Jean Tepperman
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Golden Age
- A Novel
- De: Jane Smiley
- Narrado por: Lorelei King
- Duración: 17 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 108
A lot can happen in one hundred years, as Jane Smiley shows to dazzling effect in her Last Hundred Years trilogy. But as Golden Age, its final installment, opens in 1987, the next generation of Langdons face economic, social, political—and personal—challenges unlike anything their ancestors have encountered before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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brilliant and moving masterpiece
- De Jean Tepperman en 12-17-15
- Golden Age
- A Novel
- De: Jane Smiley
- Narrado por: Lorelei King
brilliant and moving masterpiece
Revisado: 12-17-15
The whole trilogy gives a brilliant, incisive, sympathetic, unflinching, and amazingly complex picture of white middle class America from 1920 to 2020. The characters are fully drawn and engaging. The personal lives and varied journeys of four generations of a family starting on an Iowa farm present a panoramic and developmental account of social, economic, political, and cultural history. The story ends just a little farther down the road than we are now, brilliantly detailing how we arrived at our current economic, political, and environmental peril. At the same time the exquisitely sensitive descriptions of life stages -- infancy, adolescence, marriage, work, and old age -- are deeply moving. This is trilogy makes me wish I was still a teacher. I would love to teach a full-year course on the history of the last 100 years using this as the main text with student reports on what she left out (mainly the experiences of people of color and working class, also a little of conventional "history" thrown in). I can't remember reading anything I thought was this great, at least not for a long time
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Alif the Unseen
- De: G. Willow Wilson
- Narrado por: Sanjiv Jhaveri
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 409
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 365
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 364
In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients — dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups — from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif — the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to hide behind.
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4 out of 5 stars
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21st Century Arabian Nights
- De Ryan en 05-28-14
- Alif the Unseen
- De: G. Willow Wilson
- Narrado por: Sanjiv Jhaveri
great look at today's world
Revisado: 12-06-12
Any additional comments?
This book is a very entertaining adventure story that also gives a great picture of some serious issues, from repression in today's Arabian peninsula to the hubris of technology geeks who think that computers can solve life's basic dilemmas.
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Home
- A Novel
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 460
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 391
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 391
Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he's hated all his life. This is a deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding his manhood - and his home.
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4 out of 5 stars
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not a novel, but a collection of short stories
- De Melinda en 06-14-12
- Home
- A Novel
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison is such an inspiring voice
Revisado: 06-25-12
Would you consider the audio edition of Home to be better than the print version?
Having Morrison read her own book is so wonderful -- her quiet voice is gentle and loving in some places, conveys such quiet fury in others.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Her characters, as usual, are haunting and complicated, with sympathetic stories that make you see where their limitations come from -- and ultimately, it's racism.
Any additional comments?
It's always just a joy to hear Morrison's beautiful language and learn from her brilliant perceptions.
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