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Chronic City
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- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 14 h y 59 m
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Towards the end of Chronic City, Lethem's skill with language is finally matched with his control of the plot, and the two strands gel, bringing a sense of urgency to the quest for the real. Dafydd Phillips
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Like Manhattan itself, Jonathan Lethem's masterpiece is beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, devastating and antic, a stand-in for the whole world and a place utterly unique.
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- De Angela Adams en 01-29-19
De: Sana Krasikov
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The Sky Is Yours
- A Novel
- De: Chandler Klang Smith
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
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In the burned-out, futuristic city of Empire Island, three young people navigate a crumbling metropolis constantly under threat from a pair of dragons that circle the skies. When violence strikes, reality star Duncan Humphrey Ripple V, the spoiled scion of the metropolis' last dynasty; Baroness Swan Lenore Dahlberg, his tempestuous, death-obsessed betrothed; and Abby, a feral beauty he discovered tossed out with the trash; are forced to flee everything they've ever known.
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a hot mess
- De Alison en 04-09-19
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The Curiosity
- A Novel
- De: Stephen Kiernan
- Narrado por: Kate Udall, Erik Bergmann, George Guidall
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
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Dr. Kate Philo makes a breathtaking discovery in the Arctic: the body of a man buried deep in the ice. Heedless of the potential consequences, Kate's boss orders that the frozen man be reanimated. As the man begins to regain his memories, the team learns that he was - is - a judge, Jeremiah Rice. Thrown together by fate, Kate and Jeremiah grow closer. But the clock is ticking and Jeremiah's new life is slipping away. Kate must decide how far she is willing to go to protect the man she has come to love.
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Almost perfect
- De ellegreenland en 04-14-14
De: Stephen Kiernan
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Smoke and Whispers
- De: Mick Herron
- Narrado por: Julia Franklin
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as Private Detective Zoë Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zoë kill herself, or did one of her old cases come back to haunt her? Coincidence is an excuse that soon appears pretty unconvincing. Sarah can’t leave until she’s found the answers to her questions, however dangerous they might turn out to be.
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Not Slough house
- De Matt en 05-19-24
De: Mick Herron
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Standing by the Wall
- The Collected Slough House Novellas
- De: Mick Herron
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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Espionage. Blackmail. Revenge. Cunning. Slapstick. State secrets dating back to the fall of the Berlin Wall. All this and more in a tight package of five novellas by Mick Herron, CWA Gold Dagger-winning author of Slow Horses.
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More Please
- De Katy en 01-27-23
De: Mick Herron
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The Snow Garden
- De: Christopher Rice
- Narrado por: James Daniels
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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It is more than just the late November weather that has cast a chill over the campus of Atherton University. When the wife of respected professor Eric Eberman is killed in a tragic accident, his secret student lover, Randall Stone, fears the professor tried to avert career suicide by committing homicide. Or do the dead woman’s haunting last words point to an even more damning crime? Fearing the truth, Randall digs into his lover’s hidden history.
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Murder, Mystery and Mayhem at it's best!
- De Tammy M en 11-30-14
De: Christopher Rice
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Amsterdam
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
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The best-selling author of Atonement and Enduring Love, Ian McEwan is known as one of contemporary fiction’s most acclaimed writers. This Booker Prize-winning novel by McEwan finds two men connecting at the funeral of their ex-lover. Distressed by how she was slowly destroyed by an illness, the two make a pact to save each other from enduring such a fate.
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Make something, and die.
- De Darwin8u en 02-07-17
De: Ian McEwan
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Blackmail, My Love
- A Murder Mystery
- De: Katie Gilmartin
- Narrado por: Eva Kaminsky
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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Josie O'Conner travels to San Francisco in 1951 to locate her gay brother, a private dick investigating a blackmail ring targeting lesbians and gay men. Jimmy's friends claim that just before he disappeared he became a rat, informing the cops on the bar community. Josie adopts Jimmy's trousers and wingtips, battling to clear his name, halt the blackmailers, and exact justice for the many queer corpses.
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Fine Writing, Beautifully Read
- De CJ en 06-14-15
De: Katie Gilmartin
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The Damnation Game
- De: Clive Barker
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 16 h
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Marty Strauss, a gambling addict recently released from prison, is hired to be the personal bodyguard of Joseph Whitehead, one of the wealthiest men in the world. The job proves more complicated and dangerous than he thought, however, as Marty soon gets caught up in a series of supernatural events involving Whitehead, his daughter (who is a heroin addict), and a devilish man named Mamoulian, with whom Whitehead made a Faustian bargain many years earlier, during World War II.
