
The End of the Day
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Narrated by:
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Peter Kenny
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By:
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Claire North
A novel about life and death and a quest for moral purpose, by the acclaimed author of word-of-mouth best seller The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August.
Sooner or later, Death visits everyone. Before that, they meet Charlie: The Harbinger.
Sometimes he comes as a courtesy, sometimes as a warning. Either way, this will be the most important meeting of your life.
But who will come for Charlie?
©2017 Claire North (P)2017 Hachette AudioListeners also enjoyed...




















Critic reviews
"Wholly original and hauntingly beautiful." (Kirkus)
"Funny, ambitious, immensely humane and full of philosophical panache." (Sunday Times)
"A fascinating exploration of what makes us human -and a riveting journey through life, and death." (The Bookbag)
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The pacing is good, the chapters are bite-sized leading to easily listening in brief windows, or leading to a "just one more chapter" bingeing.
Narrator Peter Kenny gives life to the characters, with sufficient distinction in voices to be able to differentiate between them, and without them sounding like caricatures.
I highly recommend, with the caveat that this comes with a trigger warning. It includes contemplations of suicide, discussions of death, and some descriptions of traumatic experiences.
There are a number of what I find to be positive inclusions of LGBTQ representation throughout the novel, though the main character is not overtly LGBTQ.
The life of the Harbinger of Death...
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a hopeful story about the end
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Great Storytelling!
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I struggled and must have missed the point.
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No clear story
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Different, humanity's humanity
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Brilliant plot and brings the real world of life and death to light.
Everything
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I recommend this book as a masterpiece of literature and of superlative performance art. This book is a profoundly artistic eschatological statement that embodies and transcends human theocratic doctrine. Life is Death. Life is a summoning of Death. Death is an acknowledgement of Life, commingled, inseparable: a definition of life as an end to physical existence and inevitable renewal.What other book might you compare The End of the Day to and why?
Claire North is a unique and incomparable literary voice. The best way to comprehend it is to hear it performed by Peter Kenny, who is arguably one of the top 10 most accomplished narrators I have heard after listening to more than 500 audio books. His emotional and intellectual comprehension and rendering of a multitude of foreign language accents is worthy of a prolonged standing ovation for the finest theatrical performance on any stage, or through any performance medium.Which scene was your favorite?
The entire book is a interconnected single scene accented by the profoundly rhythmic literary style of the author: poetic drama comparable to a Shakespearean play.Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Awe and Wonder.DEATH IS LIFE
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meandering
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Weirdly Enjoyable Meandering Dream
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