Literary Lives
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Run, River
- Auteur(s): Joan Didion
- Narrateur(s): Holly Cate
- Durée: 7 h et 32 min
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Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California. Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue to the pioneer experience, a story of murder and betrayal that only Didion could tell with such nuance, sympathy, and suspense.
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Run, River
- Narrateur(s): Holly Cate
- Durée: 7 h et 32 min
- Date de publication: 2013-03-12
- Langue: Anglais
- Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers....
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Olympus, Texas
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Stacey Swann
- Narrateur(s): Karissa Vacker
- Durée: 10 h et 17 min
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The Briscoe family is once again the talk of their small town when March returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother's wife. His mother, June, hardly welcomes him back with open arms. Her husband's own past affairs have made her tired of being the long-suffering spouse. Is it, perhaps, time for a change? Within days of March's arrival, someone is dead, marriages are upended, and even the strongest of alliances are shattered. In the end, the ties that hold them together might be exactly what drag them all down.
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Olympus, Texas
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Karissa Vacker
- Durée: 10 h et 17 min
- Date de publication: 2021-05-04
- Langue: Anglais
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The Briscoe family is once again the talk of their small town when March returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother's wife. His mother, June, hardly welcomes him back with open arms....
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Moonshine Over Georgia
- Auteur(s): Chris Skates
- Narrateur(s): Gary Barboza
- Durée: 8 h et 36 min
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As a small boy hunting in the deep Florida swamps, C.E. “Kid” Miller had to become a crack shot, or his five sisters would go hungry. Now, in the summer of 1946, Miller hunts Georgia moonshiners instead of game, and packs a Smith and Wesson instead of a double barrel.
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Moonshine Over Georgia
- Narrateur(s): Gary Barboza
- Durée: 8 h et 36 min
- Date de publication: 2023-05-04
- Langue: Anglais
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As a small boy hunting in the deep Florida swamps, C.E. “Kid” Miller had to become a crack shot, or his five sisters would go hungry. Now, in the summer of 1946, Miller hunts Georgia moonshiners instead of game, and packs a Smith and Wesson instead of a double barrel....
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The Interestings
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Meg Wolitzer
- Narrateur(s): Jen Tullock
- Durée: 15 h et 41 min
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The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age 15 is not always enough to propel someone through life at age 30; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence.
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Ugh
- Écrit par Diana M le 2021-02-03
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The Interestings
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Jen Tullock
- Durée: 15 h et 41 min
- Date de publication: 2013-04-09
- Langue: Anglais
- From best-selling author Meg Wolitzer a dazzling, panoramic novel about what becomes of early talent, and the roles that art, money, and even envy can play in close friendships....
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A Drop in the Ocean
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Jenni Ogden
- Narrateur(s): Cat Gould
- Durée: 9 h et 2 min
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On her 49th birthday, Anna Fergusson, Boston neuroscientist and dedicated introvert, arrives at an unwanted crossroads when the funding for her research lab is cut. With her confidence shattered and her future uncertain, on impulse she rents a cabin for a year on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. However Turtle Island, alive with sea birds and nesting Green turtles, is not the retreat she expected.
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A Drop in the Ocean
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Cat Gould
- Durée: 9 h et 2 min
- Date de publication: 2018-08-14
- Langue: Anglais
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Evocative and thought-provoking, A Drop in the Ocean is a story about second chances and hard lessons learned in the gentlest of ways....
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The Winter's Child
- Auteur(s): Cassandra Parkin
- Narrateur(s): Emma Gregory
- Durée: 11 h et 35 min
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Five years ago Susannah Harper's son, Joel, went missing without trace. Bereft of her son and then of her husband, Susannah has rebuilt her life around helping others. But then, on the last night of Hull Fair, a fortune-teller makes an eerie prediction. She tells her that this Christmas Eve, Joel will finally come back to her. As her carefully constructed life begins to unravel, Susannah is forced to confront the buried truths of her family's past.
