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Title: Sudden Death
Author: Álvaro Enrigue
Narrator: Robert Fass
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-09-16
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 28 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Sudden Death begins with a brutal tennis match that could decide the fate of the world. The bawdy Italian painter Caravaggio and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo battle it out before a crowd that includes Galileo, Mary Magdalene, and a generation of popes who would throw Europe into the flames. In England, Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII behead Anne Boleyn, and her crafty executioner transforms her legendary locks into the most sought-after tennis balls of the time. Across the ocean in Mexico, conquistador Hernán Cortés and his Mayan translator and lover, La Malinche, scheme and conquer, not knowing that their domestic comedy will change the world. And in a remote Mexican colony, a bishop reads Thomas More's Utopia and thinks that instead of a parody, it's a manual.
In this mind-bending, prismatic novel, worlds collide, time coils, traditions break down. There are assassinations and executions, hallucinogenic mushrooms, utopias, carnal liaisons and papal dramas, artistic and religious revolutions, love stories and war stories. A dazzlingly original voice and a postmodern visionary, Álvaro Enrigue tells a grand adventure of the dawn of the modern era in this short, powerful punch of a novel.
Critic Reviews:
"[T]he reader can get lost in the profusion of historical figures." (Publishers Weekly)
"[Narrator Robert Fass'] dry delivery style perfectly complements the whimsical nature of the story.... His approach allows the wonderfully eccentric text to speak for itself, enhanced by his authentic pronunciations as scenes cross international borders. This is a one-of-a-kind listen for people looking to try something a little different." (AudioFile)
Members Reviews:
Should be 2 and half stars, but no more.
Probably deserves a slightly better rating, but for this reader there was no choice as there is no in between for two stars (I Don't Like It) and three stars (It's OK).
The book probably does have a point, but what this is is most likely beyond the vast majority of reader's capability of deduction. Even the writer makes rather unusual remarks within the book about the purpose of the book.
If you must persist with reading this book, then have immediate access to the internet (at all times) so that you can endlessly search on the history of Spain's conquering of Mexico, Conquistadors & Mexicans (i.e. Aztecs, etc.), Catholic Rome & Catholic Europe and lots of various bishops of the times, and just a little bit of tennis (real old school).
The only positive thing I could take from the book was a heightened appetite for investigating the works of Carravagio. The rest was a mess and overload of mish-mashed history and fiction, which does little to draw the reader in.
Perhaps that is the very point of the book - to draw the reader into the history of the time. Unfortunately, it is just to much hard work for probably most readers.
Sorry, but thumbs down for me.
An Interesting Read With A Creative Plot
Some very interesting plot lines tied to theories and rumors about how Caravaggio died. One theory says he was playing tennis at the time of his death.
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Title: Sudden Death
Author: Álvaro Enrigue
Narrator: Robert Fass
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-09-16
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 28 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Sudden Death begins with a brutal tennis match that could decide the fate of the world. The bawdy Italian painter Caravaggio and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo battle it out before a crowd that includes Galileo, Mary Magdalene, and a generation of popes who would throw Europe into the flames. In England, Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII behead Anne Boleyn, and her crafty executioner transforms her legendary locks into the most sought-after tennis balls of the time. Across the ocean in Mexico, conquistador Hernán Cortés and his Mayan translator and lover, La Malinche, scheme and conquer, not knowing that their domestic comedy will change the world. And in a remote Mexican colony, a bishop reads Thomas More's Utopia and thinks that instead of a parody, it's a manual.
In this mind-bending, prismatic novel, worlds collide, time coils, traditions break down. There are assassinations and executions, hallucinogenic mushrooms, utopias, carnal liaisons and papal dramas, artistic and religious revolutions, love stories and war stories. A dazzlingly original voice and a postmodern visionary, Álvaro Enrigue tells a grand adventure of the dawn of the modern era in this short, powerful punch of a novel.
Critic Reviews:
"[T]he reader can get lost in the profusion of historical figures." (Publishers Weekly)
"[Narrator Robert Fass'] dry delivery style perfectly complements the whimsical nature of the story.... His approach allows the wonderfully eccentric text to speak for itself, enhanced by his authentic pronunciations as scenes cross international borders. This is a one-of-a-kind listen for people looking to try something a little different." (AudioFile)
Members Reviews:
Should be 2 and half stars, but no more.
Probably deserves a slightly better rating, but for this reader there was no choice as there is no in between for two stars (I Don't Like It) and three stars (It's OK).
The book probably does have a point, but what this is is most likely beyond the vast majority of reader's capability of deduction. Even the writer makes rather unusual remarks within the book about the purpose of the book.
If you must persist with reading this book, then have immediate access to the internet (at all times) so that you can endlessly search on the history of Spain's conquering of Mexico, Conquistadors & Mexicans (i.e. Aztecs, etc.), Catholic Rome & Catholic Europe and lots of various bishops of the times, and just a little bit of tennis (real old school).
The only positive thing I could take from the book was a heightened appetite for investigating the works of Carravagio. The rest was a mess and overload of mish-mashed history and fiction, which does little to draw the reader in.
Perhaps that is the very point of the book - to draw the reader into the history of the time. Unfortunately, it is just to much hard work for probably most readers.
Sorry, but thumbs down for me.
An Interesting Read With A Creative Plot
Some very interesting plot lines tied to theories and rumors about how Caravaggio died. One theory says he was playing tennis at the time of his death.