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Dunbar
- King Lear Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
- Narrated by: Henry Goodman
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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Summary
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Dunbar by Edward St Aubyn, read by Henry Goodman.
'I really did have an empire, you know,' said Dunbar. 'Have I ever told you the story of how it was stolen from me?'
Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over care of the family firm to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan. But relations quickly soured, leaving him doubting the wisdom of past decisions....
Now imprisoned in a care home in the Lake District with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is hot on his heels. But who will find him first, his beloved youngest daughter, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so keen to divest him of his estate?
Edward St Aubyn is renowned for his masterwork, the five Melrose novels, which dissect with savage and beautiful precision the agonies of family life. Dunbar is a devastating family story and an excoriating novel for and of our times - an examination of power, money and the value of forgiveness.
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- Andrew May
- 28-03-18
No ending?
Don’t know if I’m missing a final chapter but lots and lots of loose ends to what was a very enjoyable story
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- Catherine
- 27-11-19
Very absorbing
I really rate this author... And the reader is no slouch either. While the Patrick Melrose novels have a cast list of really awful posh people, this is a narrative of really awful rich people with their relationships drawn by analogies with King Lear and his (mostly) dreadful entourage.
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- Roy Pierce-Jones
- 01-11-17
Good in places.
This is one of the weaker attempts at adapting Shakespeare into contemporary fiction. The book works best when it deals directly with Dunbar/Lear and is less interesting dealing with the daughters as they seem to have been given too much coverage here.I am not too sure about the American setting either as I cannot help thinking it only distances the tale rather than further illuminating Shakespeare's text.The lack of Shakespeare's poetic greatness in this particular play is never overcome.A brave attempt never the less.
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