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Title: The Vices

Author: Lawrence Douglas

Narrator: Andy Caploe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Oliver Vice, 41, prominent philosopher, scholar, and art collector, is missing and presumed dead, over the side of Queen Mary 2.

Troubled by his friends possible suicide, the unnamed narrator of Lawrence Douglas new novel launches an all-consuming investigation into Vices life history. Douglas, moving backward through time, tells a mordantly humorous story of fascination turned obsession, as his narrator peels back the layers of the Vice familys rich and bizarre history. At the heart of the family are Francizka, Olivers handsome, overbearing, vaguely anti-Semitic Hungarian mother, and his fraternal twin brother, Bartholomew, a gigantic and troubled young man with a morbid interest in Europes great tyrants. As the narrator finds himself drawn into a battle over the familys money and art, he comes to sense that someone - or perhaps the entire family - is hiding an unsavory past. Pursuing the truth from New York to London, from Budapest to Portugal, he remains oblivious to the irony of the search: that in his need to understand Vices life, he is really grappling with ambivalence about his own.

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