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The Pisces
- Narrated by: Isabella Inchbald
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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The Pisces
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Publisher's Summary
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
Profoundly modern, deeply disturbed and darkly comic, The Pisces is about heartbroken PhD student who over one summer falls in dangerous, ecstatic love with a merman.
Lucy, staying in a beautiful home overlooking Venice Beach, can find no peace from her misery - not in therapy, not in Tinder hookups, not in her sister's dog's unquestioning devotion, not in ruminating on the ancient Greeks. Yet everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer one night while sitting alone on the beach rocks....
Pairing neurotic hilarity with pulse-racing carnality and fierce feminism, The Pisces is hot, bothered and unforgettable. Traversing the lines between fantasy and reality, it explores the questions of how and why we stay alive. This fairy-tale romance with a merman could just be the sanest and most human novel you listen to all year.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-06-2023
Little to no story line
I'm sure there was a message behind this book but I missed it.
Couple of juicy scenes but not worth writing home about.
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- JHA
- 11-03-2019
Best performance of the year
Well performed. Many accents helped distinguish the characters voices. I will look for other work by this reader.
Main character is angry and depressed and occasionally unlikable but her honesty allowed me to like her enough to want to keep reading her story. I liked the ending.
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- Krystal
- 02-10-2024
Loved the morale of the story!
Very entertaining! Lots of laughs! I felt as though I was listening to someone’s very intrusive thoughts!
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- Anonymous User
- 17-03-2024
Not finished
I persisted but couldn’t get to the end. Life is too short. The women on this journey are shallow, laced with self hate in a dystopian setting. I should have stopped after the description of a dog defecating. This was not for me.
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- Angel
- 03-01-2024
Melissa Broder hates women
I’m so annoyed I wasted time reading another one of Melissa Broder’s books, she has never written a likeable female character (writing unlikeable women is a beautiful art) but one must think this is just a mirror of Melissa herself as she merely copy/pastes the same ‘main character’ every time, uncaring, self involved, misogynistic, racists (there is never a person of colour in a Melissa Broder book) who is ultimately always given this odd redemption tour, but actually the characters to me at least feel by the time you suffocate on the last page, that they are colder one dimensional sociopaths than you initially observed on page one. A huge trigger warning to any animal lovers too. Particularly dogs.
Also her vernacular and vocabulary is so rudimentary, how is this person still getting book deals?! Eugh. Zero stars.
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