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Grad student Will Dillard has largely buried memories of the summer he spent at a camp intended to "cure" homosexuality. But when he finds out a horror movie based on the camp is hitting theaters, he's forced to face his past - and his role in another camper's death. As he recounts the events surrounding his "failed rehabilitation", Will strikes out on an impromptu road trip back home to Mississippi, eventually returning to the abandoned campgrounds to solve the mysteries of that pivotal summer.
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A story full of heart and healing
- De ZippyBippy en 05-06-18
De: Nick White
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Emory's Gift
- De: W. Bruce Cameron
- Narrado por: W. Bruce Cameron
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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After 13-year-old Charlie Hall’s mother dies and his father retreats into the silence of grief, Charlie finds himself drifting lost and alone through the brutal halls of junior high school. But Charlie Hall is not entirely friendless. In the woods behind his house, Charlie is saved from a mountain lion by a grizzly bear, a species thought to be extinct in northern Idaho.And this very unusual bear will change Charlie’s life forever.
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Wanted to believe it was real
- De Carianti en 03-02-15
De: W. Bruce Cameron
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American Rust
- De: Philipp Meyer
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation-as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love-that arise from its loss. From local bars to train yards to prison, it is the story of two young men, bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia, and the beauty around them, who dream of a future beyond the factories and abandoned homes.
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A Web of Despair and Desperation
- De Darwin8u en 07-16-12
De: Philipp Meyer
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Tiger, Tiger
- A Memoir
- De: Margaux Fragoso
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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One summer day, Margaux Fragoso meets Peter Curran at the neighborhood swimming pool, and they begin to play. She is seven; he is 51. When Peter invites her and her mother to his house, the little girl finds a child’s paradise of exotic pets and an elaborate backyard garden. Her mother, beset by mental illness and overwhelmed by caring for Margaux, is grateful for the attention Peter lavishes on her, and he creates an imaginative universe for her, much as Lewis Carroll did for his real-life Alice.
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a weirdly loving diatribe against pervs.
- De Dane Flakeman en 05-21-11
De: Margaux Fragoso
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Finding Fish
- A Memoir
- De: Antwone Q. Fisher
- Narrado por: Thomas Penny
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment of his birth in prison to a single mother. He ultimately came to live with a foster family, where he endured near-constant verbal and physical abuse. In his midteens he escaped and enlisted in the navy, where he became a man of the world, raised by the family he created for himself. Finding Fish shows how, out of this unlikely mix of deprivation and hope, an artist was born.
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This book will not disappoint you.
- De Joseph en 10-16-16
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Stories
- All-New Tales
- De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, Al Sarrantonio - editor, Joe Hill, y otros
- Narrado por: Anne Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Katherine Kellgren, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 11 m
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The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
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Something for Everyone
- De Nicole en 05-24-17
De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, y otros
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Boy, Snow, Bird
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett, Carra Patterson
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty - the opposite of the life she' s left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she' d become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy' s daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white.
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For Literary Lovers
- De M. Shipe en 04-25-14
De: Helen Oyeyemi
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Welcome to the Monkey House
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: David Strathairn, Maria Tucci, Bill Irwin, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
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Classic Vonnegut
- De Michael Carrato en 08-17-06
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Shadow Show
- All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury
- De: Sam Weller - editor, Mort Castle - editor
- Narrado por: George Takei, Edward Herrmann, Kate Mulgrew, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
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Ray Bradbury - peerless storyteller, poet of the impossible, and one of America's most beloved authors - is a literary giant whose remarkable career spanned seven decades. Now 26 of today's most diverse and celebrated authors offer new short works in honor of the master; stories of heart, intelligence, and dark wonder from a remarkable range of creative artists.
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THE MAN WHO FORGOT RAY BRADBURY
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 05-27-17
De: Sam Weller - editor, y otros
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Old School
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Dan Cashman
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
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Determined to fit in at his New England prep school, the narrator has learned to mimic the bearing and manners of his adoptive tribe while concealing as much as possible about himself. His final year, however, unravels everything he’s achieved and steers his destiny in directions no one could have predicted.
