
Another World
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Narrated by:
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Steven Crossley
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By:
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Pat Barker
Nick, his pregnant wife, their unruly toddler, and angry stepchildren have just moved into a Gothic manor in a rough part of Newcastle. Working unhappily together to fix up their living room, they discover an alarming portrait of a Victorian family beneath the old wallpaper. As the sins of that family seep into their lives, Nick must tend to his dying grandfather, who is dealing with his own past failures. Barker skillfully weaves these dark threads together until unspeakable violence seems ready to explode from every scene. Narrator Steven Crossley's mesmerizing performance highlights the novel's haunting quality and the intriguing questions it raises about past, present, and memory.
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Critic reviews
"Thoughtful, acutely observed and profoundly moving....Barker mixes brilliantly observed contemporary realism and mystical overtones with dazzling skill. The book has the grip of a superior thriller while introducing, with no sense of strain, a sense of sorrowful mortality that lingers long after the last page." (Publishers Weekly)
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This was a decent, but unexceptional book
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But the bulk of the story is about a grandson and his grandfather who is over 100 and has cancer.
That story reaches a conclusion.
All other storylines are left incomplete, as if the book is incomplete.
Well written but unsatisfying.
Really about death and dying
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The story is really about memory. How does trauma affect it? What about age? Is Geordie's memory stronger as he nears his death or is it less reliable. I like how the author questions the permanence and reliability of memory. She uses her characters to show us how memory is colored by our personal views and experiences. Memory changes and adapts. It is about perception. What we value at one point in our life differs from other times and those values affect what we remember and how we see things. And sometimes the memories are also affected by the stories we hear from others. They intertwine and meld together changing the story.
But for me the power of this book was about its exploration of death and grief. These moments between Nick and Geordie were quite beautiful. The emotions were real and raw and brought to my mind my own feelings about the last week of my father's life. I found myself wishing that he had been more alert and verbal during that time so that I could relive it and ask him a million questions, probing his memory regardless of its malleability. Explorations of death always resonate with me. It is one experience that we will all face. Losing a person we loved is a universal experience and the emotions that are triggered are parallel to those of others in the similar place.
explorations of memory, and death
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Not my favorite Pat Barker
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What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
Could not download the file was not broken apart and so it was too long to download so there is no way I can download and listen to it on the on the only device I haveWhat was most disappointing about Pat Barker’s story?
Could not downloadWho would you have cast as narrator instead of Steven Crossley?
NaIf you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Another World?
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