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Long Island Compromise
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
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Publisher's Summary
'Is this book as good [as Fleishman]? It's better' THE NEW YORK TIMES
'Might be a masterpiece' HUGH LAURIE
'The best book I've read this year' HARLAN COBEN
'Very, very good' ELIZABETH DAY
'The book of the summer, nay, the year' DAVID SEDARIS
'This book is DYNAMITE. Inhaled it in two sittings' CAITLIN MORAN
'Shocking, tender, profound and delicious' EMILY MAITLIS
'Lavishly comic' THE TIMES
'A lip-smacking tale' GUARDIAN
'Elegant and devastating' FINANCIAL TIMES
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble comes a darkly exhilarating novel about an American family and its inheritance - the safety and wealth that they fought for, and the precarity of their survival that is their legacy.
In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of the nicest part of Long Island. He is brutalised, held for ransom and then returned to his family. Miraculously, Carl, his wife and his three kids are left to move on with their lives, and resume their prized places in the ongoing saga of the American dream.
But nearly forty years later, when Carl's mother dies, the trauma that has been bubbling beneath the Fletchers' lives all this time surfaces at last. It becomes apparent that Carl has been quietly pursuing closure to the kidnapping for all these years, and his wife and children must face that the money that they believed bought them safety was actually never capable of doing any such thing.
Long Island Compromise spans generations, winding through decades of history all the way through to the wild present, dealing along the way with all the mainstays of American Jewish life and the timeless questions about wealth, trauma, and the American soul.
MORE PRAISE FOR LONG ISLAND COMPROMISE:
'The status book you'll want to be seen with' STYLIST
'[A] scabrous satire' THE NEW YORKER
'This author's talents are boundless' LA TIMES
'Substantive and profound' CATHY RENTZENBRINK
'Greatness so often comes at the expense of what is enjoyable. Long Island Compromise is both, and then some' IPAPER
'Exuberant and absorbing' ATLANTIC
[FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE was a Sunday Times bestseller (UK) in August 2019 and a New York Times bestseller (USA) in June 2019]
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- Robert Hitchins
- 21-07-2024
Blazing saddle bags
Ms B’s style is best described as maximalism, i.e. more is more, in contrast to minimalism where less is more. The resulting satire is often eye-waveringly funny, but can get wearing after a while, She doesn’t get to the “point”, if that’s what it was (I’m not sure I got it), until near the end when the details of the kidnapping come out. The narration by Eduardo Ballerini is excellent.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-08-2024
Families, generational heartbreak & hilarity , dysfunction & trauma all set up in modern day Long Island.
This story of a family trauma incident swept under the rug ..long held superstitions , the making & threat of loosing extreme wealth ..across generations. I enjoyed the Jewish family’s dynamic & the narrator was brilliant .
A well observed, at times jaw dropping story where you can’t help but get involved in all the characters …
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-10-2024
Amazing narrative and engaging
Clever read and immersive read - the story absorbs you into another world, its wonderful and intellectual
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- Anonymous User
- 25-07-2024
Brilliant story and AMAZINGLY read
Really sensational story. Absolutely adored it. Clever, funny, and highly engaging.
And the voice art is hands-down the best I’ve ever heard. Give this man a raise & more work!
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- Terri
- 27-08-2024
Something different!
It is a great read.This book is every emotion and more.I really liked it.Well done.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-09-2024
The performance is outstanding!
I didn’t want to stop listening, the performance was fantastic. Highly recommended, and will probably listen again soon.
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- Kim
- 18-10-2024
Drawn out... Boring
Takes forever to get to the point. Selfish characters who care only for themselves and little for each other! Kidnapping only explained in last 40mins of the book. Can't believe i finished it.
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