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The Absolutist
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- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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Audie Award Nominee, Best Solo Narration, 2013
It is September 1919: Twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the sister of Will Bancroft, the man he fought alongside during the Great War. But the letters are not the real reason for Tristan's visit. He can no longer keep a secret and has finally found the courage to unburden himself of it. As Tristan recounts the horrific details of what to him became a senseless war, he also speaks of his friendship with Will - from their first meeting on the training grounds at Aldershot to their farewell in the trenches of northern France. The intensity of their bond brought Tristan happiness and self-discovery as well as confusion and unbearable pain.
The Absolutist is a masterful tale of passion, jealousy, heroism, and betrayal set in one of the most gruesome trenches of France during World War I. This novel will keep listeners on the edge of their seats until its most extraordinary and unexpected conclusion, and it will stay with them long after they've finished.
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The Echo Chamber
- De: John Boyne
- Narrado por: Richard E. Grant
- Duración: 14 h y 38 m
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The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a 'national treasure' (his words); his wife, Beverley, a celebrated novelist; and their children, Nelson, Elizabeth, Achilles, various degrees of catastrophe waiting to happen. Together they will go on a journey of discovery through the Hogarthian jungle of the modern living where past presumptions count for nothing and carefully curated reputations can be destroyed in an instant.
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Delicious, Witty, Hysterical!!
- De Wendi en 09-04-21
De: John Boyne
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This House Is Haunted
- De: John Boyne
- Narrado por: Alison Larkin
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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When she arrives at the hall, shaken by an unsettling disturbance that occurred during her travels, she is greeted by the two children now in her care, Isabella and Eustace. There is no adult present to represent her mysterious employer, and the children offer no explanation. Later that night in her room, another terrifying experience further reinforces the sense that something is very wrong. From the moment Eliza rises the following morning, her every step seems dogged by a malign presence that lives within Gaudlin's walls.
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Well Read - Not Very Scary, Had Promise
- De Dorothy en 03-24-14
De: John Boyne
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The Heart's Invisible Furies
- A Novel
- De: John Boyne
- Narrado por: Stephen Hogan
- Duración: 21 h y 10 m
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Cyril Avery is not a real Avery - or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead.
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Outstanding. A Must listen.
- De Keith G en 09-04-17
De: John Boyne
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Peeling the Onion
- De: Gunter Grass
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 15 h y 28 m
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In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood through the late 1950s, when his book The Tin Drum was published. During the Second World War, Grass was drafted into the Waffen-SS. Taken prisoner by American forces, he spent the final weeks of the war in an American POW camp. After the war, Grass resolved to become an artist and moved to Paris, where he began to write the novel that would make him famous.
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A literary memoir that is maybe not for everyone
- De Grant en 09-06-13
De: Gunter Grass
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Noah Barleywater Runs Away
- De: John Boyne
- Narrado por: Andrew Sachs
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
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Eight-year-old Noah's problems seem easier to deal with if he doesn't think about them. So he runs away, taking an untrodden path through the forest. Before long, he comes across a shop. But this is no ordinary shop: It's a toyshop, full of the most amazing toys, and brimming with the most wonderful magic. And here Noah meets a very unusual toymaker. The toymaker has a story to tell, and it's a story of adventure and wonder, and broken promises. He takes Noah on a journey. A journey that will change his life.
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Brilliant Funny Magical Story
- De Kirk A Mann en 04-29-19
De: John Boyne
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A Saint from Texas
- De: Edmund White
- Narrado por: Barbara Barnes
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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Yvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far more dramatic and tragic fates. Just as an untold fortune of oil lies beneath their daddy’s land, both girls harbour their own secrets and dreams - ones that will carry them far from Texas and from each other. As the decades unfold, Yvonne will ascend the highest ranks of Parisian society as Yvette gives herself to a lifetime of worship and service in the streets of Jericó, Colombia.
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I disliked this book.
- De Artperson en 05-12-23
De: Edmund White
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Last Night
- Stories
- De: James Salter
- Narrado por: Lauren Fortgang, Kathe Mazur, Edoardo Ballerini, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 53 m
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From a writer whose every book is a literary event, a superbly accomplished work of fiction. Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion–by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating. In ten powerful stories, Salter portrays men and women in their most intimate moments. A book dealer faces the truth about his life–as it is and never will be again–when he is visited unexpectedly by his brash former girlfriend.
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An American master of the short story.
- De Melissa en 08-22-24
De: James Salter
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
- De: John Boyne
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
- Duración: 4 h y 57 m
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The story of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some information about the audiobook, but in this case we think that would spoil the listening. We think it's important that you start to listen without knowing what it is about.
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Absolutely Phenomenal!!!
- De Jensophie en 05-04-09
De: John Boyne
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Warlight
- A Novel
- De: Michael Ondaatje
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself - shadowed and luminous at once - we follow the story of 14-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war.
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It both entertains and teaches.
- De Kelly en 07-28-18
De: Michael Ondaatje
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Burma Sahib
- A Novel
- De: Paul Theroux
- Narrado por: Charlie Anson
- Duración: 17 h y 51 m
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At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would be trained for three years as a servant of the British Empire, overseeing the local policemen in Burma. Navigating the social, racial, and class politics of his fellow British at the same time as he learned the local languages and struggled to control his men would prove difficult enough. But doing all of this while grappling with his own self-worth, his sense that he was not cut out for this, is soon overwhelming for the young Blair.