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- De Surf en 11-18-20
De: Tobias Wolff
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In Pharaoh's Army
- Memories of the Lost War
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
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Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor, and mordant wit that made This Boy's Life a modern classic.
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Boring Waste of Time
- De Ethan en 08-21-22
De: Tobias Wolff
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A Childhood
- The Biography of a Place
- De: Harry Crews, Tobias Wolff - foreword
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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Harry Crews grew up as the son of a sharecropper in Georgia at a time when “the rest of the country was just beginning to feel the real hurt of the Great Depression but it had been living in Bacon County for years.” Yet what he conveys in this moving, brutal autobiography of his first six years of life is an elegiac sense of community and roots from a rural South that had rarely been represented in this way.
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Story rings true
- De Greg B en 07-26-22
De: Harry Crews, y otros
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The Night in Question
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 21 m
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A story of siblings and faith from short-story master Tobias Wolff. Frances has always been protective of her younger brother Frank. The children of a brutal father and a sick, defenseless mother, Frances fought to keep her brother safe. And throughout all of his adult failings – from drug addiction to near-fatal car crashes - she has stood by his side. Now Frank has found religion. Standing in his crisp white shirt and restrictive tie, he's eager to recount last Sunday's sermon to his older sister.
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wonderful story and story teller.
- De Wkndaftrthght en 01-19-23
De: Tobias Wolff
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Bullet in the Brain
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 13 m
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Anders is an angry, cynical man. A book critic known for his scathing reviews, he finds any excuse to dismiss, belittle, or insult. This afternoon is no more agitating than the next. Angers finds himself in a long line at the bank, waiting to reach a teller. Even after two men - wearing masks and carrying guns - take control of the building, Anders is unfazed. It's this behavior that lands him with a pistol against his stomach and a man screamingin his face. And when the bank robber, indignant over Anders' behavior, shoots the book critic in the head, his mind floats through the memories of his life, settling on one particular event....
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The Perfect Example
- De Sarah en 08-01-17
De: Tobias Wolff
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The Great Railway Bazaar
- De: Paul Theroux
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes - the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Hikari Super Express to Kyoto, and the Trans-Siberian Express - it describes the many places, cultures, sights and sounds he experienced and the fascinating people he met.
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Just about as good as it gets...
- De david d. en 03-27-11
De: Paul Theroux
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Old School
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Dan Cashman
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
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Determined to fit in at his New England prep school, the narrator has learned to mimic the bearing and manners of his adoptive tribe while concealing as much as possible about himself. His final year, however, unravels everything he’s achieved and steers his destiny in directions no one could have predicted.
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- De Surf en 11-18-20
De: Tobias Wolff
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In Pharaoh's Army
- Memories of the Lost War
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
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Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor, and mordant wit that made This Boy's Life a modern classic.
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Boring Waste of Time
- De Ethan en 08-21-22
De: Tobias Wolff
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A Childhood
- The Biography of a Place
- De: Harry Crews, Tobias Wolff - foreword
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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Harry Crews grew up as the son of a sharecropper in Georgia at a time when “the rest of the country was just beginning to feel the real hurt of the Great Depression but it had been living in Bacon County for years.” Yet what he conveys in this moving, brutal autobiography of his first six years of life is an elegiac sense of community and roots from a rural South that had rarely been represented in this way.
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Story rings true
- De Greg B en 07-26-22
De: Harry Crews, y otros
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The Night in Question
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 21 m
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A story of siblings and faith from short-story master Tobias Wolff. Frances has always been protective of her younger brother Frank. The children of a brutal father and a sick, defenseless mother, Frances fought to keep her brother safe. And throughout all of his adult failings – from drug addiction to near-fatal car crashes - she has stood by his side. Now Frank has found religion. Standing in his crisp white shirt and restrictive tie, he's eager to recount last Sunday's sermon to his older sister.
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wonderful story and story teller.
