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In a working-class town in a county west of London, a schoolgirl scribbles stories in the back pages of her exercise book, intoxicated by the first sparks of her imagination. As she grows, everything and everyone she encounters become fuel for a burning talent. The large Russian man in the ancient maroon car who careens around the grocery store where she works as a checkout clerk, and slips her a copy of Beyond Good and Evil. The growing heaps of other books in which she loses–and finds–herself. Even the derailing of a friendship, in a devastating violation.
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The Netanyahus
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- Auteur(s): Joshua Cohen
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Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian—but not an historian of the Jews—is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with nonfiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive comedy of blending, identity, and politics.
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
- Auteur(s): Jennifer Egan
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Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the listener does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa.
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Disappointed and Uninterested
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-07-21
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
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- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-07-21
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Pineapple Street
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Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected old money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and her inheritance for motherhood but giving up far too much in the process; Sasha, a middle-class New England girl, has married into the Brooklyn Heights family, and finds herself cast as the arriviste outsider; and Georgiana, the baby of the family, has fallen in love with someone she can’t have, and must decide what kind of person she wants to be.
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I Have Some Questions for You
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- Auteur(s): Rebecca Makkai
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A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia’s death and the conviction of the school’s athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are hotly debated online, Bodie prefers—needs—to let sleeping dogs lie.
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This book has it all
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Time Shelter
- Auteur(s): Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Rodel - translator
- Narrateur(s): Jeff Harding
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“At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created,” begins Time Shelter’s enigmatic narrator, who goes unnamed. “In the mid-seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October 22, 4,004 years before Christ.” But for our narrator, time as he knows it begins when he meets Gaustine, a “vagrant in time” who has distanced his life from contemporary reality by reading old news, wearing tattered old clothes, and haunting the lost avenues of the twentieth century.
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Birnam Wood
- Auteur(s): Eleanor Catton
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Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice, on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then, natural disaster creates an opportunity, a sizable farm seemingly abandoned.
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Important story with outstanding performance
- Écrit par ultraLimitem le 2023-06-08
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Grey Bees
- Auteur(s): Andrey Kurkov, Boris Dralyuk - translator
- Narrateur(s): Andrew Byron
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Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the lukewarm war of sporadic violence and constant propaganda that has been dragging on for years, only two residents remain: retired safety inspector turned beekeeper Sergey Sergeyich, and Pashka, a rival from his schooldays. With little food and no electricity, under constant threat of bombardment, Sergeyich's one remaining pleasure is his bees. As spring approaches, he knows he must take them far from the Grey Zone.
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Such a lovely story
- Écrit par Anng le 2023-06-08
Auteur(s): Andrey Kurkov, Autres
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
- Auteur(s): Shehan Karunatilaka
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Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali.
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- Écrit par selin le 2023-06-24
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Booth
- Auteur(s): Karen Joy Fowler
- Narrateur(s): January LaVoy
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In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth—breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor, and master of the house in more ways than one—is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive, as year by year, the country draws frighteningly closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war.
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Fascinating
- Écrit par mary m le 2022-04-02
Auteur(s): Karen Joy Fowler
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Harlem Shuffle
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- Auteur(s): Colson Whitehead
- Narrateur(s): Dion Graham
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To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Ray Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time.
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Every line a poem
- Écrit par Jaya le 2023-06-21
Auteur(s): Colson Whitehead
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The Fraud
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- Auteur(s): Zadie Smith
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It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper—and cousin by marriage—of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a moralist; and England of being a land of facades, in which nothing is quite what it seems.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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- Auteur(s): Gabrielle Zevin
- Narrateur(s): Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi
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On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom.
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Love the characters and gaming elements!
- Écrit par Katy le 2022-12-04
Auteur(s): Gabrielle Zevin
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Hello Beautiful
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- Auteur(s): Ann Napolitano
- Narrateur(s): Maura Tierney
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William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it’s as if the world has lit up around him. With Julia comes her family, as she and her three sisters are inseparable: Sylvie, the family’s dreamer, is happiest with her nose in a book; Cecelia is a free-spirited artist; and Emeline patiently takes care of them all.
