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The Echo Chamber
- Narrateur(s): Richard E. Grant
- Durée: 14 h et 38 min
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Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept.
The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a 'national treasure' (his words); his wife, Beverley, a celebrated novelist (although not as celebrated as she would like); and their children, Nelson, Elizabeth, Achilles, various degrees of catastrophe waiting to happen.
Together they will go on a journey of discovery through the Hogarthian jungle of the modern living where past presumptions count for nothing and carefully curated reputations can be destroyed in an instant. Along the way, they will learn how volatile, how outraged, how unforgiving the world can be when you step from the proscribed path.
Powered by John Boyne's characteristic humour and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity and oblivion. To err is maybe to be human but to really foul things up you only need a phone.
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- Dana G
- 2024-02-28
Just Brilliant!
Boyne has captured perfectly the absurdity and pathos of our current woke culture...one that is fueld by superficial values and easily whipped into a frenzy by social media. At first I was hesitant to get this book because it didn't sound like there would be any characters I'd actually like in it! Which is actually true...but my dislike of them was certainly not so intense that I was turned off of the whole story. In fact, I often found myself sympathizing with these shallow, selfish, befuddled, and morally questionable individuals as they blundered their way through life's challenges. Boyne really is a master observer of human psychology and human society at large.
In addition to the excellent story etc. the actual reading of it was also top notch! just excellent! This audiobook is totally worth the credit and then some.
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- Kelly
- 2024-02-28
Hilarious!
Incredible narration, it added so much to the story overall. This really is an excellent commentary on how vacuous and silly social media is in all its forms. This novel, like The Heart’s Invisible Furies, is what makes John Boyne one of the best authors out there.
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