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Damned If You Do
- De Wag The Fox en 04-05-14
De: Clive Barker
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French Exit
- A Novel
- De: Patrick deWitt
- Narrado por: Lorna Raver
- Duración: 6 h y 53 m
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Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there’s the Price’s aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral litigator and world-class cad whose gruesome tabloid death rendered Frances and Malcolm social outcasts. Putting penury and pariahdom behind them, the family decides to cut their losses and head for the exit.
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deWitt deLivers Eccentric Quirky Characters
- De Liberty en 09-23-18
De: Patrick deWitt
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White Noise
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event", a lethal black chemical cloud floats over the Gladneys' lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys - radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings - pulsing with life yet suggesting something ominous.
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Designed to be analyzed by an English class
- De RI in Canada en 10-15-16
De: Don DeLillo
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The Conspiracy Club
- De: Jonathan Kellerman
- Narrado por: Rob Kahn
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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When his brief, passionate romance with nurse Jocelyn Banks is cut short by her kidnapping and brutal murder, Dr. Jeremy Carrier is left emotionally devastated, haunted by his lover's grisly demise and warily eyed by police still seeking a prime suspect in the unsolved slaying. To escape the pain, he buries himself in his work as staff psychologist at City Central Hospital, only to be drawn deeper into a waking nightmare when more women turn up murdered in the same gruesome fashion as Jocelyn Banks.
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Disappointin Departure
- De Tom en 12-03-03
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The Lost Ones
- A Novel
- De: Sheena Kamal
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for 15 years - since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren't looking, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope. A biracial product of the foster system, transient, homeless, scarred by a past filled with pain and violence, Nora knows intimately what happens to vulnerable girls on the streets.
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Would make a great movie!
- De Shay en 08-27-17
De: Sheena Kamal
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Outside Looking In
- A Novel
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: Johnathan McClain
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology PhD student, and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug’s possibilities such that their “research” becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a freewheeling exploration of mind expansion, group dynamics, and communal living.
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STORYTELLING AS CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING
- De Christopher Meeks en 05-25-19
De: T. C. Boyle
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
- A Novel
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: Peter Riegert
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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For 60 years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the federal district of Sitka, a temporary safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the district is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end.
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Didn't finish...
- De Ann E O'Connor en 10-16-17
De: Michael Chabon
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The Fortress of Solitude
- De: Jonathan Lethem
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 18 h y 34 m
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This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something that will become known as "gentrification."
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A smorgasbord of language
- De Jonathan en 10-21-03
De: Jonathan Lethem
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Brooklyn Crime Novel
- A Novel
- De: Jonathan Lethem
- Narrado por: Geoffrey Cantor
- Duración: 13 h
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On the streets of 1970s Brooklyn, a daily ritual goes down: the dance. Money is exchanged, belongings surrendered, power asserted. The promise of violence lies everywhere, a currency itself. For these children, Black, brown, and white, the street is a stage in shadow. And in the wings hide the other players: parents; cops; renovators; landlords; those who write the headlines, the histories, and laws; those who award this neighborhood its name. The rules appear obvious at first. But in memory’s prism, criminals and victims may seem to trade places.
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Not Lethem’s Best
- De Dr. Flower en 01-20-24
De: Jonathan Lethem
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Gun, with Occasional Music
- De: Jonathan Lethem
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems - not the least of which are the rabbit in his waiting room and the trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is an ominous place where evolved animals function as members of society, the police monitor citizens by their karma levels, and mind-numbing drugs such as Forgettol and Acceptol are all the rage. In this brave new world, Metcalf has been shadowing the wife of an affluent doctor, perhaps falling a little in love with her at the same time.
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SF SLAMS into a hard-boiled, noir pulp!
- De Darwin8u en 04-18-12
De: Jonathan Lethem
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Dept. of Speculation
- De: Jenny Offill
- Narrado por: Jenny Offill
- Duración: 3 h y 9 m
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Jenny Offill’s heroine, referred to in these pages as simply “the wife”, once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes - a colicky baby, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions - the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts.
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Sparse looping beautiful
- De diane berry en 05-01-24
De: Jenny Offill
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Motherless Brooklyn
- De: Jonathan Lethem
- Narrado por: Geoffrey Cantor
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel. Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable.
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You're Not the Only Freak Show in Town!