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- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-04-20
Auteur(s): Ann Napolitano
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The Rabbit Hutch
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- Auteur(s): Tess Gunty
- Narrateur(s): Tess Gunty, Scott Brick, Suzanne Toren, Autres
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An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents — neighbors, separated only by the thin walls of a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial center of Vacca Vale, Indiana.
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE
“Buzzy and enthralling …A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery…Fun as hell to read.”—Oprah Daily
"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City’s elite in the roaring ’20s and Great Depression."—Vanity Fair
“A riveting story of class, capitalism, and greed.”—Esquire
"Exhilarating.”—New York Times
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.
Hernan Diaz’s TRUST elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another—and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation.
At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, TRUST engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.
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“Intricate, cunning and consistently surprising…Much of the novel's pleasure derives from its unpredictabiility...Add Henry James to Wharton, and Thomas Mann too...Exhilarating and intelligent novel.”—New York Times
“Luminous… Masterful… The drama lies in trying to puzzle out where Diaz will take you next, what’s been hidden, and why.”—The New Yorker
“A rip-roaring, razor-sharp dissection of capitalism, class, greed, and the meaning of money itself that also manages to be a dazzling feat of storytelling on its own terms… Important and timely. But the uniquely brilliant way in which Diaz tells that story, as meticulously researched as it is narratively exhilarating, makes it a novel not just for the present age but for the ages.”—Vogue
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- miracle books
- 2023-07-05
Painfully boring. Not entertaining, barely enlightening.
The Pulitzer judges got seduced by structure over content. While this structure is interesting, it is not apparent while reading this book. Afterwards, yes, it’s cute.
Lawrence Durrell wrote The Four Quartets using a similar approach to perspective. His books were more fun to read.
Fiction can simply entertain, or entertain and enlighten, but never just enlighten. That’s what this technical novel attempts.
I bought it based on the award and read it cautiously based on the ‘qualified’ reviews. ‘Hold on , it gets better.’ ‘The last book is the key, so please try and get there ‘
I should have known prize winners in Literature are often just different enough for bored judges to find refreshing.
As for the performances in the audiobook, desultory, monotones. I guess that goes along with the tone of the book itself. Not the actors’ faults.
Do not waste any of your valuable resources on this book.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-06-05
Fantastic Mind-Bender of a Ride!
A book in 4-acts, and a delirious labyrinthian journey to the center of the “truth”, each story erases the previous one to reveal the full power of revisionist history and its economic spill. This book is a modern cautionary tale on the extent of what can happen, and the unintended consequences, when you outsmart technology just because you can.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-05-24
Great book
I really enjoyed this book. Innovative structure, engaging story with clear references to real life events.
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- JS
- 2023-02-07
Great character study novel that accelerates at the end. Highly recommend.
This book is a great character driven novel, with a mystery that builds slowly that accelerates at the end.
Highly recommend.
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- Roberta W
- 2022-09-26
Very unique
I enjoyed this book. I have an opportunity to attend a talk with the author (who is new to me), so I thought I’d introduce myself to his work.
I liked the different perspectives, especially the combination of book drafts and general narration. I thought it was rather clever. I will read more by this author.
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- C. Ian Keay
- 2022-08-13
Just okay
Not my favourite. The story was well told but not particularly interesting. Just like reading a mundane section of 3 diaries telling the same, mundane story.
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- JLDLOfficial
- 2022-08-13
Before Purchasing
Thinking carefully before purchasing this audiobook. The plot (if there was one) is incomprehensible. If you prefer to hear 4 separate novels, then you will be just fine. This is not the sort of audiobook you can have on in the background while doing something else. There is no warning when the book changes and unless you are exclusively dedicating your time to this audiobook, you will get lost. Too much time is spent discussing characters relatives who play no significant part in
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- tpritch
- 2022-05-21
Long buildup to tepid ending
As others have pointed out, this novel is in four sections, representing four perspectives on the same events. Each narrator tailored the recounting to his own benefit, and the author wrote each in a different style. Beyond illustrating human vanity, I didn’t find a deeper meaning, nor did the story become more captivating — simply a rehashing, without resolution. Writing is very good; narration is very good (I recognized Audm voices); but no plot carries this home.
