All the Little Live Things
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All the Little Live Things
Narrated by:
Edward Herrmann
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Narrated by:
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Edward Herrmann
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By:
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Wallace Stegner
About this listen
Joe Allston, the retired literary agent in Stegner’s National Book Award-winning novel The Spectator Bird, returns in this disquieting and keenly observed novel.
Scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the engulfing chaos of the 1960s, Allston and his wife, Ruth, have left the coast for a California retreat. And although their new home looks like Eden, it also has its serpents: Jim Peck, a messianic exponent of drugs, yoga, and sex, and Marian Catlin, an attractive young woman whose otherwordly innocence is far more appealing—and far more dangerous.
©1967 Wallace Stegner (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...
Critic reviews
“Timely and timeless....Will hold any reader to its last haunting page.” ( Chicago Tribune)
“A novel of crackling vividness.” ( New York Times Book Review)
Absolutely heartbreaking but brilliant
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Bittersweet story beautifully read
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Even at double speed it took me 3 or 4 times as long to finish it than it should have. I found myself almost dreading turning it on.
It's just so very, very BORING!!
I didn't care whatsoever about any of the characters - not the grumpy, sardonic main character nor the supposedly vivacious neighbour ("supposedly" because we're told she is but we don't really see much evidence of it for ourselves).
The problem for me is that while there were a few moments where the language was quite poignant and beautiful, most of the time I found it to be contrived and affected.
Even with the subject matter at hand - something that should really pull on heart strings, it manages to be just massively dull, uninspired and wholly impersonal.
I was constantly aware of the author trying to sound genuine by using emotive and evocative language, but it just felt like exactly that - TRYING so hard to sound genuine rather than naturally being so.
All the Little Live Things
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