- De Dave en 05-01-14
De: Jonathan Lethem
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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
- De: Maile Meloy
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter, Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 5 h y 9 m
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Eleven unforgettable new stories demonstrate the emotional power and the clean, assured style that have earned Meloy praise from critics and devotion from readers and listeners. Propelled by a terrific instinct for storytelling, and concerned with the convolutions of modern love and the importance of place, this collection is about the battlefields—and fields of victory—that exist in seemingly harmless spaces, in kitchens and living rooms and cars.
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The beautiful ache of the unattainable
- De Ryan en 01-16-14
De: Maile Meloy
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The Fortress of Solitude
- De: Jonathan Lethem
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 18 h y 34 m
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This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something that will become known as "gentrification."
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A smorgasbord of language
- De Jonathan en 10-21-03
De: Jonathan Lethem
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Brooklyn Crime Novel
- A Novel
- De: Jonathan Lethem
- Narrado por: Geoffrey Cantor
- Duración: 13 h
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On the streets of 1970s Brooklyn, a daily ritual goes down: the dance. Money is exchanged, belongings surrendered, power asserted. The promise of violence lies everywhere, a currency itself. For these children, Black, brown, and white, the street is a stage in shadow. And in the wings hide the other players: parents; cops; renovators; landlords; those who write the headlines, the histories, and laws; those who award this neighborhood its name. The rules appear obvious at first. But in memory’s prism, criminals and victims may seem to trade places.
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Not Lethem’s Best
- De Dr. Flower en 01-20-24
De: Jonathan Lethem
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Gun, with Occasional Music
- De: Jonathan Lethem
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems - not the least of which are the rabbit in his waiting room and the trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is an ominous place where evolved animals function as members of society, the police monitor citizens by their karma levels, and mind-numbing drugs such as Forgettol and Acceptol are all the rage. In this brave new world, Metcalf has been shadowing the wife of an affluent doctor, perhaps falling a little in love with her at the same time.
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SF SLAMS into a hard-boiled, noir pulp!
- De Darwin8u en 04-18-12
De: Jonathan Lethem
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Dept. of Speculation
- De: Jenny Offill
- Narrado por: Jenny Offill
- Duración: 3 h y 9 m
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Jenny Offill’s heroine, referred to in these pages as simply “the wife”, once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes - a colicky baby, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions - the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts.
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Sparse looping beautiful
- De diane berry en 05-01-24
De: Jenny Offill
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Motherless Brooklyn
- De: Jonathan Lethem
- Narrado por: Geoffrey Cantor
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel. Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable.
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You're Not the Only Freak Show in Town!
- De Dave en 05-01-14
De: Jonathan Lethem
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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
- De: Maile Meloy
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter, Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 5 h y 9 m
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Eleven unforgettable new stories demonstrate the emotional power and the clean, assured style that have earned Meloy praise from critics and devotion from readers and listeners. Propelled by a terrific instinct for storytelling, and concerned with the convolutions of modern love and the importance of place, this collection is about the battlefields—and fields of victory—that exist in seemingly harmless spaces, in kitchens and living rooms and cars.
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The beautiful ache of the unattainable
- De Ryan en 01-16-14
De: Maile Meloy
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The Feral Detective
- A Novel
- De: Jonathan Lethem
- Narrado por: Zosia Mamet
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She’s looking for her friend’s missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist to help. A laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer, Heist intrigues the sarcastic and garrulous Phoebe. Reluctantly, he agrees to help. The unlikely pair navigates the enclaves of desert-dwelling vagabonds and finds Arabella is in serious trouble - caught in the middle of a violent standoff that only Heist, mysteriously, can end.
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Ugh
- De Mike in Dallas en 11-17-18
De: Jonathan Lethem
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Intimacies
- A Novel
- De: Katie Kitamura
- Narrado por: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She's drawn into simmering personal dramas: Her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but still entangled in his marriage. Her friend Jana witnesses a seemingly random act of violence, a crime the interpreter becomes increasingly obsessed with as she befriends the victim's sister. And she's pulled into controversy when she’s asked to interpret for a former president accused of war crimes.
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A Serious Book
- De "janpetrow" en 07-23-21
De: Katie Kitamura
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The Savage Detectives
- A Novel
- De: Roberto Bolaño
- Narrado por: Eddie Lopez, Armando Durán
- Duración: 26 h y 57 m
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The late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño has been called the García Marquez of his generation. The Savage Detectives is a hilarious and sexy, meandering and melancholy, companionable and complicated road trip through Mexico City, Barcelona, Israel, Liberia, and finally the desert of northern Mexico. It is the first of Bolaño's two giant works, with 2666, to be translated into English and is already being hailed as a masterpiece.
