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The Lacuna

By: Barbara Kingsolver
Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
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Born in the US and reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing mother, Salome. When a violent incident sends him to North Carolina, he remakes himself in America's hopeful image. But political winds continue to throw him between north and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach - the lacuna - between truth and public presumption.

©2009 Barbara Kingsolver (P)2009 Harper Collins Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Fiction
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I agree with the earlier review. The poor narration of this book has let the story down. Please use professional readers in the future.

The Lacuna

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Heartbreaking indictment of postwar paranoia and political persecution, infused with magic and love of Mexican culture. The author's performance in reading it is such a valuable thing.

Compelling and captivating

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Everyone who wants to understand how the USA became a world power and what hurts USers had to endure to render them numb to the suffering of others should read this book! We often think that the victors in a war simply benefit from its spoils. That too is true but in addition to that, ordinary people in the US were so terrified by war (in this case WWII) that they ended up as helpless victims of their own government when it came after their own civil liberties. Masterful and insightful storytelling from Barbara Kingsolver - I have listened to every one of her books read by herself and I am always delighted and moved and learn more of history with every one.

Exceptional history lesson

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This is the first Kingsolver book I've listened to and the writing sounds as if it's very good but the extraordinary monotone voice of the author is very hard to listen to. She enuciates every word very clearly but reads in a voice devoid of intonation or any suggestion of emotion or characterization. It seems very strange that the person who wrote the book, which seems to be very good with some beautiful evocative scenes, can read it in this awful, flat way.

Very flat monotone voice

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Take time over this, it felt wandering in places and the central character feels hard to get close to, but it’s a superb book and very moving as well as fascinating

Atmospheric, fascinating, slow moving

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