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An American Marriage (Oprah’s Book Club)
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Sean Crisden, Eisa Davis
- Durée: 8 h et 59 min
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- Catégories: Littérature et fiction, Fiction femmes
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Olive Again truly touched my heart . A great read
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In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only 29 years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free. But with an incompetent defense attorney and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years on Death Row at Holman State Prison in despairing silence.
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The Unimaginable becomes Reality
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At 97 years old, Winnifred Ellis knows she doesn’t have much time left, and it is almost a relief to realize that once she is gone, the truth about her shameful past will die with her. But when her great-grandson Jamie, the spitting image of her dear late husband, asks about his family tree, Winnifred can’t lie any longer, even if it means breaking a promise she made so long ago....
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Fascinating and well written
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As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything - beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses - but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets.
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One of the best Audible titles I have listened to!
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
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Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls - but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior. In an attempt to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier - a move they think will keep him out of combat.
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Great insight into the Italian Front
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Oprah’s Book Club 2018 Selection
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to 12 years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit.
Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy's time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy's conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together.
This stirring love story is a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward - with hope and pain - into the future.
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"Narrators Eisa Davis and Sean Crisden skillfully portray Celestial and Roy.... In Part One, the narrators read the couple's letters so intimately that the listener may feel like an intruder.... As every wedding vow is tested, the narrators breathe intensity into Jones's riveting prose." (AudioFile)
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- Amanda
- 2018-07-21
Wonderful book!
Loved this title but the only criticism I have is when the male narrator imitates the female voice. Voice is a powerful conveyor of character and when the male narrator performs the voice for Celestial one gets the impression of a meek and whinny woman; a contradiction to when the female narrator performs chapters as Celestial.
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- Terra White
- 2018-09-08
Pulls at the heartstrings
Rarely do you find a novel where you really love all the characters and you know someone heart has to break. I was listening intently till the end!! so good!!
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- L. K.
- 2018-05-07
Beware the TERRIBLE narration
This story is slow, deep and cuts down to how a relationship can work and fail. It's not the best exploration of a marriage, but it definitely stays with you and leaves you thinking. I didn't find any of the main characters to be likable or worthy of sympathy or empathy. They all make questionable choices and no one seems to think any decision through. It's frustrating to go through this story with these characters and find out you like them even less than when you started. Roy is a self admitted cheater, even though he and Celestial only spent a year married. He considers raping and hitting her once he's released from jail, but being the stand up dude he is, he doesn't, and tells her so. The letters between them are laughable. No one would write letters like this.
And the narration is SO TERRIBLE. I have absolutely no clue why no one told the male narrator that his "woman's voice" was necessary. It was bizarre- imagine someone told you to say something in an old woman's voice. You'd make your voice creaky and slightly lower and maybe add some shake to it, right? This is exactly what the male narrator did when he voiced any woman. It made it as though Roy was talking with some old crone, not his young wife. Don't audiobooks have directors or anyone who helps the narrator with their reading and voices?? This was the most misguided choice for the male narrator to try put on a woman's voice instead of just reading in his own voice. Trust me, I would have understood who was talking without hearing it in a scratchy falsetto. The weirdest part was that the female narrator did not try to make her voice deeper when voicing the male characters so juxtaposing the two narration styles made the whole book disjointed and jarring to switch between the two.
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- Lisa
- 2019-08-13
What an excellent and thought provoking story.
My only issue was the Male narrators trying to speak like a female. Irritating. Other than that, excellent narration and wonderful story. I completely enjoyed it! I would and have recommended it to others.
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- Sher
- 2021-11-20
an all right story
I really expected more from an Oprah pick as her picks tend to be VERY memorable but this book was just ok... no big twists or turns... just a slow burn that left me disappointed at the end.
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- Ang
- 2021-09-12
Do not recommend
I found the premise of this book so flimsy I couldn’t finish it. The easy acceptance of how Roy lands in jail makes no sense. It’s unbelievable and cliche. It felt like it was just a set up for a letter writing format. Also, It’s weird to listen to the male narrator read female characters. At the very least I don’t understand why the female narrator didn’t read all of Celestial’s words. I honestly don’t think Oprah read this book. Feeling duped.
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- Kristeen
- 2021-08-12
an alright listen
I had a hard time with this one, I didn't love the story and found the characters hard to relate to. The performances however were very well done, and kept me coming back until the end.
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- Michelle
- 2021-05-10
Oh Oprah
What was all the hype about? Odd story line, odd ending. Was just.... odd. Oh yes, from a black perspective, I guess was the hook?
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- Jordan Jade
- 2021-03-30
Brilliant x beautiful - must read!
One of the best novels I’ve read in ages - ive returned so many lately and im so pleased i gave this one a shot.
Stunning and heart wrenching story ill likely ready more than once.
The different narrators was distinct and well done, beautiful touch. Not confusing like some other stories.
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- Patricia
- 2020-12-03
Enjoyable
overall I enjoyed this story. I found it hard to focus in parts, and it took me a while to get through the full story. I didn't much like the changes in voices. although I understood the reason for the representation of the different characters. Not as exciting a read as I had initially expected.