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The Winter's Child
- Narrateur(s): Emma Gregory
- Durée: 11 h et 35 min
- Date de publication: 2017-12-07
- Langue: Anglais
- Five years ago Susannah Harper's son, Joel, went missing without trace. Bereft of her son and then of her husband, Susannah has rebuilt her life around helping others....
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As Close as Sisters
- Auteur(s): Colleen Faulkner
- Narrateur(s): Angela Dawe, Emily Durante, Julie McKay, Autres
- Durée: 9 h et 47 min
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Since the age of 12, McKenzie Arnold has spent every summer at Albany Beach, Delaware, with her best friends, Aurora, Janine, and Lilly. The seaside house teems with 30 years of memories - some wonderful, others painful - and secrets never divulged beyond its walls. This summer may be the last they spend together, as Janine contemplates selling her family cottage.
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As Close as Sisters
- Narrateur(s): Angela Dawe, Emily Durante, Julie McKay, Nicole Poole
- Durée: 9 h et 47 min
- Date de publication: 2016-02-16
- Langue: Anglais
- Since the age of 12, McKenzie Arnold has spent every summer at Albany Beach, Delaware, with her best friends, Aurora, Janine, and Lilly....
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The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
- Auteur(s): Penelope Lively
- Narrateur(s): Davina Porter
- Durée: 7 h et 6 min
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In such acclaimed novels as The Photograph, Family Album, and How It All Began, Penelope Lively has captivated readers and listeners with her singular blend of wisdom, elegance, and humor. Now, in her first story collection in decades, Lively takes up themes of history, family, and relationships across varied and vividly rendered settings.
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The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
- Narrateur(s): Davina Porter
- Durée: 7 h et 6 min
- Date de publication: 2017-05-09
- Langue: Anglais
- A glimmering collection of new short fiction from the Booker Prize winner and national best-selling author of How It All Began....
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The Farm
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Joanne Ramos
- Narrateur(s): Fran de Leon
- Durée: 13 h et 53 min
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Nestled in New York’s Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, personal fitness trainers, daily massages - and all of it for free. In fact, you’re paid big money to stay here - more than you’ve ever dreamed of. The catch? For nine months, you cannot leave the grounds, your movements are monitored, and you are cut off from your former life while you dedicate yourself to the task of producing the perfect baby. For someone else.
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Disappointing
- Écrit par Mitch R le 2019-07-14
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The Farm
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Fran de Leon
- Durée: 13 h et 53 min
- Date de publication: 2019-05-07
- Langue: Anglais
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Nestled in New York’s Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, personal fitness trainers, daily massages - and all of it for free. In fact, you’re paid big money to stay here - more than you’ve ever dreamed of....
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Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul
- Auteur(s): David Adams Richards
- Narrateur(s): Allen Robertson
- Durée: 11 h et 8 min
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Highly charged and profoundly important, Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul is a new masterpiece from one of Canada’s greatest writers. On a bright morning in June 1985, a young Micmac man starts his first day of work—but by noon he is dead, killed mysteriously in the fourth hold of the cargo ship Lutheran. Hector Penniac had been planning to go to university, perhaps to study medicine. Roger Savage, a loner who has had to make his own way since his youth, comes under suspicion of killing Hector over a union card and a morning’s work.
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Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul
- Narrateur(s): Allen Robertson
- Durée: 11 h et 8 min
- Date de publication: 2012-04-03
- Langue: Anglais
- Highly charged and profoundly important, Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul is a new masterpiece from one of Canada’s greatest writers.....
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The Pilot's Wife
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Anita Shreve
- Narrateur(s): Melanie Griffith
- Durée: 8 h et 48 min
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Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time.
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Good story... poor read
- Écrit par Krystal H. le 2019-03-01
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The Pilot's Wife
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Melanie Griffith
- Série: Fortune's Rocks Quartet, Livre 3
- Durée: 8 h et 48 min
- Date de publication: 2013-10-01
- Langue: Anglais
- Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone - but nothing has prepared her for the late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died....