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Glorious writing
- De Nina Jacobson en 02-21-24
De: Paul Theroux
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Shadow Country
- A New Rendering of the Watson Legend
- De: Peter Matthiessen
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 40 h y 20 m
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Inspired by a near-mythic event on the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the 20th century, Shadow Country re-imagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him, in a killing that obsessed his favorite son.
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A great American Novel
- De SHAWN en 02-15-09
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Southernmost
- De: Silas House
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
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In the aftermath of a flood that washes away much of a small Tennessee town, evangelical preacher Asher Sharp offers shelter to two gay men. In doing so, he starts to see his life anew - and risks losing everything: his wife, locked into her religious prejudices; his congregation, which shuns Asher after he delivers a passionate sermon in defense of tolerance; and his young son, Justin, caught in the middle of what turns into a bitter custody battle. With no way out but ahead, Asher takes Justin and flees to Key West, where he hopes to find his brother, Luke, whom he'd turned against years ago after Luke came out.
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Wonderful
- De Jane G. en 10-28-18
De: Silas House
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- Linden Thoburn
- 04-27-18
Heart wrenching and beautiful
This story leads us gracefully and slowly through the story of a soldier during the First World War. It is a gorgeous story of love, and revenge. It leads the reader to question the concepts of courage, principles, survival and happiness. This story will haunt me for some time.
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- William Kent
- 05-27-23
Beautiful Narration
I wrote a short review highly recommending the book the read several reviews critical of the narration. Well, obviously you can’t please everyone, but I thought the narration was perfect. Much of my enjoyment came from the beautiful narration. So, please, do not be put off by the critical reviews of the narrator! You will not regret getting the audible edition.
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- monica wolfson
- 05-18-21
Very gripping book
You are brought straight into WW1 , the training and the horrors, you feel for the narrator but you are angry with him too. Read it to see why. Chilling.
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- Autodidact
- 12-05-18
second listen...I loved it.
John Boyne. I want to be the writer you are. Barring that, I bless you for giving me the 10's of hours of reading and listening pleasure.
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- Rick
- 07-21-19
Secrets That Consume a Life
It’s worth being reminded now and then of the unspeakable barbarism that slaughtered so many of an entire generation in what came to be known as The Great War.
“I didn’t think it was all that Great,” muses Tristan Sadler, late in life. But he was a young soldier then, so young that he had to lie about his age. Soon he would have more secrets, painful ones, and as this story slips seamlessly back and forth over more than 60 years, they are steadily revealed. With a skill that is to be expected from the author of “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” we are hand-fed Tristan’s agonies one at a time, right up to the very end.
A spare, compact, wistful novel, skillfully read by Michael Maloney.
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- Lee Anne
- 09-28-23
Boyne’s heart and skill is unsurpassed
This is the last of John Boyne’s available audio books. I’ve listened to them all, which is sad for me. His stories are so varied and unique, so vivid, beautiful and absorbing. They are intelligent, well-researched and realistic. His characters are flawed and human, with the ability to wrench your heart. When The Absolutist ended, one had a feeling that this might be his own story, but the era makes that out of the question.
I don’t give five stars lightly - perhaps only six or seven - and I have listened to over two hundred books.
If you love novels that challenge your mind and your soul, without projection or superfluous descriptions, I urge you to read/listen to this one, and all of his others.
I’m a big fan.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-18-23
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loved it. I highly recommend I also applaud all involved and am very grateful to have been a participating audience of this touching story ❤️
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- Dennis
- 08-28-12
A Thin Red Line Between Love and Hate
WW1 has just begun and two English boys meet during basic training and become fast friends. Tristan lies about his age to enlist because he has been thrown out of his parental house with his father's condemnation that it would be best if he were killed by a German bullet. Will, the son of a vicar, enlists for patriotic reasons. The boys develop an emotional relationship that becomes strained when Will asks Tristan to support him in a point of principle. Tristan, the more pragmatic of the two, refuses because both he and WIll could be put into jeopardy if Will reveals what really happened to a prisoner of war.
John Boyne deftly straddles the line between cowardice and honor and love and hate. He leaves us stunned as we careen toward an ending so unexpected that I cannot get it our of my mind. This novel is a true tour de force.
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- RueRue
- 07-01-14
Heartbreaking and powerful
Would you listen to The Absolutist again? Why?
Yes, even knowing the ultimate outcome, this is nuanced and powerful story, and the narration was fabulous.
What did you like best about this story?
The narrator was really exceptional. I was absolutely drawn into the story, and the question of what constitutes courage.
Have you listened to any of Michael Maloney’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
The first performance that I've listened to. Loved his reading of the story.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
A very emotional story...I was so involved that there were times I felt like speaking directly to the characters. There is a sense of sadness that haunts the story.
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- H. Lewis
- 03-11-20
Life is seldom what we think it will be
I enjoyed that the characters were flawed and more life like. No heroes, just sorrow and pain.
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