- De Wkndaftrthght en 01-19-23
De: Tobias Wolff
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Bullet in the Brain
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 13 m
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Anders is an angry, cynical man. A book critic known for his scathing reviews, he finds any excuse to dismiss, belittle, or insult. This afternoon is no more agitating than the next. Angers finds himself in a long line at the bank, waiting to reach a teller. Even after two men - wearing masks and carrying guns - take control of the building, Anders is unfazed. It's this behavior that lands him with a pistol against his stomach and a man screamingin his face. And when the bank robber, indignant over Anders' behavior, shoots the book critic in the head, his mind floats through the memories of his life, settling on one particular event....
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The Perfect Example
- De Sarah en 08-01-17
De: Tobias Wolff
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The Great Railway Bazaar
- De: Paul Theroux
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes - the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Hikari Super Express to Kyoto, and the Trans-Siberian Express - it describes the many places, cultures, sights and sounds he experienced and the fascinating people he met.
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Just about as good as it gets...
- De david d. en 03-27-11
De: Paul Theroux
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Our Story Begins
- New and Selected Stories
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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Wolff here returns with fresh revelations - about biding one's time, or experiencing first love, or burying one's mother - that come to a variety of characters in circumstances at once everyday and extraordinary. A retired Marine enrolls in college while her son trains for Iraq. A lawyer takes a difficult deposition. An American in Rome indulges the Gypsy who's picked his pocket.
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Great
- De chris en 04-11-08
De: Tobias Wolff
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
- De: Raymond Carver
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 3 h y 53 m
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In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman, Raymond Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one's way through the dark.
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Great stories, awful performance
- De Victor Capo en 02-14-19
De: Raymond Carver
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Fierce Attachments
- A Memoir
- De: Vivian Gornick
- Narrado por: Vivian Gornick
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
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In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the principal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the early death of her husband.
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Blunt, vivid, and engaging!
- De Aliza en 06-14-24
De: Vivian Gornick
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The Tender Bar
- A Memoir
- De: J. R. Moehringer
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper, Daniel Thomas May
- Duración: 16 h y 16 m
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J.R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J.R. spoke his first word. Sitting on the stoop, pressing an ear to the radio, J.R. would strain to hear in that plummy baritone the secrets of masculinity and identity. Though J.R.'s mother was his world, his rock, he craved something more, something faintly and hauntingly audible only in The Voice.
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I Love this Book
- De Corey en 07-30-21
De: J. R. Moehringer
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Speak Memory
- An Autobiography Revisited
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov’s life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and The Luhzin Defense.
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Speak, Mnemosyne!
- De Darwin8u en 08-09-12
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Autobiography of a Face
- De: Lucy Grealy
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the taunts of classmates. In her memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength with considerable wit. Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special, Grealy captures with unique insight what it is like as a child and young adult to be torn between two warring impulses.
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Pathos and Resilience
- De eBrightwing en 11-15-18
De: Lucy Grealy
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The Woman Warrior
- Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
- De: Maxine Hong Kingston
- Narrado por: Ming-Na
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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Acclaimed author Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior broke new ground when it was first published 35 years ago, weaving autobiography, history, folklore, and fantasy in to a candid and revelatory story about the daughter of Chinese immigrants in mid-20th century California.
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Hilariously Vicious; Touchingly Empathetic
- De Horace en 08-28-11
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All Over But the Shoutin'
- De: Rick Bragg
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 2 h y 41 m
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This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a hard-drinking man with a murderous temper and the habit of running out on the people who needed him most.
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ABRIDGED
- De Amazon Customer en 03-17-16
De: Rick Bragg
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The Liars' Club
- A Memoir
- De: Mary Karr
- Narrado por: Mary Karr
- Duración: 14 h y 12 m
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The Liars’ Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr’s comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger’s—a hard-drinking daddy, a sister who can talk down the sheriff at age twelve, and an oft-married mother whose accumulated secrets threaten to destroy them all.
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Awful narration
- De JG, Shreveport, LA en 12-10-23
De: Mary Karr
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- A Book for All and None
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Common - translator
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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Composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is the most famous and influential work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The work is a philosophical novel in which the character of Zarathustra, a religious prophet-like figure, delivers a series of lessons and sermons in a Biblical style that articulate the central ideas of Nietzsche's mature thought.