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Bolaño Poetic Gyre
- De Darwin8u en 11-14-14
De: Roberto Bolaño
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H Is for Hawk
- De: Helen Macdonald
- Narrado por: Helen Macdonald
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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When Helen MacDonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer captivated by hawks since childhood, she'd never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators: the goshawk. But in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral anger mirrored her own.
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Mabel The Hawk--The Fire That Burned The Hurts Away
- De Sara en 04-09-15
De: Helen Macdonald
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The Flamethrowers
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Kushner
- Narrado por: Rachel Kushner
- Duración: 15 h y 27 m
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Reno, so-called because of the place of her birth, comes to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity—artists colonize a deserted and industrial SoHo, stage actions in the East Village, blur the line between life and art. Reno is submitted to a sentimental education of sorts—by dreamers, poseurs, and raconteurs in New York and by radicals in Italy, where she goes with her lover to meet his estranged and formidable family.
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Recommended
- De smith en 03-30-23
De: Rachel Kushner
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Girl in Landscape
- De: Jonathan Lethem
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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At the age of 13, Pella Marsh emigrates with her family to the Planet of the Archbuilders. These enigmatic aborigines have names like Lonely Dumptruck and Hiding Kneel, and a civilization that baffles and frightens their human visitors. As the spikily independent Pella becomes an uneasy envoy between two species, Girl in Landscape deftly interweaves themes of exploration and otherness, loss, and sexual awakening.
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Wonderful novel, horrendous audio book
- De Grant Hayslip en 03-13-18
De: Jonathan Lethem
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
- De: Marisha Pessl
- Narrado por: Emily Janice Card
- Duración: 21 h y 38 m
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This is a darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood spent moving from one academic outpost to another with her father, Blue is clever and possessed of a vast lexicon of knowledge. But when a drowning and the shocking death of a teacher lead to a confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural references to guide - or misguide - her.
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Over 21 Hours of Bliss...
- De Jeanie en 01-12-07
De: Marisha Pessl
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The Arrest
- De: Jonathan Lethem
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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The Arrest isn't post-apocalypse. It isn't a dystopia. It isn't a utopia. It's just what happens when much of what we take for granted - cars, guns, computers and airplanes, for starters - stops working.... Before the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in LA. An old college friend and writing partner, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum, had become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. That didn't hurt.
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As She Climbed Across the Table
- De: Jonathan Lethem
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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Philip is in love with Alice. As the novel opens, he is beginning to lose her. Not to another man, as he fears, but to, literally, nothing. Alice is a physicist, and a team at the University where both she and Philip work has created a hole, a vacuum, a doorway of nothingness inside the laboratory. They call it "Lack". Alice becomes obsessed with Lack, as Philip is obsessed by Alice.
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Contender: Most Punchable Protagonist of the Year
- De Joe en 08-10-16
De: Jonathan Lethem
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Dissident Gardens
- A Novel
- De: Jonathan Lethem
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 16 h y 28 m
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At the center of Jonathan Lethem’s superb new novel stand two extraordinary women. Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist and mercurial tyrant who terrorizes her neighborhood and her family with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her brilliant and willful daughter, Miriam, is equally passionate in her activism, but flees Rose’s suffocating influence and embraces the Age of Aquarius counterculture of Greenwich Village. Both women cast spells that entrance or enchain the men in their lives....
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Not for me
- De JV en 09-19-13
De: Jonathan Lethem
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Mayflower
- A Story of Courage, Community, and War
- De: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals in his spellbinding new book, the true story of the Pilgrims is much more than the well-known tale of piety and sacrifice; it is a 55-year epic that is at once tragic, heroic, exhilarating, and profound.
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Fascinating book about a little-understood time
- De John M en 02-04-07
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2666
- De: Roberto Bolaño
- Narrado por: John Lee, Armando Durán, G. Valmont Thomas, y otros
- Duración: 39 h y 15 m
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Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa - a fictional Juárez - on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The Best Book I Read or Listened to in 2009
- De William en 01-05-10
De: Roberto Bolaño
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- Midwesterner
- 02-04-16
Very Original
This was a very refreshing bit of something completely new and different. I bit surreal, even. Motherless Brooklyn is one of my all time favorites. Lethem is brilliant with making topics in philosophy easy for the likes of you and me to ponder on by using quirky, brilliant, damaged or even ubernormal characters in his work. Really clever and fun.
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- Scott
- 04-18-12
A Futuristic Look at Hipsters in Manhattan
What did you love best about Chronic City?
Excellent dialogue, great characters, and the interesting but obscure (probably to most?) pop-cultural references.
Who was your favorite character and why?