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Lives of the Wives
- Five Literary Marriages
- Auteur(s): Carmela Ciuraru
- Narrateur(s): Erin Bennett
- Durée: 11 h et 54 min
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The history of wives is largely one of silence, resilience, and forbearance. Toss in celebrity, male privilege, ruthless ambition, narcissism, misogyny, infidelity, alcoholism, and a mood disorder or two, and it's easy to understand why the marriages of so many famous writers have been stormy, short-lived, and mutually destructive. "It's been my experience," as the critic and novelist Elizabeth Hardwick once wrote, "that nobody holds a man's brutality to his wife against him." Literary wives are a unique breed, requiring a particular kind of fortitude.
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Lives of the Wives
- Five Literary Marriages
- Narrateur(s): Erin Bennett
- Durée: 11 h et 54 min
- Date de publication: 2023-02-07
- Langue: Anglais
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The history of wives is largely one of silence, resilience, and forbearance. Toss in celebrity, male privilege, narcissism, misogyny, infidelity, alcoholism, and a mood disorder or two, and it's easy to understand why the marriages of so many famous writers have been stormy....
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Moon Palace
- Auteur(s): Paul Auster
- Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
- Durée: 12 h et 35 min
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Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.
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Moon Palace
- Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
- Durée: 12 h et 35 min
- Date de publication: 2009-08-11
- Langue: Anglais
- Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate....
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Lives of the Saints
- Auteur(s): Nino Ricci
- Narrateur(s): Marco Timpano
- Durée: 7 h et 28 min
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What really happened to Vittorio's mother that day in the stable? That she'd been bitten by a snake was clear enough: the swelling in the ankle proved it. But that other swelling, the one that led eventually to his mother's long, loose dresses, to those dark, cold stares from the other villagers - what strange thing could be taking shape there in his mother's belly, and what doom would it carry them all to?
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Lives of the Saints
- Narrateur(s): Marco Timpano
- Série: Lives of the Saints Series, Livre 1
- Durée: 7 h et 28 min
- Date de publication: 2020-09-29
- Langue: Anglais
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What really happened to Vittorio's mother that day in the stable? That she'd been bitten by a snake was clear enough: the swelling in the ankle proved it. But that other swelling, the one that led eventually to his mother's long, loose dresses....
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Crossroads
- A Novel (A Key to All Mythologies, Book 1)
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Franzen
- Narrateur(s): David Pittu
- Durée: 24 h et 56 min
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It's December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless - unless his brilliant and unstable wife, Marion, breaks free of it first. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college afire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father.
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ho hum characters in a long ho hum plot
- Écrit par fishface42 le 2024-02-01
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Crossroads
- A Novel (A Key to All Mythologies, Book 1)
- Narrateur(s): David Pittu
- Série: A Key to All Mythologies, Livre 1
- Durée: 24 h et 56 min
- Date de publication: 2021-10-05
- Langue: Anglais
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It's December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless - unless his brilliant and unstable wife, Marion, breaks free of it first....
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Tan poca vida [A Little Life]
- Auteur(s): Hanya Yanagihara, Aurora Echevarría Pérez - traductor
- Narrateur(s): Víctor Velasco, Xavi Fernández
- Durée: 29 h et 39 min
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Para descubrir eso y más, aquí está Tan poca vida, una historia que recorre más de tres décadas de amistad en la vida de cuatro hombres que crecen juntos en Manhattan. Cuatro hombres que tienen que sobrevivir al fracaso y al éxito y que, a lo largo de los años, aprenden a sobreponerse a las crisis económicas, sociales y emocionales. Cuatro hombres que comparten una idea muy peculiar de la intimidad, una manera de estar juntos hecha de pocas palabras y muchos gestos. Cuatro hombres cuya relación la autora utiliza para realizar una minuciosa indagación de los límites de la naturaleza humana.
