House of meetings
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the "House of meetings". The consequences of these liaisons were almost invaria...
| Main Author: | Amis, Martin. |
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| Corporate Authors: | BBC Audiobooks America. |
| Other Authors: | Woodman, Jeff. |
| Format: | Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook |
| Language: | English |
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[North Kingstown, R.I.] :
BBC Audiobooks America,
2007.
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| Summary: |
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the "House of meetings". The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. "House of meetings" is about one such liaison. It is a triangular romance: two brothers fall in love with the same girl, a nineteen-year-old Jewess, in Moscow, which is poised for massacre in the gap between the war and the death of Stalin. Both brothers are arrested, and their rivalry slowly complicates itself over a decade in the slave camp above the Arctic Circle. |
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| Item Description: |
"Sound library." Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 7:19:59. |
| Playing Time: |
07:19:59 |
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Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 105401 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: |
9780792748212 0792748212 |
| Author Notes: |
Amis published his first novel, The Rachel Papers, in 1973, which received the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award in 1974. Other titles include Dead Babies (1976), Other People: A Mystery Story (1981); London Fields (1989), The Information (1995), and Night Train (1997). Martin Amis has been called the voice of his generation. His novels are controversial, often satiric and dark, concentrating on urban low life. His style has been compared to that of Graham Greene, Philip Larkin and Saul Bellow, among others. He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. (Bowker Author Biography) |