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Title: The Brink
Subtitle: Stories
Author: Austin Bunn
Narrator: Austin Bunn, Luke Daniels, Tanya Eby, Ralph Lister, Amy McFadden, Mikael Narramore, Nick Podehl
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-02-16
Publisher: Austin Bunn
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 16 votes
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Winner, 2017 APA Audie Awards - Best Short Story/Collections
A brilliant, inventive debut story collection in the vein of Kevin Wilson and Wells Tower.
Brimming with life and unforgettable voices, the stories in Austin Bunn's dazzling collection explore the existential question: what happens at the end, and what lies beyond it? In the wry but affecting "How to Win an Unwinnable War", a summer class on nuclear war for gifted teenagers turns a struggling family upside down. A young couple's idyllic beach honeymoon is interrupted by terrorism in the lush, haunting "Getting There and Away". When an immersive video game begins turning off in the heartbreaking "Griefer", an obsessive player falls in love with a mysterious player in the final hours of a world.
Told in a stunning range of voices, styles and settings - from inside the Hale-Bopp cult to the deck of a conquistador's galleon adrift at the end of the ocean - the stories in Bunn's collection capture the transformations and discoveries at the edge of irrevocable change. Each tale presents a distinct world, told with deep emotion, energizing language and characters with whom we have more in common that we realize. They signal the arrival of an astonishing new talent in short fiction.
Includes a bonus monologue, "Basement Story".
Bunn is a screenwriter (Kill Your Darlings), former journalist (New York Times Magazine, Wired and elsewhere) and performer, whose work has been performed at The Moth, WBEZ and public radio.
Members Reviews:
I love at least three of these stories
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes, awesome stuff
Any additional comments?
Last week Ive received the audiobook version of The Brink: Stories by Austin Bunn from a great female narrator that I admire very much. She knew that I started theAudiobookBlog and she wanted to see if I will enjoy this collection of short stories, and I DID, very much!
Austin Bunn is a talented young author that writes with ease and passion stories from different genres. In The Brink he switches from Drama to Thriller, from Mystery to Adventure, and so on. Im sure everyone will find at lease two or three stories to love, just like I did. In total there are 10 short stories, plus one more as bonus for buying the audiobook.
My top three favorite short stories from The Brink were:
How to Win an Unwinnable War A smart kid takes a Summer School course from which he wants to learn how to win a Nuclear War.
Getting There and Away A rich, just married, couple are vacationing in Bali, but there Paradise Island is not what it appears to be.
Ledge A sailor tells the story of how he arrived at the edge of the World and what he found there.
The rest of this collection is also good, but I wanted to tell you about these three favorites of mine, because Im still thinking of them after I have finished the audiobook. The characters were very well developed and the plot lines were more then interesting.
The only negative impression with which Im left after my experience with The Brink: Stories was Griefer. Although I am a gamer, I didnt synced with Griefer, the story of a gamer consumed by the shut down of an alternate reality massively online multiplayer game. The only thing I liked about it is thats performed by the author and I enjoyed his narration.
