
The Copper Peacock and Other Stories
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Narrated by:
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Penelope Keith
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By:
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Ruth Rendell
About this listen
With deceptive economy in these nine short stories, Ruth Rendell indicates hidden depths in ordinary events and creates a sense of profound unease. The stories are: 'A Pair of Yellow Lilies', 'Paperwork', 'Mother’s Hel'p, 'Long Live the Queen', 'Dying Happy', 'The Copper Peacock', 'Weeds', 'The Fish-Sitter', and 'An Unwanted Woman'.
©1991 Kingsmarkham Enterprises Ltd (P)2014 Audible, Inc.loved the fact of the short story
Very well read
Good plot
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Clever but very unpleasant
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Good.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this collection! Some stories more than others, but the title story sticks out as one of those stories that truly gave me the shivers. I absolutely loved it, in spite of the bleakness of its subject matter.
Rendell renders self-obsessed, cruel, callous, bastard men exquisitely. Her writing reads, especially with the wonderful Peneolpe Keith Narration, in a rather play-like fashion, both morality and stage.
This definitely left me wanting to read more of her work and I will be looking out for and welcome recommendations from her wide library.
This Taught Me to Stop Being a Hipster and Read Everything
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I didn’t like the way the chapter endings often didn’t relate to the endings of the stories. This was confusing and also difficult to find a story beginning if you fell asleep or didn’t notice that one story had ended and another started.
The relative lack of variety in the reader’s voice made this more likely and vice-versa, and flattened the tone of the stories.
Stories OK chapter divisions strange
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A great listen
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Thank you so much
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Easy listening
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Wonderful listen
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A mixed bunch
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