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Title: Crimes in Southern Indiana

Subtitle: Stories

Author: Frank Bill

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-29-12

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

With this critically acclaimed debut collection, Frank Bill announces himself as an author of fiercely defined vision. In these vivid tales, Bills southern Indiana proves a literary destination of immense nuance, even as his mostly working-class characters cry out in voices that cannot be denied.

Critic Reviews:

Blasts off like a frigging rocket ship and hits as hard as an ax handle to the side of the head after youve eaten a live rattlesnake for breakfast. (Donald Ray Pollock, best-selling author)

Members Reviews:

Great stories, not for the faint of heart

Imagine standing on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, you come across a gate with barbwire and "no trespassing" signs decorated with bullet holes guarding a dark, thick forest. Empty beer cans are scattered about the ground, and you smell something phenolic cooking in the distance. Then you hear shotguns doing some target practice somewhere in that thicket. You decide to jump the gate and wander inside. That's what opening the first page of this book is like. It's a wild ride into some dark places and minds that you wouldn't believe existed. Where redemption is in the eye of the beholder or behind the barrel of a gun. You'll need a hot shower after reading this.

You know sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

Dark and real, too real, you know somewhere this stuff is going on and it shouldn't be. Frank Bill tells us that we have a cancer in America and it is growing fast, sure it is fiction, sure they are just stories.Go on stick your head in the sand, this is the truth of a world that is just outside the door, and we have let it go, and hidden from it. But it is out there waiting for you, waiting to chew you up and spit you out. Frank Bill has done us a favor he let's us touch this world without getting hurt.

A collection of stories that chronicles the sad, violent and harsh lives of a rural populace

I read many books and wanted to try a different genre, which bought me to Crimes In Southern Indiana. A collection of stories that chronicles the sad, violent and harsh lives of a rural populace. I have read similar novels about rural white poverty, and I wasn't too impressed with the quality of the prose. This book was crudely written without being poetic at all. Each and every character was highly unlikeable and I agree with the review of a previous reader. The people in this book were so deranged and bereft of any humanity that they almost bordered on caricature. Vietnam and Afghanistan era vets with untreated PTSD. Poachers, meth addicts and alcoholics. You will read about child neglect, rape, thievery, adultery and so on. The real lower rung of society. I enjoy tales about various peoples, cultures, etc, but this book was depressing and without any redeeming value. I read it on one long afternoon, hoping the next short story would have a bit of light in it. None of them do. A dark, sad and bleak book.

Five Stars

Fantastic stories!

short stories

great stuff!

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Title: A Bigamist's Daughter

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Alice McDermott

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-12

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The New York Times best-selling author of After This and Charming Billy.

Elizabeth Connelly, editor at a New York vanity press, sells the dream of publication (admittedly, to writers of questionable talent). Stories of true emotional depth rarely cross her desk. But when a young writer named Tupper Daniels walks in, bearing an unfinished novel, Elizabeth is drawn to both the novelist and his story - a lyrical tale about a man in love with more than one woman at once. Tuppers manuscript unlocks memories of her own secretive father, who himself may have been a bigamist.

As Elizabeth and Tupper search for the perfect dénouement, their affair, too, approaches a most unexpected and poignant coda. A brilliant debut from one of our most celebrated authors, A Bigamists Daughter is "a wise, sad, witty novel about men and women, God, hope, love, illusion, and fiction itself" (Newsweek).

Members Reviews:

Andy Galligan

Alice McDermott is a great writer. She has proved that fact many times by the many novels she has written after A Bigamist's Daughter which was her initial work. This book had several memorable passages telling us about the mythologies of love that we all might succumb to in one way or another. It also reveals a heartless con-artist with a romantic heart, if that makes any sense. Compared to her other works, however, this one for me turned out to be somewhat of a dud. Chalk it up to a beginner's bad luck. It was a so-so beginning for a great artist.

Life is too short

I had fairly high hopes for this book, although I suppose if I had looked at the reviews I would have known better. The writing in the book was very readable, that being said nothing else about this book fit.

The main character was mostly fine, but the relationships between all of the characters was unbelievable. New people appeared and disappeared quickly with little definition. Romantic relationships were highly unbelievable, and the reason for the initial attraction left a great deal to be desired. Everything seemed too easy and superficial, including the supposedly deep-seated feelings of the protagonist.

