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The Married Man

A Novel

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The Married Man

By: Edmund White
Narrated by: Ken Kliban
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About this listen

In Edmund White's most moving novel yet, an American living in Paris finds his life transformed by an unexpected love affair.

Austin Smith is pushing fifty, loveless and drifting, until one day he meets Julien, a much younger, married Frenchman. In the beginning, the lovers' only impediments are the comic clashes of culture, age, and temperament. Before long, however, the past begins to catch up with them. In a desperate quest to save health and happiness, they move from Venice to Key West, from Montreal in the snow to Providence in the rain. But it is amid the bleak, baking sands of the Sahara that their love is pushed to its ultimate crisis.

©2000 Edmund White (P)2014 Audible Inc. Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Fiction

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Again with White autobiographical novel that seems curiously uninvolving. Narrator was terrible. Didn't help things.

More of the same from White

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Nearly spoilt by staccato, monotonous, and aggressive phraseology of narrator. Do persevere as well worth it, despite sad and tragic ending.

Frustrated by Narration

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What is it with this? Narrator who has no sense of what, a sentence, means. If you like a surprise. Ending, he may be the man for you. But otherwise probably. Not.
So bad is the performance that it’s hard to judge the book. But broadly a work-a-day effort from White. Fun if you enjoy his love affair with France and his dropping of (imaginary) names.

Unlisten, able

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I liked some of his previously published works, but thus was tediously long winded and drawn out

Tediously to long

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