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The Story of Forgetting [With Headphones] [Audio]
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Stefan Merrill Block, Patrick Girard Lawlor
This item is unavailable.We will email you if this item comes back into stock. | Rating: | | | Format: | Audio Cassette | | Other Information: | Relay time: 630min; Includes Headphones | | Published In: | United States, 01 October 2008 |
Abel Haggard is an elderly hunchback who haunts the remnants of his family's farm in the encroaching shadow of the Dallas suburbs, adrift in recollections of those he loved and lost long ago. As a young man, he believed himself to be "the one person too many"; now he is all that remains. |
ReviewsPatrick Lawlor reads the precocious Block's first novel with two markedly different voices for its two protagonists. The hunchbacked, memory-obsessed Abel Haggard is given a broad Southern accent that remains remarkably precise, considering its exaggerated pitch, and Seth Waller, the teenager trapped in an unhappy family, in search of an explanation for his mother's mysterious illness, receives a much flatter, less remarkable, even reading. Lawlor's technique swiftly and easily divides the book's two halves, but his Abel rapidly grows painful to listen to as he is too exaggerated to be much more than a stereotype. Sounding neither convincing nor mellifluous, Lawlor's Abel holds back this otherwise solid audiobook. A Random House hardcover (Reviews, Feb. 4). (July) Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
| Publisher: | Findaway World | | ISBN: | 1606406930 |
| EAN: | 9781606406939 | | Dimensions: | 20.07 x 11.94 x 3.05 centimeters (0.16 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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