I didn't have one. I thought the characters were great overall but no particular stand-outs for me.
Which character – as performed by Mark Deakins – was your favorite?
I don't have a favorite here. I thought the characterization was strong overall.
If you could take any character from Chronic City out to dinner, who would it be and why?
I'd probably go with none. These are more the types of characters I would rather enjoy reading about than hanging out with.
Any additional comments?
'Chronic City'' is somewhat of a mysterious parallel vision of Manhattan's Upper East Side. The story is full of humor and is populated with a cast of young, off-beat, and exceptionally named characters. There's little in the way of narrative but it's a highly entertaining listen as the story is loaded with obscure film and pop culture references, a good deal of dry humor, a touch of science fiction, and strong dialogue. This is literary fiction, so it's not going to be for everyone, but for those seeking this type of mix it should be a fun listen.
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- Andrew Underwood
- 01-11-13
A New Favorite
I read Lethem's article "The Ecstasy of Influence" for Harper's, and was very excited by the exploration of thought surrounding contemporary artistic appropriation, updating Howard Bloom. That article lead me here to "Chronic City." I wasn't disappointed. In fact, this has become one of my favorite audiobooks. The grand ideas woven into a fun narrative peppered with myriad obscure cultural references makes this is the kind of book that I find hugely satisfying.
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- Jackie
- 11-15-11
the boomer generation Bellow
This is an excellent performance rich with texture and nuance. I consider Lethem up there in the genre of one Saul Bellow. Boomer Bellow. Nice find.
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- Jeff Lacy
- 08-08-18
Vivid and intelligently original
Lethem, with Chronin City, writes a vivid character driven story that is refreshingly original, intelligently witty and observant, tight and edgy dialogue, and with a strange theme that our lives are all about distractions, signified by the novel’s interweaving of a purported tiger lurking around New York City unseen, the news following the lives of astronauts stranded on the space station because of Chinese space mines, and the personal story of the former child actor, protagonist, Chase’s girlfriend Janice Trumbull being one of those astronauts. This is as much about an ensemble of character round Perkins Tooth, a former rock critic. who is obsessed by Marlon Brando, and chaldron (pottery) photo then hologram, that propels the plot and brings the story to its strange, almost conspiracy theory denouement. This is an engaging story with interesting characters that are appealing due to their eccentricities, foibles, backgrounds, obsessions.
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- Bobby
- 01-21-11
Don't listen to the naysayers!
What's with the negative reviews? I loved this book, and I loved the performance. I felt at home in Lathem's imaginary world. Of course, I felt Chronic City, with its quirky adventures and bizzarro NYC, is more in sync with folks like Eileen Myles and Ted Berrigan and Patti Smith Perhaps than Jonathan Franzen's sad despairing FREEDOM riders. Oh well. For me I'm glad I didn't listen to the naysayers. I would have missed quite a ride. Or whatever it was.
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- Golanka
- 07-26-17
What is truth?
This book deals with the question of truth. It is told from a very specific perspective--an ex-child-actor-star living on the Upper East Side of Manhattan--but deals with a universal topic (assuming the universe cares about truth).
This is not a book for those looking for plot. It is about experiences, and is itself an interesting experience. Jonathan Letham has a great style that kept me interested in his words regardless of what they described.
Mark Deakins is a great narrator. He was able to create and maintain specific voices for each character, and obviously prepared well...he always had the right tone when reading dialogue, as opposed to some who, reaching the end of the dialogue, realize that the tone should have been sarcastic, tired, bored, etc. only after reaching the end of the line.
This is a book that makes you (or at least me) think about it even weeks after finishing it. I'd probably rate it 4.5 if I could add half a star.
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- Susan C. S.
- 10-31-09
When in doubt, don't.
This book got good and bad reviews. Believe the bad ones.
I rarely give up on an audiobook once I've paid for it, but with this one I'd rather listen to nothing. Pure unrelieved inanity. Sorry to say this, because I loved The Fortress of Solitude.
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- Richard
- 05-06-11
Is it possible to give a negative rating
I listen to 3-4 audio books a month and I have been listening to them for 10+ years, this is among the worst if not the WORST. Its a total waste of time. So, boring and almost self-indulgent that I would rather do just about anything else!
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- Lisa
- 05-27-10
Blech
This is the first audiobook review I've been compelled to make...after a promising opening paragraph, this book went downhill. It's so New York-centric that it's almost incomprehensible. Too bad. It had promising pieces. Sadly they were buried under a long, unnecessary non-plot. With heavy editing, there might even be a story here.
Not worth my precious credits.
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