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Godwin
- A Novel
- De: Joseph O'Neill
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton, Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 22
Mark Wolfe, a brilliant if self-thwarting technical writer, lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter. His half-brother Geoff, born and raised in the United Kingdom, is a desperate young soccer agent. He pulls Mark across the ocean into a scheme to track down an elusive prospect known only as “Godwin”—an African teenager Geoff believes could be the next Lionel Messi.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Netherland.
- De Amazon Customer en 10-31-24
- Godwin
- A Novel
- De: Joseph O'Neill
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton, Kirby Heyborne
Not Netherland.
Revisado: 10-31-24
I had loved O’Neill’s prior novel Netherland. It was fast paced, insightful about a subtle issue of hope and energy in the face of the realities of low skilled immigrants living with grace in spite of the multi-generational ladder they were painfully submitting to climb. I stopped listening about 25% into Godwin because its style and spirit were so distant from what I had come to expect. Maybe just a mismatch between the ground the author now wanted to explore and my nostalgia,, but the gap was too wide for me to navigate. By the way, what most remains with me from the audible experience was my deep dislike of the reader’s attempt to replicate the various accents of different characters portrayed across social and geographic landscapes as if we were listening to conversations between these (stereotyped) characters. It probably intensified the speed with which I figuratively closed the book.
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