Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby

The House on Via Gemito: A Novel by Domenico Starnone

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/794493 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/794493] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House on Via Gemito: A Novel Author: Domenico Starnone Narrator: Paul Bellantoni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 34 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR —the Washington Post & Kirkus Reviews A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE This extraordinary Strega Prize-winning novel confirms Domenico Starnone's reputation as one of Italy's greatest living writers. Told against the backdrop of Naples in the 1960s, a city that itself becomes a vivid character in this lush, atmospheric novel, The House on Via Gemito is a masterpiece of Italian fiction. A modest apartment in Via Gemito smelling of paint and turpentine. Its furniture pushed up against the wall to create a studio. Drying canvases moved from bed to floor each night. Federí, the father, a railway clerk, is convinced that he possesses great artistic promise. If it weren't for the family he must feed and the jealousy of his fellow artists, nothing would stop him from becoming a famous painter. Ambitious and frustrated, talented but also arrogant and resentful, Federí is scarred by constant disappointment. He is a larger-than-life character, a liar, a fabulist, and his fantasies shape the lives of those around him, especially his son, Mimi, who will spend a lifetime trying to get out from under his father's shadow.

Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798378 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798378] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Requiem for a Dream Author: Hubert Selby Narrator: William DeMeritt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: November 19, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A tale of four people trapped by their addictions—the basis for the acclaimed Darren Aronofsky film—by the author of Last Exit to Brooklyn. Sara Goldfarb is devastated by the death of her husband. She spends her days watching game shows and obsessing over appearing on television as a contestant—and her prescription diet pills only accelerate her mania. Her son, Harry, is living in the streets with his friend Tyrone and girlfriend Marion, where they spend their days selling drugs and dreaming of escape. When their heroin supply dries up, all three descend into an abyss of dependence and despair, their lives, like Sara’s, doomed by the destructive power of drugs. Tragic and captivating, Requiem for a Dream is one of Selby’s most powerful works and an indelible portrait of the ravages of addiction.

Broke Heart Blues: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/799655 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/799655] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Broke Heart Blues: A Novel Author: Joyce Carol Oates Narrator: Barton Caplan, Vas Eli, Finlay Stevenson, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Brittany Pressley, Linda Jones, Fred Berman, Cassandra Campbell, Joyce Carol Oates Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 36 minutes Release date: November 19, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The much-anticipated reissue of a novel that is one of Joyce Carol Oates’s personal favorites among her oeuvre; featuring a new afterword by Oates IN THE HEART OF A LANGUID JULY, ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOHN REDDY HEART drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac into the quiet upstate town of Willowsville, New York. His mother, Dahlia Heart, a blackjack dealer, has brought her family east from Las Vegas to claim the rambling mansion left to her by a wealthy suitor. But it is John Reddy—already growing into a heartbreaking hybrid of James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Elvis Presley—who will claim the town itself. It is John Reddy who will arouse the desire of Willowsville’s teenage girls and the worship of its boys, the fear and envy of its men, and the yearning of its women. And it is John Reddy who will capture the town’s soul forever on the night a prominent citizen is shot dead in Dahlia Heart’s bedroom—and a statewide manhunt sweeps Willowsville’s rebel outlaw into the realm of living myth. Over the course of thirty years, Broke Heart Blues charts the rise and fall—and the ultimate call to reckoning— of John Reddy Heart, through the myriad voices of those who find him their whipping boy, savior, dream lover, and confessor. At once a scathing indictment of the cultlike nature of fame and celebrity in America and a deeply moving mediation on human need and longing, the novel explores loneliness, and the profound price we pay for our desires and dreams.

The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/800362 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/800362] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Axeman's Carnival Author: Catherine Chidgey Narrator: Nic Sampson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 7, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTION AT THE 2023 OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS A dazzling portrayal of humanity and the natural world that perfectly balances violence and humor Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Marnie, and this is where his story might have ended. “If it keeps me awake,” says Marnie's husband Rob, a farmer, “I'll have to wring its neck.” But with Tama come new possibilities for the couple's future. Tama can speak, and his fame is growing. Outside, in the pines, his father warns him of the wickedness wrought by humans. Indoors, Marnie confides in him about her violent marriage. The more Tama sees, the more the animal and the human worlds—and all the precarity, darkness and hope within them—bleed into one another. Like a stock truck filled with live cargo, the story moves inexorably towards its dramatic conclusion: the annual Axeman's Carnival.

Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop: The ultimate gift for cosy fiction lovers by Kenji Ueda

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/797900 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/797900] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop: The ultimate gift for cosy fiction lovers Author: Kenji Ueda Narrator: Kenichiro Thomson, Hanako Footman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Release date: November 7, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From the publishers of the international bestseller Days at the Morisaki Bookshop comes a new book about the beauty of humble objects, the power of writing, and reconnecting with those you have lost. Write a letter, heal your heart . . . Hidden away in a corner of the Ginza neighbourhood is a venerable stationery shop. To venture inside is to find everything your stationery-loving heart desires, from the most delicate paper to fountain pens that fit exactly to the shape of your hand to gorgeously coloured inks. The shop owner intuits your every need, inviting you to take a seat at a small wooden table on the top floor, where you'll find the words flowing, helping you unlock repressed memories, secret longings and your own mysteries. To this shop comes a young company employee, uncertain in his career and needing a connection back to his past; the hostess of an elegant club; the vice-captain of a high-school archery team, an ageing businessman and a formerly homeless sushi chef. With impeccable manners and a warm demeanour, the shop owner helps each of them with more than just their stationery needs.