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The Nix

By: Nathan Hill
Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
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About this listen

Nathan Hill's brilliant debut, The Nix, journeys from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street; from Chicago in 1968, to wartime Norway: home of the mysterious Nix.

Meet Samuel: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. He hasn't seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically motivated crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, and inflames a divided America. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she's facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel's help.

As Samuel begins to excavate his mother's, and his country's, history, he will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink everything he ever knew about her - a woman with an epic story of her own, a story she has kept hidden from the world.

©2016 Nathan Hill (P)2016 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Action & Adventure Americas Dark Humour Europe Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Political Scandinavia United States Fiction Funny Heartfelt Inspiring Thought-Provoking Witty Video Game Comedy

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"The best new writer of fiction in America. The best." (John Irving)
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Wow....amazing.., refreshingly different,; totally engaging and inspiring... A truly wonderful depiction of humanity with all its failings through famiky generations,; yet ultimately optimistic and hopeful for the future... Cannot wait for Nathan Hill's 2nd novel...

Brilliant!

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I don’t think I’d have stuck with this had I read it. But as a listen it was great. Really long but extremely well written with different characters highlighted in different sections. It’s a saga but not in the way of other “family sagas”. I recommend it and will miss it now it’s completed.

Great listen.

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A superbly engaging rollercoaster, huge but never dull. The narrator, with a subtle characterisation, captured the stories mood, and was never a distraction. I'm missing it already.

Great book, wonderful performance

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As with all good books, this is a story with a beginning, middle and end. As long as you keep up with the different strands, you will be rewarded with a feeling of satisfaction when you get to the end of the book. The writing is excellent and although the story moves from one period to another, it somehow manages to maintain coherence and interest. This, in my experience shows a story-telling talent that many writers lack.

It is a fairly long book so not one that you could listen to in one sitting (unless on a very long journey) but it certainly held my interest and I look forward to what Nathan Hill will writes next.

The narration was very good considering the number of very different characters in the story.

I was particularly delighted that Nathan Hill does not seem to have chosen the route of "sequels" or "series" as this book is completely self-contained, as a book should be.

Loved it.

A story well worth listening to, told artfully

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I lived this meandering story, it was like books within a book. Great characters, really engagingly and wittily written.

Fantastic!!

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