Affliction by Russell Banks

How to Be Somebody Else by Miranda Pountney

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/380039 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/380039] to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Be Somebody Else Author: Miranda Pountney Narrator: Florence Howard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: February 15, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Exquisitely written, sublimely fraught and erotically charged, How to Be Somebody Else is an uncoming of age in New York City Spring 2015, New York. On the surface Dylan has achieved the impossible - a life in New York, eight years of making this stick. And yet it is not the thing she'd imagined (what had she imagined?). When she walks out of her career, then apartment, and into a housesit for an artist she's never met, she does not tell her friends, her parents back in England, or Matt, her boyfriend, living on the West Coast. Job-free, rent-free, she'll make good on her book, herself, other things too, she's thinking, when her neighbour Kate shows up and invites her to a party. There she meets Gabe, who happens to be married to Kate but insists, 'it's not a thing'. The affair that follows consumes her and she begins to consider what is fixed and what is variable. Can a person be both? Is Gabe the thing he seems? Is she? As spring turns to summer, her experiments in living test loyalties and boundaries until an unexpected encounter between the two couples forces her to confront her future. ©2024 Miranda Pountney (P)2024 Penguin Audio

The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/379547 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/379547] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sweet Hereafter Author: Russell Banks Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky, Dawn Harvey, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Dominic Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 27, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ''Rich in imagery and the detail of small-town life and haunting in its portrayal of ordinary men and women struggling to understand loss. Under Mr. Banks's restrained craftsmanship, what begins as the story of senseless tragedy is transformed into an aspiring testament to hope and human resilience.'' — Atlanta Constitution In The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks tells a story that begins with a school bus accident. Using four different narrators, Banks creates a small-town morality play that addresses one of life's most agonizing questions: when the worst thing happens, who do you blame? Here is a stunning novel of ''compelling moral suspense'' (Los Angeles Times Book Review) from one of America's greatest storytellers.

Trailerpark by Russell Banks

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/379548 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/379548] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trailerpark Author: Russell Banks Narrator: Kevin Kenerly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 27, 2020 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ''Each story is uncommonly good. . . surprising, lively writing and believably human characters. . . . Banks has a terrific eye, mordant yet affectionate, for the bric-a-brac and the pathos of the American dream.'' — Washington Post Book World In this series of related short stories, acclaimed author Russell Banks offers gripping, realistic portrayals of individual Americans and paints a portrait of New England life that is at once dark, witty, and revealing. Get to know the colorful cast of characters at the Granite State Trailerpark, where Flora in number 11 keeps more than a hundred guinea pigs and screams at people to stay away from her babies, Claudel in number 5 thinks he is lucky until his wife burns down their trailer and runs off with Howie Leeke, and Noni in number 7 has telephone conversations with Jesus and tells the police about them.

Affliction by Russell Banks

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/379549 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/379549] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Affliction Author: Russell Banks Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 27, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ''Banks has taken on a profound theme, the ruinous and awful affliction of violence that seems to live like a secret blood-disease handed down in men like Wade. . . . He turns it into a living art that can bring recognition and awe.'' — Los Angeles Book Review ''A masterwork of contemporary American fiction'' (Chicago Tribune) from one of the most acclaimed and important writers of our time Wade Whitehouse is an improbable protagonist for a tragedy. A well-digger and policeman in a bleak New Hampshire town, he is a former high-school star gone to beer fat, a loner with a mean streak. It is a mark of Russell Banks's artistry and understanding that Wade comes to loom in one's mind as a blue-collar American Everyman afflicted by the dark secret of the macho tradition. Told by his articulate, equally scarred younger brother, Wade's story becomes as spellbinding and inexorable as a fuse burning its way to the dynamite.

Passing: Penguin Classics by Nella Larsen

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/382194 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/382194] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Passing: Penguin Classics Author: Nella Larsen Narrator: Amaka Okafor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Amaka Okafor, an acclaimed stage actress and composer who performs all over the country at venues such as The National Theatre, The Old Vic and National Theatre Scotland. A classic, brilliant and layered novel that has been at the heart of racial identity discourse in America for almost a century. Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage and has severed all ties to her past. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community, but refuses to acknowledge the racism that continues to constrict her family's happiness. A chance encounter forces both women to confront the lies they have told others - and the secret fears they have buried within themselves. © Nella Larsen 1929 (P) Penguin Audio 2020