Voices in the night : stories
(2015)

Nonfiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2015
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
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1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 31 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781490676050 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT13522708, 1490676058 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 13522708
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan, Jonathan Davis, and Adam Grupper

From the Pulitzer and Story Prize winner: sixteen new stories--provocative, funny, disturbing, magical--that delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, alongside retellings of myths and legends that highlight the aspirations of the human spirit. Beloved for the lens of the strange he places on small-town life, Steven Millhauser further reveals inVoices in the Night the darkest parts of our inner selves to brilliant and dazzling effect. Here are stories of wondrously imaginative hyperrealism, stories that pose unsettling what-ifs or that find barely perceivable evils within the safe boundaries of our towns, homes, and even our bodies. Here, too, are stories culled from religion and fables: from Samuel, who in the masterly "A Voice in the Night" hears the voice of God calling him in the night; to a young, pre-enlightenment Buddha; to Rapunzel and her Prince awakened only to everyday disappointment. Heightened by magic, the divine, and the uncanny, shot through with sly humor,Voices in the Night seamlessly combines the whimsy and surprise of the familiar with intoxicating fantasies that take us beyond our daily lives, all done with the hallmark sleight of hand and astonishing virtuosity of one of our greatest modern storytellers

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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