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The Nix

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The Nix

Auteur(s): Nathan Hill
Narrateur(s): Ari Fliakos
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 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, a novel that explores—with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness—the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change.

“A mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but it’s also a tragicomedy about anger and sanctimony in America.... Nathan Hill is a maestro.” —John Irving

It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson—college professor, stalled writer—has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn’t seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she’s re-appeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the internet, and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she’s facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel’s help.

To save her, Samuel will have to embark on his own journey, uncovering long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew, secrets that stretch across generations and have their origin all the way back in Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. As he does so, Samuel will confront not only Faye’s losses but also his own lost love, and will relearn everything he thought he knew about his mother, and himself. Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique Littérature et fiction Spirituel Sincère Jeux vidéo

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Winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book
Entertainment Weekly's #1 Book of the Year
A Washington Post 2016 Notable Book
A Slate Top Ten Book

“If any novel defied an elevator pitch in 2016, it was The Nix. Acid critique of millennial entitlement, videogame addiction, and clueless academia; tender meditation on childhood friendship, first loves, and maternal abandonment; handy tutorial on ’60s radicalism and Norwegian ghost mythology: Nathan Hill’s magnificently overstuffed debut contains multitudes, and then some. . . . the story surges, ricocheting from sleepy ’80s suburbia and the 1968 DNC riots to WWII-era Norway, post-9/11 Iraq, and beyond. It’s not just that Hill is a brilliantly surreal social satirist in the gonzo mode of Don DeLillo or Thomas Pynchon (a male news anchor’s face is ‘smooth as cake fondant’; one doomed union is ‘like a spoon married to a garbage disposal’), it’s that he does it all with so much wit and style and heart.” —Entertainment Weekly (Best Book of 2016)

“A fantastic novel about love, betrayal, politics and pop culture—as good as the best Michael Chabon or Jonathan Franzen.” —People

“It broke my heart, this book. Time after time. It made me laugh just as often. I loved it on the first page as powerfully as I did on the last.” —NPR.org

“Funny, endlessly inventive. . . . [a] wild tragicomic tangle of [Hill’s] imagination.” —Entertainment Weekly (A-)

“Hill has so much talent to burn that he can pull of just about any style, imagine himself into any person and convincingly portray any place or time. The Nix is hugely entertaining and unfailingly smart, and the author seems incapable of writing a pedestrian sentence or spinning a boring story. . . . [A] supersize and audacious novel of American misadventure.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Irresistible. . . . A major new comic novelist . . . . Hill is a sharp social observer, hyper-alert to the absurdities of modern life. . . . his enormous book arrives as one of the stars of the fall season. . . . readers will find this novel. And they’ll be dazzled.” —The Washington Post

“Hill is an uncommonly profound observer, illuminating much about the relationships between parents and children. . . . Nathan Hill is an important new writer, able to variously make readers laugh out loud while providing a melancholy, resonant tale.” —USA Today (4/4 Stars)

"[A] great sprawling feast of a first novel. . . . Hill writes with an astonishingly sure hand for a young author. . . . let's just call him the real thing." —Newsday
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After listening, this story stayed with me for a long time. It was very thought provoking and I enjoyed the story a lot.
The narrator does a great job of depicting the numerous characters in this story.

stays with you

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I really didn’t enjoy the narrator. I found most of his voices for the different characters very South Park-esque. I would have preferred him to read everyone in his normal voice. That aside, I didn’t really care about most of the characters until towards the end. That’s a long way to go before finally feeling some kind of affinity for them. Kind of weak sense of place, other than maybe Norway scenes.

Last hour so I finally got into it

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The narrator of the novel brought the story to life. By using different voices for each character, it almost felt like I was watching a movie rather than listening to a book. His talent for reading is the best I have ever experienced next to the narrator from Shantaram. An excellent story line exquisitely performed.

Fantastic narrator!

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I struggled with this book, while driving thinking OMG.. this is going to be the longest 21 hour book EVER!! The month of November is going to be LOOOONG... So It did take me a bit of time to get used to the narrators voice... I owe this to my many British audibles I've been hung up on. I also wasn't interested in listening to the story of a young boys life... since I work with dysfunctional youth.. well most anyways. However I pushed through, and really started enjoying my drive, laughing out loud.. at times .. which is rare .. How the choices the characters made, affected their lives, how the ideal world is just as messed up as own reality. The metaphors and folklore's throughout where sad but somewhat real to our own dreams. Little long on the game territorials.. that stupid game.. But in the end my daily drives to and from work, were embraced with the anticipation of what was going to happen next in the Nix.. warning alert.. my inner voice is sounding a bit like Ari.. Oh my.. note to self, stick to shorter audibles.! Thought provoking and interesting story.

My daily commute

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The story is compelling and rich with detail, filled with moments of action and intrigue that kept me hooked all the way through.
What stood out most was the narrator’s mastery. Each character was given a distinct tone and personality, making them come alive in a way that felt natural and immersive.
The structure of the book also flowed beautifully, balancing description, dialogue, and pacing so that I never lost interest.
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this audiobook. It drew me in from the start and held my attention until the very end.
I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys a well-told story brought to life by skillful narration.

Outstanding performance of the narrator

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