Possibly most upsetting was the plot. It really felt as though McDermott had an idea for a book and was so happy with it that she did not bother to developed it any further. It was like a rough outline with no real climax. All of the plot twists were absent from the book. I kept thinking I knew what the twists were going to be, but they never happened. I suppose you could say that at least it wasn't predictable. I literally read to the last page waiting for the revelation, it never arrived. Unless the shallow emotional clarity that the protagonist was supposed to have experienced was intended to be satisfying. If so it fell far from its mark. My mother always says life is too short to read bad books. I wish I had listened in the case of this book.

Good Author, Bad Book

Generally Alice's writing makes me think and follow closely so as not to miss her little back-and-forths with her characters. I enjoy her writing style and story lines very much.

However, and a big however it is, this book had such a disappointing ending that I can't even recommend it in good conscience. More precisely, it had NOOO ending at all. The story started out with some direction but quickly lost it. The farther I read the more I wondered whose secrets we were going to uncover.

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Title: Healthy Start

Subtitle: A Story From Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

Author: Etgar Keret

Narrator: Ben Foster

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-20-12

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Author Etgar Keret is known for his uncanny ability to cover an incredible amount of ground in an extremely short story. His writing is at times funny, satirical, dark, and profound, and his narratives intertwine the abstract and the everyday in creative and surprising ways.

Healthy Start, a story from Keret's Suddenly, a Knock on the Door is no exception. Here, we are introduced to the recently jilted Aichai, an avid people-watcher who routinely - and regrettably - begins each morning by eating alone in a cafe. When, one morning, someone mistakes him for a man named Meir, he is too intrigued and too lonely to correct the mistake.

A quick listen brimming with food for thought, Healthy Start will at once leave you intellectually satisfied and hungry for more from Etgar Keret.

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Title: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

Subtitle: Stories

Author: Nathan Englander

Narrator: Mark Bramhall, Kirbey Heyborne, Lincoln Hoppe, Arthur Morey, Lorna Raver, John Rubenstein, Fred Sanders

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-12

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 104 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction.

The title story, inspired by Raymond Carvers masterpiece, is a provocative portrait of two marriages in which the Holocaust is played out as a devastating parlor game. In the outlandishly dark Camp Sundown vigilante justice is undertaken by a group of geriatric campers in a bucolic summer enclave. Free Fruit for Young Widows is a small, sharp study in evil, lovingly told by a father to a son. Sister Hills chronicles the history of Israels settlements from the eve of the Yom Kippur War through the present, a political fable constructed around the tale of two mothers who strike a terrible bargain to save a child. Marking a return to two of Englanders classic themes, Peep Show and How We Avenged the Blums wrestle with sexual longing and ingenuity in the face of adversity and peril. And Everything I Know About My Family on My Mothers Side is suffused with an intimacy and tenderness that break new ground for a writer who seems constantly to be expanding the parameters of what he can achieve in the short form.

Beautiful and courageous, funny and achingly sad, Englanders work is a revelation.

Critic Reviews:

"Englander's new collection of stories tells the tangled truth of life in prose that, as ever, surprises the reader with its gnarled beauty. Certifiable masterpieces of contemporary short-story art." (Michael Chabon)

"A resounding testament to the power of the short story from a master of the form. Englander's latest hooks you with the same irresistible intimacy, immediacy and deliciousness of stumbling in on a heated altercation that is absolutely none of your business; it's what great fiction is all about." (Téa Obreht)

"It takes an exceptional combination of moral humility and moral assurance to integrate fine-grained comedy and large-scale tragedy as daringly as Nathan Englander does." (Jonathan Franzen)

Members Reviews:

Englander at his best!

Always an insightful and provocative writer, Englander reaches deeply into his subject matter, complex as it is, to new heights as both an observer of his chosen culture and as a writer. The sensitive and intelligent aural telling of each story matches the writing.

What I Talk about When I Talk About This Book

If you could sum up What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank in three words, what would they be?

Captivating, Ambiguous, Touching

What did you like best about this story?

Each story was both specific to being Jewish and universal in the tale it had to tell. Although the characters were strangers I was sure I had met them somewhere in life.

Which scene was your favorite?

In the first story the four characters get drunk and high together in a very unexpected situation. It felt very real to me and I had to play it over because I laughed so hard in parts.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

The book made me laugh and cry. It was moving and sad in many parts.

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Title: Ripley Underground

Author: Patricia Highsmith

Narrator: Kevin Kenerly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-24-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 398 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The Buckmaster Gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition, but now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. It is, of course, and he wants to talk to Derwatt, but Derwatt, inconveniently, is dead. Ripley needs the perfect solution to keep his role in the fraud a secret and his reputation clean, but not everyone's nerves are as steady as his. Especially when it comes to murder.

