Blue Ruin
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Narrated by:
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Hari Kunzru
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By:
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Hari Kunzru
About this listen
It's 2020, and Jay lives out of his car, working as a delivery driver in wealthy upstate New York. Sick and undocumented, Jay arrives at an enormous mansion and collapses from exhaustion --- right at the feet of Alice, whom he had hoped he would never see again. Twenty years on, and while Jay teeters on the edge, she's married the man she left him for; Jay's former best friend and fellow artist, Rob. Ashamed, Jay hopes she won't recognize him behind his dirty surgical mask, but when she does, she invites him to recover on the property, setting the stage for a devastating reckoning that's been decades in the making.
Gripping and brilliantly orchestrated, Blue Ruin moves back and forth through time to deliver an extraordinary portrait of an artist as he reunites with his past and confronts the world he once loved and left behind. This is a novel suffused with tension and melancholy; an ode to an iconic art scene from an author at the height of his powers.©2024 Hari Kunzru (P)2024 Simon & Schuster, UK
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 21-05-24
Closure
This book should be called closure. I’m not really sure what the whole point of this was. The characters are well fleshed out but the plot is a little meh. There is a distinct beginning middle and end but it’s nothing to write home about. Also it’s very heavy on the art
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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Story2 out of 5 stars
- Tony Foster
- 20-08-24
Blue Ruined, Great writer, one-dimensional narrator.
I’m a fan of Mr Kunzru and Blue Ruin is a bitingly cynical takedown of the art world wrapped in a love story circumnavigated through Covid. His decision to narrate his own books is unfortunate in my opinion. There are many talented narrators who would have done a much better job. The characters are hard to differentiate with his somewhat deadpan, unvarying tones. At one stage (much later in the book) he seems to remember one of his characters is Mancunian and quite unexpectedly adds a hitherto absent (and unintentionally hilarious) Yorkshire timbre to his speech. The same unimmersive reading style blighted Red Pill also. Stick to what you’re best at, Hari!
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Bindervelt
- 16-11-24
Art and Craftiness
Not quite up there with God's and Men but an interesting take on the fakery and commercial in modern art
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