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- Jeff Koeppen
- 2022-08-01
Another GREAT Diaz Novel
Trust was one of my most anticipated books of this year as I loved Diaz's In The Distance. I'm glad I avoided all reviews and discussion of this book prior to reading it as its odd (to me) structure was a surprise and I had no knowledge of the plot or characters going in. I pounced on the Audible version as I had a road trip scheduled and was looking forward to getting lost in a great novel as the miles ticked by. It WAS great! Audible used four different narrators, one for each section of the book, matching the respective points of view of the particular section. The voice and tone of the narrators were great matches for the characters they represented.
I can't recall ever reading a book structured as Trust was. Basically four different perspective of the same events - primarily the boom in wealth and stock market, and subsequent 1929 crash of the market - centered around a successful financier, Andrew Bevel and his wife, Mildred.
The first section is a novel within the novel, called Bonds, which happens to be about a successful 20th century financier named Benjamin Rask and his wife, Helen. The second section is Andrew Bevel's autobiography. The third section is the memoir of a woman named Ida Partenza who Bevel hires to help him flesh out and embellish his autobiography. The fourth section is written by Mildred Bevel.
In each subsequent section you learn more about the Bevels personally and what made Andrew so successful on Wall Street. I felt that the novel got better as it went on as I had no idea where it was going for the first half or so. The third and fourth sections really ramped up my interest as a number of revelations were made about the Bevels. By the end I was bowled over, especially looking back at what I had just heard and how Diaz set it all up.
You don't need to be interested in Wall Street to enjoy this novel, although knowledge of stocks, bonds, futures, etc. makes some of jargon understandable. It's really a novel about perceptions.
Just like in In The Distance, the writing is excellent and just flows, and the story-telling is fantastic. Five stars.
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- jack sherman
- 2022-05-10
Excellent!
this complex story--told from 3 or 4 perspectives--reveals much about capitalism in the 1900s---and how money flows to the top. there is much wisdom here--about a robber baron (fictional)--and how he sees himself--vs. how he was--well--I will not give the surprise away!
as usual--E. Ballerini (my #1 favorite reader) does a fine job reading the first lengthy chapter. listened to it on an 8-hour drive yesterday. this is a very "literary" book. reminds me of Faulkner in its multi-perspective approach. a powerful story of "the American Century."
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- Glenn
- 2022-05-22
Engrossing but be careful who you trust
The secrets behind the fortunes of a mega-rich financier unfold in a set of 4 documents (books, journals) that report the same events from different vantages and with different levels of fabrication versus candor. The pieces come together in a richly satisfying way. Each section is read by a different narrator; all are effective in bringing the book to life.
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- Jack J. Knowles
- 2023-05-19
pulitzer schmulitzer
I should have known whenever I get attracted to book based upon accolades watch out. i have two reviews to write for this book. one for the book itself which I kept listening to you hoping that the story would go somewhere and it wasn't just a collection of talesi that didn't really have any cohesion.. but finally gave up...
and thought at least I can return it for a credit at audible but I was fooled twice once by this very boring very third party droll tale that went nowhere and the second time by audible who said I couldn't return it even though I paid full price or full credit boo for you pulitzer and you audible...
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- Victoria Wagner
- 2022-08-12
Illusions
This is not always an easy book to read but it is well worth it. It is also difficult to review without giving too much away. I read the reviews on NPR and The NYTIMES but until you read the book in full they don’t explain the full amount. The title of my review is illusion and that is at the heart of the book. We don’t always understand if it is only about money and the market or if they are even broader. I highly recommend reading it to find out.
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- murphyp
- 2022-06-15
Great narrators. Great story
Very interesting concept in how the different sections tied together. Great to see a fictional take on certain aspects of capitalism. Allows more room to play with the ideas mostly found in nonfiction books
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- R D...
- 2022-05-08
THE FRIENDLESS ECONOMIST
An economist-financier survives the crash of 1929. Blocked by his ego, he is a loner in all affairs.
I found Trust to be a wordy, complicated read/listen for the message it sends.
Narration was fair.
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- G. Griffith
- 2022-05-26
A must read.
Brilliant concept and the merging of the stories is flawless. The author is a gifted wordsmith.
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