Members Reviews:

When gods made Highsmith, they broke the plates.

While I don't believe 'Ripley Under Ground' is quite on the same level as 'The Talented Mr Ripley' it is still amazing to think about on how many levels Highsmith is writing. This novel reminds me a lot of Peter Carey's novel 'My Life as a Fake'.

Both novels explore ideas of art, authenticity, fakery, artistic isolation and basic counterfeits of all forms. What happens when the poseur becomes a greater poet/painter than the original? How do we measure art? How thin is the line between truth and fiction?

Anyway, Highsmith deserves to be recognized not just as a hard-boiled crime writer, but as a literary/genre example of Gresham's law. When the gods of fiction made Highsmith, they broke and buried the plates.

am I crazy?

Why do I like Tom Ripley? I find myself rooting for this strange murderer. I think the gift of this series is it gives us a chance to look at our own morals and belief systems. And it's so intriguing to try to figure out his. Great reader. I am all for not having endings wrapped up neatly but this ending still, this book feels like it stopped in the middle of a sentance. So much fun though - I look forward to the next one

Dichotomous

I had opposing thoughts about almost all of the elements of this book.

Story line: I thought it dragged; yet, it had a mesmerizing pace that I wouldn't have wanted changed.

Characters: They were all in the range from full-on sociopath (only the lead character) to amoral to just completely uncaring about anyone but themselves; yet, I wanted to know what happened to them ... in someway I can't explain, I actually cared about how they fared.

Plot premise: It was about the forging of some only slightly noteworthy paintings, as in "why do I care about this?"; yet, I became interested in the nuances of forgery detection and actually was hoping the forger would get away with it.

The ending: In no sense of the word was there an ending, or any sense of closure on the story line; yet, it somehow poetically worked with all the rest of the book.

I kept wondering why I was continuing to listen to this book; yet, I did all the way to the end. And I'm glad I did.

My only non-dichotomous opinion was about Kevin Kenerly's narration: it was superb!

Strangely enough: I recommend this book ... but only if you are committed to this series. As a standalone book I'm pretty sure you would find your credit wasted.

not quite as satisfying as original

Overall a good listen. I found the story less plausible than the original, but still believable enough to be enjoyed.

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Title: The Elephants Journey

Author: Jose Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa (translator)

Narrator: Christine Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-20-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A delightful, witty tale of friendship and adventure from prize-winning novelist Jose Saramago.

In 1551, King Joo III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. In Jose Saramago's remarkable and imaginative retelling, Solomon and his keeper, Subhro, begin in dismal conditions, forgotten in a corner of the palace grounds.

When it occurs to the king and queen that an elephant would be an appropriate wedding gift, everyone rushes to get them ready: Subhro is given two new suits of clothes and Solomon a long overdue scrub. Accompanied by the Archduke, his new wife, and the royal guard, these unlikely heroes traverse a continent riven by the Reformation and civil wars, witnessed along the way by scholars, historians, and wide-eyed ordinary people as they make their way through the storied cities of northern Italy; they brave the Alps and the terrifying Isarco and Brenner Passes; across the Mediterranean Sea and up the Inn River; and at last, toward their grand entry into the imperial city.

Critic Reviews:

"It would be hard to more highly recommend a novel to be downed in a single draftSimply, this books flows, and keeps on flowing." (The New York Times)

"His most optimistic, playful, humorous and magical book, a grace note written near the end of his life...The Elephant's Journey is a tale rich in irony and empathy, regularly interrupted by witty reflections on human nature and arch commentary on the powerful who insult human dignity." (Los Angeles Times)

"A picaresque romp that gleefully skewers the benighted souls clinging to outmoded worldviews while breathtaking new realities unfold right in front of them." (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)

Members Reviews:

Very Portuguese

There's something quintessentially Portuguese about this novel. It's something about the gentle humor, the deep wisdom, the kind acceptance of human nature. There's also a sense of absurd frivolity, rather like some of Lisbon's fanciful architecture. Somehow the author manages to write with bold childlike innocence and the wisdom of the ages. What's more amazing is that he did so while telling of a true historical event. It left me in tears but also in touch with my inner child.

Delightful Tale

The Elephant's Journey is fascinating, humorous, and quite enjoyable. I particularly liked the reader's interpretation.

Clever story grows weary

What disappointed you about The Elephants Journey?

It was a clever and humorous story at the beginning but dragged down as it went along.

