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THE FUN STUFF And Other Essays

Earphones Award Winner

by | Read by Simon Vance

Contemporary Culture • 12.25 hrs. • Unabridged • © 2012

Simon Vance’s well-known capacity for blending in with a text works to good effect in this mixed collection of essays and reviews. Compilations are uneven by nature and, even for a critic of Wood’s caliber, are devils of discontinuity. Vance finds in Wood’s eclectic and associative style a natural flow of ideas, references, and fresh insights. Wood, a regular contributor to THE NEW YORKER, writes with equal penetration on Keith Moon and Leo Tolstoy; he mixes Hardy, Orwell, and Edmund Wilson with W.G. Sebald and Kazuo Ishiguro—and six or eight others you may not even have heard of. They all meet compatibly in Vance’s measured and seamless delivery, and the result is a highly satisfying and thought-provoking demonstration of the critical mind at work. D.A.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine [Published: NOVEMBER 2012]

Trade Ed. • Blackstone Audio • 2012

CD ISBN 9781470840600 $32.95 • Ten CDs

MP3-CD ISBN 9781470840587 $29.95 • One MP3-CDs

DD ISBN multiple sources

 

Library Ed. • Blackstone Audio • 2012

CD ISBN 9781470840617 $105.00 • Ten CDs

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