DREAM OF FAIR TO MIDDLING WOMEN

Samuel Beckett's posthumously published first novel portrays the exuberant psyche of a young man named Malloy as he vacillates between the love of two women. Too scandalous to be published before the author's death, this stream-of-consciousness story was written by the Nobel Prize-winning author in 1932, before he had become a lyrical and existential force in literature. Narrator Peter Ganim takes control of this difficult work, expressing all the rage, lust, and energy that the young Beckett imagined and lived. Ganim delivers the author's complex syntax, dark humor, and esoteric vocabulary with zeal. A.W. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2013]