Has The Elephants Journey turned you off from other books in this genre?

No.

Did Christine Williams do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

Her narration was adequate.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Disappointment. I had high expectations for this book.

Any additional comments?

It was a 'trip of fools'.

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Title: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

Author: Jose Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero (translator)

Narrator: Michael McConnohie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-20-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 38 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon - gray, colorless, chimerical. Ricardo Reis, a doctor and poet, has just come home after 16 years in Brazil.

Critic Reviews:

"Ricardo Reis, 'age, forty-eight, place of birth, Oporto, marital status, bachelor, profession, doctor, last place of residence, Rio de Janeiro,' returns to his native Portugal in 1936 as Europe rattles toward war. Published to acclaim in Portugal in 1984, this novel--full of poetry and philosophical musings--traffics over many levels: there is the world-weary Reis, coming home (perhaps) to die; there is an aging Europe, on the eve of its worst hours, seen from the peculiar vantage of a tiny country whose soul has removed to Brazil; and there is the great Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa who, though dead, visits Reis in his rooms and in cafes, wryly discoursing about life as seen from the other side. Saramago evokes an unforgettable image of Lisbon - surreal and ludicrous - an odd but affecting mix of elegy and gothic humor.... This extraordinarily nuanced work alternates a sunlit Borgesian playfulness with darker, more obsessive musings in what is altogether a bravura performance." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

A great novelist deserves a competent reader!

This is one of Saramago's many superb fictions. Saramago was from Portugal. He wrote in Portuguese. Portuguese is not Spanish. Chances are that if you have read a work by Saramago, you know this. But it seems that neither Audible.com, the holder to the rights to this audio recording nor the person hired to read and record the novel, Michael McConnohie, know this. Or, if they do, they couldn't care less. It's already a shame that neither Audible nor, as far as I know, any producer of audio books has seen fit to make or sell an audio recording of the works of Nobel-prize winning authors such as Saramago in the original Portuguese. But it adds insult to misfortune to hear, in just the first few minutes of the audio narration of THE YEAR OF THE DEATH OF RICARDO REIS, Mr. McConnohie mispronounce virtually every Portuguese name he reads. It's hard not to conclude that Mr. McConnohie had never read the novel he records before recording it and that he might as well have been a machine programmed to turn words written in English into words sounding as though they WERE English een when they were not. He even mispronounces the name of Fernando Pessoa, the great 20th century Lisboan poet who created and wrote under a number of "heteronyms," in addition to writing and publishing under his own name. "Ricardo Reis" is one of those 'heteronyms,' and Saramago, in a kind of homage to Pessoa, writes a novel about the fictional poet who, thanks to his creator, Fernando Pessoa, wrote real poetry. It's beyond me how anyone who wasn't aware of all this could be expected to read aloud a novel and make it make sense to his listeners--or how anyone with any sense or how any company that cared a whit for the quality of its product could neglect to do the MINIMAL amount of research required to discover these basic facts of Portuguese literary and intellectual history.

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Title: One for the Trouble

Subtitle: Book Slam, Volume One

Author: Irvine Welsh, Jon Ronson, William Boyd, Hari Kunzru, Joe Dunthorne, Bernardine Evaristo, Helen Oyeyemi

Narrator: Richard Milward, Hari Kunzru, Simon Armitage, Andrew Scott, Bernardine Evaristo, Kate Tempest, Joe Dunthorne, Olivia Coleman, Chris O'Dowd, Roger Robinson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-11

Publisher: Book Slam Productions Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

One for the Trouble: Book Slam, Volume One is the first release from the UKs premier literary event. Eighteen Book Slam alumni, from household names like Irvine Welsh and William Boyd to newcomers like Kate Tempest and Sophie Woolley, were approached to take a song title for inspiration for a new short story or poem. Some took this literally (Jon McGregors moving reimagining of A Houses 'Endless Art', for example); others suggestively (whod have thought Grandmaster Flash's 'The Message' would have lead Paul Murray to a heartbreaking tale of schoolboy rugby?). The resulting collection is unique, diverse, and thoroughly entertaining. With most contributions read by the authors themselves, others by some of our best-loved actors, One for the Trouble provides a perfect snapshot of the very best contemporary British writing, including:

1. 'Grave Architecture' (Pavement, 1995) by Richard Milward (read by author)

2. 'New Gold Dream' (Simple Minds, 1982 )by Hari Kunzru (read by author)

3. 'New Dawn Fades' (Joy Division, 1979) by Simon Armitage (read by author)

