Let It Come Down
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Tom Zahner
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Raphael Corkhill
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By:
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Paul Bowles
About this listen
In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism.
Fabulous
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The narration is awful, so over dramatic, perhaps suited to a horror story but every single sentence is so ominously spoken it’s ridiculous and subtracts from the text. However for me the text wasn’t much better. The 8-minute preface is basically a spoiler giving away the next 12 hours of painfully slow plot. ‘Suddenly this…’ ‘suddenly that…’ say suddenly one more time, I dare you. The description of being under the influence of weed and heroin I found childlike, and did nothing to add to the story line. I don’t know why I persevered with it, I wish I hadn’t, I got nothing out of it, like having a tooth drilled it was a relief when it was over.
Excruciating
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