This is an auction for an audiobook of HOUSE OF NAMES by Colm Toibin.

Read by a full cast.

"Brilliant...Tóibín's accomplishment here is to render myth plausible while at the same time preserving its high drama... gripping... The selfish side of human nature is... made tangible and graphic in Tóibín's lush prose." Source: Booklist, STARRED review

"Clytemnsestra, narrating in the first person, is a captivating and terrifying figure, heartbroken and ruthless in her lust for power... Tóibín captures the way that corruption breeds resentment and how resentment almost unstoppably breeds violence." Source: Kirkus Reviews

“A taut retelling of a foundational Western story…this extraordinary book reads like a pristine translation rather than a retelling, conveying both confounded strangeness and timeless truths about love’s sometimes terrible and always exhilarating energies.” Source: Library Journal, Starred Review

"A dramatic, intimate chronicle of a family implosion set in unsettling times as gods withdraw from human affairs. Far from the Brooklyn or Ireland of his recent bestsellers, Tóibín explores universal themes of failure, loss, loneliness, and repression.” Source: Publishers Weekly, STARRED review

Amazon.com review:

"FIVE STARS!! This is an extraordinary book, retelling part of the Oresteia through the voices of some of its principals. The Greeks really knew how to do tragedy, killing relatives, having sex with the ones they didn't kill, betraying the ones they did or didn't, and so forth. Toíbín is a fabulous writer, understated in his powerful grasp of human psychology and existential emptiness."

More very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Seven compact discs 2017.

Running time: eight hours and forty-seven minutes.

Very good condition.

The cost of shipping is $5.50.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this audiobook from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.

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