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Border Districts
- Narrated by: Andrew Martin
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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Summary
A man moves from a capital city to a remote town in the border country, where he intends to spend the last years of his life. It is time, he thinks, to review the spoils of a lifetime of seeing, a lifetime of reading. Which sights, people, books, fictional characters, turns of phrase and lines of verse will survive into the twilight? Feeling an increasing urgency to put his mental landscape in order, the man sets to work cataloguing his memories, little knowing what secrets they will yield and where his ‘report’ will lead.
Border Districts is a jewel of a farewell from one of the greatest living writers of English prose. Short-listed for the 2018 Miles Franklin Award on publication in Australia, this is Murnane’s first work to be published in the UK in 30 years.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-02-24
Unusual arms length writers voice, interesting but did not enjoy the narrator
Sadly, I found the audible performance stilted and emotionless, I would prefer to read this myself, as the narration was particularly flat and not engaging.
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- James Thomas
- 24-01-24
Unbelievably pretentious
Pained me to keep listening . I swore that if he said one more time, while I was writing the previous sentence, I would stamp on my iPhone. Fortunately, it just ended.
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- Sharon
- 14-05-19
Unfortunately, I will never know.
I am wondering if these ramblings will ever culminate in a great conclusive point.
Unfortunately I will never know as I feel I am just wasting the time I am listening to this, there is no entertainment, educational or cultural value.
I have abandoned this book, there just seems no point in carrying on.
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