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Baumgartner
- A Novel
- De: Paul Auster
- Narrado por: Paul Auster
- Duración: 5 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 187
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 150
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 150
Baumgartner’s life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next 40 years, and back to Baumgartner’s youth in Newark and his Polish-born father’s life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Listen
- De Amazon Customer en 11-17-23
- Baumgartner
- A Novel
- De: Paul Auster
- Narrado por: Paul Auster
A Great Listen
Revisado: 11-17-23
Baumgartner opens, it seems a simple story. Then there are some surprising twists and turns and before you know it you are in the the midst of a parable of such power that you want it to never end. Another Auster gem, smartly and simply read.
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Tuff
- A Novel
- De: Paul Beatty
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
Weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston "Tuffy" Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of millions from his idea, Cap'n Crunch: The Movie, starring Danny DeVito. His best friend is a disabled Muslim who wants to rob banks, his guiding light is an ex-hippie Asian woman who worked for Malcolm X, and his wife, Yolanda, he married from jail over the phone. Shrewdly comical as this dazzling novel is, it turns acerbically sublime when the frustrated Tuffy agrees to run for City Council.
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5 out of 5 stars
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High Larry Us!
- De Amazon Customer en 07-24-23
- Tuff
- A Novel
- De: Paul Beatty
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
High Larry Us!
Revisado: 07-24-23
Beatty is as funny as Mark Twain. Tuffy is a great character. His posse are the Keystone Kops in reverse. So many ideas on the air, a juggler of words and you’ll laugh out loud.
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Liberation Day
- Stories
- De: George Saunders
- Narrado por: George Saunders, Tina Fey, Michael McKean, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 370
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 319
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 317
The “best short story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary
- De REBECCA en 10-18-22
- Liberation Day
- Stories
- De: George Saunders
- Narrado por: George Saunders, Tina Fey, Michael McKean, Edi Patterson, Jenny Slate, Jack McBrayer, Melora Hardin, Stephen Root
Go George Go
Revisado: 12-30-22
This collection of stories from the day after tomorrow assails the senses and hangs you out to dry, so rich the fecund earth life
springs from. The glorious music that bookends, by Caroline Shaw, is the sound that The Speakers create as they recreate the Past, the horrific, racist, murderous Past of US. It’s all here, the hate and soulless stupidity of digital tech and the glimmers of light of life as the world falls apart and rots around our ears. The spell it casts will nag me forever. The moon takes over the sky. Go back, live under the bridge in a hailstorm. Make love or die. And die. And make love. Go George go
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The Shape of the Ruins
- A Novel
- De: Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Anne McLean
- Narrado por: Sheldon Romero
- Duración: 17 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 22
The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of a murdered Colombian politician, few notice. But soon this thwarted theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular fixations with conspiracy theories, assassinations, and historical secrets; and it haunts those who feel that only they know the real truth behind these killings.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Uncanny valley between fiction and non
- De Radhakrishna Bettadapura en 11-17-18
- The Shape of the Ruins
- A Novel
- De: Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Anne McLean
- Narrado por: Sheldon Romero
Epic and Brilliant
Revisado: 12-25-22
A book about the creation of a book. A detailed history of Uribe and Gaitan and Colombia, ripe with imaginations and conspiracy theories. A book whose nooks and twists make if almost impossible to describe, bug what a pleasure to hear or read. Challenging. Extraordinary. The reading is first rate.
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