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Truly Like Lightning
- A Novel
- Narrated by: David Duchovny
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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Summary
This audiobook includes exclusive music by Kyd Miller Duchovny, the author's son
From the New York Times-best-selling author David Duchovny, an epic adventure that asks how we make sense of right and wrong in a world of extremes
For the past 20 years, Bronson Powers, former Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormon, has been homesteading deep in the uninhabited desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and 10 children. Bronson and his wives, Yalulah, Mary, and Jackie, have been raising their family away from the corruption and evil of the modern world. Their insular existence - controversial, difficult, but Edenic - is upended when the ambitious young developer Maya Abbadessa stumbles upon their land. Hoping to make a profit, she crafts a wager with the family that sets in motion a deadly chain of events.
Maya, threatening to report the family to social services, convinces them to enter three of their children into a nearby public school. Bronson and his wives agree that if Maya can prove that the kids do better in town than in their desert oasis, they will sell her a chunk of their priceless plot of land. Suddenly confronted with all the complications of the 21st century that they tried to keep out of their lives, the Powerses must reckon with their lifestyle as they try to save it.
Truly Like Lightning, David Duchovny’s fourth novel, is a heartbreaking meditation on family, religion, sex, greed, human nature, and the vanishing environment of an ancient desert.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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- Nicola Gandy
- 07-10-21
Poor recording but great story.
The book itself is great, but the recording quality is awful. sounds like it's been recorded in a caravan. Such a shame.
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- Allan Williams
- 27-03-21
Loved it thank you dd
Loved it. Will read again. Looking forward to the TV show. Next book from you please. Loved all 4 so far. All do different.
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- Helen
- 29-07-21
In-depth Concise A World Without Adjectives
Did not read anything about this book before downloading it so actually I had no idea what the story was about. I’d seen David Duchovny mentioning’Truly Like Lightening’ with some of the music written for this audiobook production so thought I’d give it a go.
I am so glad I did!
One of the ways I judge how good an audiobook is for me personally by how much else I can do whilst listening to it being read, and still retain the plot enough to follow on with the characters.
Two things, David Duchovny is an outstanding actor in the first place so his books, all of them, are really easy to become immersed within, the characters are all layered not just as surface written so your imagination gets a chance to work in harmony with the storyline. That’s absolutely true here, I became immersed very quickly.
The second thing is the well researched storyline and personal connection really does show.
The whole thing feels very real from beginning to end.
Something different from a very talented writer, five stars from me.
I am thankful for the experience.
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- Ellie
- 12-02-21
a good read but...
I enjoyed listening however it's one of those books where there's too much going on that you dont have a lot of time and story to care about the characters as much as you would want to when immersing yourself in a book. its nicely written. audio is also very echoey and a bit inconsistent at points. overall not bad but didn't blow my socks off either
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- Michael
- 02-04-23
probably better in print
there's a sense of can't be arsed about the narration, at first it seems like this is the style but then on numerous occasions Duchovny loses his place and leaves the segment in rather than editing it out. you might think perhaps, that the recording is genuine, I wonder if he's just spent so much time on it he's just tired and wanted to get it out of the way and by all accounts there's not much money in it after commissions are paid. It is a product and one night expect a certain quality. the poor sound quality and narration makes the story hard to follow. I'll return the audible version and buy the book.
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- brian fitzpatrick
- 14-09-21
Audio Quality was terrible
The story and performance were excellent but the audio quality made this a tough listen and spoiled the audiobook for me.
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