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Caracole

By: Edmund White
Narrated by: Ken Kliban
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In French caracole means "prancing"; in English, "caper." Both words perfectly describe this high-spirited erotic adventure. In Caracole, White invents an entire world where country gentry languish in decaying mansions and foppish intellectuals exchange lovers and gossip in an occupied city that resembles both Paris under the Nazis and 1980s New York. To that city comes Gabriel, an awkward boy from the provinces whose social naïveté and sexual ardor make him endlessly attractive to a variety of patrons and paramours.

©1985 Edmund White (P)2014 Audible Inc.
Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

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"A seduction through language, a masque without masks, Caracole brings back to startling life a dormant strain in serious American writing: the idea of the romantic." (Cynthia Ozick)
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This great novel was completely ruined for me by this reader , who reads it like a news bulletin. I’m afraid I only lasted two chapters. Terrible performance.

Great novel , terrible reader.

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