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Great book, poor audio performance
- De Stephen en 03-23-13
De: Friedrich Nietzsche, y otros
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The Sound and the Fury
- De: William Faulkner
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 51 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
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Look Homeward, Angel
- De: Thomas Wolfe
- Narrado por: Scott Sowers
- Duración: 26 h y 18 m
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The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving are fueled by a prodigious appetite for drink.
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One Of The Gret Novels Of The 20th Century
- De Eric en 02-22-09
De: Thomas Wolfe
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- Edward
- 07-04-16
A Sui generis masterwork....
Sui generis yet the begetter of the a new genre of memoirs-some excellent,many self-indulgent masturbation.
Mary Kerr's "The Liar's Club" is the woman's cognate.
Wolff's brother,Geoffrey's "The Duke of Deception " is the indespesa ble bookend to TBL.
Individually and together they changed my children's lives and deeply enriched mine.
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- Dennis M. Boyer
- 06-08-23
Loved It!
It was like returning to my boyhood. Love his writing and the narration is especially good.
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- AFox
- 09-04-18
Nooooot eeeeeeeeven -Jose Orcozco, 2018
Im a slow reader so audiobook is good.
Lmao xd noob jk ur mum kek
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- Paul Kranz
- 12-21-16
Classic memior
This helped invent a genre and and pioneered a path to publication for authors like David Sadaris and Tom Bissell. A must read for anyone who appreciates memoirs.
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- FUN AND GAMES
- 07-17-23
a story of a life
a story of someone's growing up and living their life. I enjoyed the book better than the movie. Tobias wolf and a hard struggling life. if you've read the book. see the movie.
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- jamie zinober
- 09-25-12
pretty good
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
it was a good book, but not one that I had to listen to all the time.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
no
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- LoLi from Texas
- 10-04-17
Poor narration ruins book
Mistakenly purchased memoir NOT read by the author. The narration was too acty-y; ineptly tried to sound frightened, or naive or whatever sentiments the narrator believed the author was conveying. Just let the words do their job. You don't have to speak in a falsetto to sound like a 13-year-old girl (as the narrator did to sound like the author's step-sister). The narration ruined to book; couldn't finish listening. Too bad.
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- Always Honest
- 04-25-17
*A Life Full of Abuse and Yet Optimism*
The story begins with 10 year old Tobias Wolfe and his mother, who is divorced from his father, living with another man. They leave his home because of abuse and move on down the road to greener pastures. Toby changes his name to Jack and this book tells of their adventures. Jack was certainly not a model child. He was very adept at lying, stealing, cussing and skipping school, getting in fights with other boys, and even forging checks. The only subject that interested him was writing. In an attempt to calm his rebel spirit, his mother sends Jack to live with a man who has proposed to her. This proves to be a mistake as the man is abusive to him. However, when questioned, Jack does not reveal these things to his mother and so she gets married again. Both she and Jack are unhappy. It takes them several years to escape this relationship. Through it all Jack entertains the idea of going to prep school and to college, even though he has never been a good student. He manages to get accepted, and to accomplish his goals. Always an optimist Jack succeeded where most would have failed.
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Stunningly good
There is something amazing about this audibook. It's the right mix of narrator and author. I saw the film version of this a long time ago and thought it might prevent me from liking the book version. The book is even better. Tobias Wolff writes in a very spare, very brooding style. This book really did its job of transporting me to a different time and place in a situation I will never be in, myself. I also highly recommend "our Story Begins," by the same author. That was what got me interested in this book, and I thought those short stories from 'Story Begins,' were great. It's a strange thing that people who write books like Twilight are famous and no one has heard of Tobias Wolff, who unquestionably creates art with what he does.
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- Lowroad
- 09-25-12
What's the point?
Nice story, well read, but the boy's life was not all that interesting. And in the end i was left thinking, why did i read this? No conclusion, nothing gained, nothing learned. Like watching water boil.
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