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- marie
- 2019-12-03
Heartbreaking, heartfelt and human.
Easy to listen to, the story grabs at your emotions but not excessively so. A story like one a friend would tell you.
Glad I got to hear it.
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- Lisa N. Haynes
- 2018-03-01
Loved the Story, but...
Any additional comments?
The book started slow and I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy it and that would have been a pity because I have enjoyed all of Tayari Jones' work. Fortunately, the story picked up and I did enjoy it. My only big criticism is with the narration. The male narrator's depiction of Celestial or the other female characters didn't work for me. I found myself wondering how it would have worked if Sean Crisden and Eisa Davis narrated those passages together.
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- Kristen R King
- 2018-05-04
So many “WTF” moments
Prepare to be underwhelmed. The only thing I truly enjoy about this book is that the characters are nuanced, neither all good nor all bad. There’s no one to really root for, it’s just a story about the complications of love and commitment.
Narration is good.
Ultimately, this story is OK. I just found myself throwing up my hands at so many points. It was like watching your trainwreck of a best friend repeat their relationship woes. It was like listening to the whiny excuses of ratchet individuals.
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- emankcin
- 2018-07-01
don't get the hype
I was not impressed with the overall story and especially character development. Too much of the story is untold, the protagonist hardly changes even with everything that changes in his life and the wife's actions are completely off from the "strong independent women" the author tries to paint her as. No spoilers but all she does is what the men in her life push her too, she let's others fight her battles and is so passive...yet the author keeps saying what a strong modern women she is. I couldn't get past that to enjoy the book.
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- Cindy Morris
- 2018-05-11
Unredeemable characters
I found the story to be slow, monotonous and repetitious. I lost interest in the characters because they were hopelessly flawed to the point that I stopped caring about what happened to them. The best parts of the book were the beginning and the ending. The middle could have used a lot of editing.
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- Shannon Stevens
- 2019-07-14
OMG The Narration! Horrendous
I could not listen, stopped after about an hour-the narrator is horrible for this book! He has this deep, sexy voice that would be great in something where he is not required to imitate a woman....but seriously, a deep male voice is NOT cute imitating a woman - had to stop.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2018-02-15
It was okay. Not what I expected.
The story was interesting but lack substance and depth. I kept thinking i missed something.
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- Wendi
- 2018-05-03
Maybe the Narration Ruined This For Me..
An American Marriage was okay. To summarize, a newly wedded couple (husband openly admits he has transgressions), were unlucky enough to be in a hotel room beside a rape victim. Some how the husband gets charged for the rape and ends up in jail. We assume he was tried and convicted for nothing more than being black.
The couple keeps up with writing to one another for a couple of years, and then the wife decides she can't take it anymore and falls in love with her childhood friend. The husband gets out of jail on appeal and goes back to try and salvage the marriage.
The narration is so monotone. I kept asking myself 'Why isn't he more upset about this??' There was no voice infliction to indicate any sort of feeling from the male or female narrator. It made the book less intense, less interesting, and less convincing.
I am grateful to Oprah for introducing me to dozens of books which I have loved since 1995. This just wasn't one of them.
-Wendi
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- EJ.Cox
- 2018-02-12
All in One Day...
I listened to the entire book in one day...9 hours straight. I have never been captivated by a novel in my 40 years of life. I could see each word as they were narrated... especially Eisa's narration.
When the gentleman narrated the women's parts, it didn't feel as authentic, yet their performances were phenomenal. I want to thank my former school mate, Lashawnda, for recommending this read.
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- NMwritergal
- 2018-02-11
Glad such a worthy author got the Oprah bump
I stumbled upon Jones' Silver Sparrow a few years ago and really liked it--more than this one, actually, though I did like this one. So often, really good authors (often authors of color) are totally overlooked, and you have to do a fair amount of hunting to find them amongst thousands upon thousands of books.
Jones managed to take really depressing and difficult subjects (the over incarceration of black men and wrongful conviction alongside the issues of marriage, children, fractured families, racism, and so on) and treat them in such a way that you get it--it's real--but you don't feel like opening a vein.
Roy was the most compelling and interesting character to me and the audio narrator bumped it up a notch. I wish there had been a different narrator for Celestial. While Davis was fine I was really craving Bahni Turpin, Angela Dawe, or Robin Miles, all of whom would have brought Celestial to life better.
Too often these days, authors write unlikable or really flawed narrators but write them in such a way that you can't relate, can't understand. In this novel, all three main characters are flawed (though nobody is downright unlikeable) yet you can still relate to each and understand why they are the way they are and do the things they do. That's no small feat to pull off.
I was rooting for all three main characters even though I couldn't imagine that it would turn out well for all of them!
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- Mia Garret
- 2018-02-12
Unexpected
Shocking, beautiful, Human. This story rips apart fairytales and challenges what we believe is “real” between two people who decide to be married. I will probably listen again soon.
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