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Author Tóibín, Colm, 1955-

Title House of names : a novel / Colm Toibin.

Imprint [New York] : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2017.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  BCD F TOIBIN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  CDBOOK FIC TOIBIN, C    Check Shelf
Edition Unabridged.
Description 7 audio discs (9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 090000
Note Title from web page.
Performer Read by Juliet Stevenson, Charlie Anson, Pippa Nixon.
Note Compact discs.
Summary Colm Toibin brings a modern sensibility and language to an ancient classic, and gives this extraordinary character new life, so that listeners not only believe Clytemnestra's thirst for revenge, but applaud it. He brilliantly inhabits the mind of one of Greek myth's most powerful villains to reveal the love, lust, and pain she feels. Told in fours parts, this is a fiercely dramatic portrait of a murderess, who will herself be murdered by her own son, Orestes. It is Orestes' story, too: his capture by the forces of his mother's lover Aegisthus, his escape and his exile. And it is the story of the vengeful Electra, who watches over her mother and Aegisthus with cold anger and slow calculation, until, on the return of her brother, she has the fates of both of them in her hands.
Subject Clytemnestra, Queen of Mycenae -- Fiction.
Orestes, King of Argos (Mythological character) -- Fiction.
Electra (Greek mythological figure) -- Fiction.
Revenge -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Audiobooks.
Added Author Stevenson, Juliet.
Anson, Charlie.
Nixon, Pippa, 1980-
ISBN 9781508227908
150822790X
Standard No. 9781508227908
Music No. 11675055
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