drugs.
“The damp gray sky covered southern Ohio like the skin of a corpse. The landscape was a seemingly endless row of squat metal buildings full of cheap junk for sale—carpet remnants, used furniture, country crafts… but still, the cold air blowing through the windows was refreshing after a month spent penned up in the trailer.”
The fictional Knockemstiff in this collection of short stories figures prominently in Pollack’s first novel, “The Devil All the Time,” that takes some of the people and places and the same miserable circumstances into a spellbinding book.
Witness the lives of these unfortunates and feel better about your own, maybe because they are so vividly realistic. Although fiction, it is sad that these accounts are so grounded in the bleak reality of Appalachia.
An all-star cast of narrators gives “Knockemstiff” even more impact.
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- Don't waste your money
- 08-06-22
Fantastic White Trash Fiction
An amazing look into fucked up small town American life. Beautiful, haunting, and absolutely worth a listen.
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- Stephen
- 03-30-24
brilliant
puts me in the mind of a much much darker, more feral Spoon River Anthology Winesburg Ohio Etc as has been mentioned Cormac McCarthy comes to mind, nobody does bleak better than he does but this gentleman comes damn close.
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- Darwin8u
- 02-12-20
The Agony of Living It
"I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighted by the agony of living it."
- Donald Ray Pollock, "I Start Over" in Knockemstiff
Pollock's freshman effort is a series of short stories surrounding the Southern Ohio town of Knockemstiff (real town). The stories, like planets, orbit the dark sun of this sad, poor and pathetic American town. Each of the stories is like a bite from a rabid dog or a slap with a dirty hand. It is an infection and is hard to escape once read. It clings to the reader like a stink, like a nightmare, like a memory of corruption. Each of the stories seems to bounce between feeling a bit like an incestuous child of Churck Palahniuk and Flannery O'Connor delivered in the unwashed, chipped bathtub of Raymond Carver.
Here are the individual stories:
1. Real Life - ☠☠☠☠☠
2. Dynamite Hole - ☠☠☠
3. Knockemstiff - ☠☠☠☠
4. Hair's Fate - ☠☠☠
5. Pills - ☠☠☠☠☠
6. Giganthomachy - ☠☠☠☠☠
7. Schott's Bridge - ☠☠☠☠
8. Lard - ☠☠☠☠
9. Fish Sticks - ☠☠☠☠☠
10. Bactine - ☠☠☠☠☠
11. Discipline - ☠☠☠☠☠
12. Assailants - ☠☠☠
13. Rainy Sunday - ☠☠☠☠
14. Holler - ☠☠☠☠
15. I start over - ☠☠☠☠☠
16. Blessed - ☠☠☠
17. Honolulu - ☠☠☠☠
18. Fights - ☠☠☠☠☠
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