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Tan poca vida [A Little Life]
- Narrateur(s): Víctor Velasco, Xavi Fernández
- Durée: 29 h et 39 min
- Date de publication: 2024-01-04
- Langue: Espagnol
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Una novela que sigue el hilo de la gran literatura norteamericana y que ha llegado para dar un nuevo sentido al silencio y un nuevo valor a las emociones....
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Trust (French Edition)
- Auteur(s): Hernan Diaz
- Narrateur(s): Alexandre Cardin, Anais Gabu, Pascal Germain, Autres
- Durée: 11 h et 27 min
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Wall Street traverse l'une des pires crises de son histoire. Nous sommes dans les années 1930, la Grande Dépression frappe l'Amérique de plein fouet. Un homme, néanmoins, a su faire fortune là où tous se sont effondrés. Héritier d'une famille d'industriels devenu magnat de la finance, il est l'époux aimant d'une fille d'aristocrates. Ils forment un couple que la haute société new-yorkaise rêve de côtoyer, mais préfèrent vivre à l'écart et se consacrer, lui à ses affaires, elle à sa maison et à ses oeuvres de bienfaisance.
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Trust (French Edition)
- Narrateur(s): Alexandre Cardin, Anais Gabu, Pascal Germain, Patricia Thibault
- Durée: 11 h et 27 min
- Date de publication: 2023-12-06
- Langue: Français
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Wall Street traverse l'une des pires crises de son histoire. Nous sommes dans les années 1930, la Grande Dépression frappe l'Amérique de plein fouet. Un homme, néanmoins, a su faire fortune là où tous se sont effondrés....
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The Deep End of the Ocean
- Auteur(s): Jacquelyn Mitchard
- Narrateur(s): Dana Ivey
- Durée: 3 h et 7 min
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Both highly suspenseful and deeply moving, The Deep End of the Ocean imagines every mother's worst nightmare - the disappearance of a child - as it explores a family's struggle to endure, even against extraordinary odds. Filled with compassion, humor, and brilliant observations about the texture of real life, here is a story of rare power, one that will touch listeners' hearts and make them celebrate the emotions that make us all one.
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The Deep End of the Ocean
- Narrateur(s): Dana Ivey
- Série: A Cappadora Family Novel (abridged), Livre 1
- Durée: 3 h et 7 min
- Date de publication: 2015-06-24
- Langue: Anglais
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Both highly suspenseful and deeply moving, The Deep End of the Ocean imagines every mother's worst nightmare - the disappearance of a child - as it explores a family's struggle to endure, even against extraordinary odds....
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The Slap
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Christos Tsiolkas
- Narrateur(s): Alex Dimitriades
- Durée: 15 h et 42 min
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At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the incident. In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the modern family and domestic life in the 21st century.
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Well written, juicy novel!
- Écrit par Ivanna le 2022-06-03
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The Slap
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Alex Dimitriades
- Durée: 15 h et 42 min
- Date de publication: 2010-01-03
- Langue: Anglais
- At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends....
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Music of a Life
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Andrei Makine, Geoffrey Strachen - translator
- Narrateur(s): Gregory St. John
- Durée: 2 h et 29 min
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May 24, 1941: Alexeï Berg, a classical pianist, is set to perform his first solo concert in Moscow. But just before his début, his parents - his father a renowned playwright, and his mother a famed opera singer - are exposed for their political indiscretions and held under arrest. With World War II on the brink, and fearing that his own entrapment is not far behind, Alexeï flees to the countryside, assumes the identity of a Soviet soldier, and falls dangerously in love with a general officer's daughter. What follows is a two-decades-long journey through war and peace, love and betrayal, art and artifice - a rare ensemble in the making of the music of a life.
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Music of a Life
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Gregory St. John
- Durée: 2 h et 29 min
- Date de publication: 2013-02-06
- Langue: Anglais
- May 24, 1941: Alexeï Berg, a classical pianist, is set to perform his first solo concert in Moscow....
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