4. 'Comeback Girl' (Republic of Loose, 2005) by Irvine Welsh (read by Andrew Scott)

5. 'I'm Going Slightly Mad' (Queen, 1991) by Bernardine Evaristo (read by author)

6. 'The Bed's Too Big Without You' (Sheila Hylton, 1981) by Kate Tempest (read by author)

7. 'When I'm Sixty-Four' (The Beatles, 1967) by Joe Dunthorne (read by author)

8. 'Tears of a Clown' (Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, 1967) by William Boyd (read by Olivia Colman)

9. 'The Message' (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, 1982) by Paul Murray (read by Chris ODowd)

10. 'Ascension' (John Coltrane, 1966) by Roger Robinson (read by author)

11. 'Violet Stars Happy Hunting!' (Janelle Monáe, 2007) by Helen Oyeyemi (read by author)

12. 'I Read My Sentence' (Radka Toneff, 1986) by Don Paterson (read by author)

13. 'Let Me Entertain You' (Robbie Williams, 1998) by Patrick Ness (read by Mark Strong)

14. 'Bank Holiday' (Blur, 1994) by Luke Wright (read by author)

15. 'I Am the Walrus' (The Beatles, 1967) by Sophie Woolley (read by author)

16. 'That Summer Feeling' (Jonathan Richman, 1984) by Jon Ronson (read by author)

17. 'Underground' (Ben Folds Five, 1995)by Tim Key (read by author)

18. 'Endless Art' (A House, 1992) by Jon McGregor (read by author)

Critic Reviews:

"Book Slam has single-handedly dragged the London literary scene into the 21st century." (Hari Kunzru)

Members Reviews:

Interestingly bizarre

A series of strange and uncanny short stories, by some of the best UK writers. It was peppered with a few poems and at least one monologue style ' rap'. I liked the different narrators and array of street savvy characters.

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Title: The Shawl

Author: Cynthia Ozick

Narrator: Yelena Shmulenson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-18-11

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 32 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

At once fiercely immediate and complex in their implications, The Shawl and Rosa succeed in imagining the unimaginable: the horror of the Holocaust and the emptiness of its aftermath. They were written in 1977 but were first published in the early 1980s in The New Yorker. Both The Shawl and Rosa won first prize in the O. Henry Prize Stories and were chosen for Best American Short Stories.

In The Shawl, a woman named Rosa Lublin watches a concentration camp guard murder her daughter. In Rosa, that same woman appears 30 years later, a madwoman and a scavenger in a Miami hotel. And in both stories there is a shawla shawl that can sustain a starving child or inadvertently destroy her, or even magically conjure her back to life.

Critic Reviews:

Performed by Yelena Schmulenson, whose emotional accuracy eats into your heart. (BookPage)

"Cynthia Ozick is the most accomplished and graceful literary stylist of our time." (The New York Times)

"Brilliant miniatures, rich with passion and compassion." (Philadelphia Inquirer)

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Title: The Forgotten Waltz

Author: Anne Enright

Narrator: Heather O'Neill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 52 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Irish novelist Anne Enright won the coveted Man Booker Prize for her eloquent novel The Gathering. In The Forgotten Waltz, Enright crafts a stunning tale about a Dublin womans affair and its heartrending consequences. Gina Moynihan is already married when she meets Seán Vallely. But longing and desire soon overtake them - and their lives begin to crumble shortly after.

Critic Reviews:

A breathtaking work that will surprise you; highly recommended. (Library Journal)

Members Reviews:

Perfect Marriage of Novelist and Reader

Stayed in bed with a bad head cold today and luxuriated in this sure-footed, lyrical, and beautifully read novel. Few works of literature have been able to capture the emotional geography of a young woman's marital affair as well as this psychologically astute work. Coupled with Heather O'Neill's narration, Enright's novel offers an experience of rare immersion and intimacy for the reader.

Good and realistic, but out of sync

Although this story documents an affair and is very bittersweet and realistic, it starts as one story and ends up as another. This story construct does not really work.. Most interesting and bittersweet is how people making decisions to leave a relationship cannot really let go of the last relationship.

Who Are These People and Why Should I Care?

You didn???t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

Yes, the narrator. I could picture the settings as she read, which is why I like to listen to books that take place in Ireland.

Any additional comments?

I picked this book because I enjoyed Heather O'Neill's reading of The Likeness so much and wanted to hear her voice again. She does a good job here, too, but the book was over before I found any reason to care about any of the characters!