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Title: Im Dying Laughing

Subtitle: The Humorist

Author: Christina Stead

Narrator: Anna Fields

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-10

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

This last great work by one of the centurys great writers is a large and original novel of betrayal and self-delusion, madness and consuming passions, that recreates to chilling effect the political turbulence of the American Left and the clamor and menace of the McCarthy Right. Not since her classic The Man Who Loved Children has Stead fashioned such willful and memorable characters as Emily Wilks and Stephen Howard.

Emily is a woman of enormous but mercurial enthusiasms whose unflagging ebullience masks a darkness that will lead to disaster. Stephenhandsome, clever, spoiledis a dangerous dreamer, an upper-class dropout playing at radical politics. Together, they mirror the times through which they live: the heady revolutionary fervor of the Depression, the short collaborative effort of wartime America, the fractiousness of the Cold War years.

Critic Reviews:

The material itself is fascinating, the writing, especially the dialogue, vital and tumultuous." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Tedious

Couldn't listen to more than 33% of this. Henry James-like detail but without the insight or amusement.