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- Release Date: 06/14/2011
- Publisher: Random House
- Classification: Fiction
- Classification: Fiction
- Series: N/A
- Language: English
- Format: Unabridged edition
- Genre: Literary, Romance & Friendship
- Author: Kate Christensen
- Read by: Donald Corren
- Duration: 584 minutes
- Run Time: 584 minutes
- Language: English
- Language: English
- Audio Library Digital - 9781611201062
- Audio Retail Digital - 9781611201055
- 8 Audio CD(s) - 9781611201048
- 1 Audio MP3 CD(s) - 9781611203462
- Playaway - 9781611202007
Audio Library Digital
06/14/2011
584 minutes
9781611201062
Audio Retail Digital
06/14/2011
584 minutes
9781611201055
Audio CD
06/14/2011
8 Audio CD
584 minutes
9781611201048
Audio MP3 CD
06/14/2011
1 Audio MP3 CD
584 minutes
9781611203462
Playaway
06/14/2011
584 minutes
9781611202007
Description:
The Astral is a huge rose-colored old pile of an apartment building in the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. For decades it was the happy home (or so he thought) of poet Harry Quirk and his wife, Luz, a nurse, and of their two children: Karina, now a fervent Freegan, and Hector, now in the clutches of a cultish Christian community. But Luz has found (and destroyed) some poems of Harry's that ignite her long-simmering suspicions of infidelity, and he's been summarily kicked out. He now has to reckon with the consequences of his literary, marital, financial, and parental failures, (and perhaps others) and find his way forward - and back into Luz's good graces.Quotes:
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...sharp, perceptive...provoking and at times profoundly moving...succeeds in its fond descriptions of a neighborhood virtually unknown outside of New York., The Associated Press
...sharp, perceptive...provoking and at times profoundly moving...succeeds in its fond descriptions of a neighborhood virtually unknown outside of New York., The Associated Press
Starred Review. ...unremittingly wonderful...Christensen takes a singular, genuine story and blows it up into a smart inquiry into the nature of love and the commitments we make..., Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. ...unremittingly wonderful...Christensen takes a singular, genuine story and blows it up into a smart inquiry into the nature of love and the commitments we make..., Publishers Weekly
A masterpiece of comedy and angst., Kirkus
A masterpiece of comedy and angst., Kirkus
On the best of 2011 list. A satisfying redoing of a man undone., Booklist
On the best of 2011 list. A satisfying redoing of a man undone., Booklist
Christensen succeeds impressively in inhabiting Harry's point of view. Donald Corran brings Christensen's large cast of characters, of which Brooklyn itself is one, to vivid, eccentric life., AudioFile Magazine
Christensen succeeds impressively in inhabiting Harry's point of view. Donald Corran brings Christensen's large cast of characters, of which Brooklyn itself is one, to vivid, eccentric life., AudioFile Magazine
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