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A Prayer for Owen Meany
- De: John Irving
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 27 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10,839
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9,018
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9,006
Of all of John Irving's books, this is the one that lends itself best to audio. In print, Owen Meany's dialogue is set in capital letters; for this production, Irving himself selected Joe Barrett to deliver Meany's difficult voice as intended. In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys – best friends – are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary and terrifying.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De Alan en 03-28-11
- A Prayer for Owen Meany
- De: John Irving
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
I'll never read this book too many times
Revisado: 03-31-16
Every so many years, I reread this wonderful novel. I am newly surprised by it every time. He does write like Dickens in that nothing is superfluous. Don't try to skip over anything. Try to find someone who's also read it, because you'll need to talk about it.
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Ordinary Light
- A Memoir
- De: Tracy K. Smith
- Narrado por: Tracy K. Smith
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 182
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 162
Tracy K. Smith has a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest in a family of five children raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God by a stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But after spending a summer in Alabama at her grandmother's home, she returns to California with a new sense of what it means for her to be Black: from her mother's memories of picking cotton as a girl in her father's field for pennies a bushel to her parents' involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply spoken - poetic
- De CarolynneRHarris en 04-27-15
- Ordinary Light
- A Memoir
- De: Tracy K. Smith
- Narrado por: Tracy K. Smith
Wordy
Revisado: 03-16-16
Ms. Smith has a beautiful written voice; however, she uses a lot of words too get to a point. I often found myself thinking that she was too self-concerned. She has some insights into acquiring a personal sense of religion and grieving that are enlightened, and that I found helpful; but you have to make your way through a lot of minutiae to get to them.
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