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The Nix
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 21 hrs and 41 mins
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Summary
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.
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"The best new writer of fiction in America. The best." (John Irving)
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- 01-02-18
awesome
Where does The Nix rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
top 3
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Nix?
two many
What about Ari Fliakos’s performance did you like?
moved between characters with ease
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
i'm not bright enough to think of one.There is so much,the story is so big.
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some writers just leave me in awe at their intelligence and their imagination.Wonderful story, absolutely thrilling, funny, sad, twists and turns, Just great.I liked it as much as I liked 'the Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
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- Em Bennett
- 10-02-24
Great listen.
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.
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- Longshanks
- 23-09-17
Fabulous read!
An honest look at our daily deceptions of self avoidance of how we truly feel! Inspired writing and a journey worth traveling. We all have a story to tell and the opportunity to choose between inner truth and falsehood. Great characters and insight into mind traps. The little things are so important. Uplifting finish.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-10-18
Very Good - great detail
This has been in my library for ages ! I like end of world, Zombies so when I purchased this, it as always stayed towards bottom of the pile, however I needed a break from my norm and listened. I really enjoyed it, good story, thought provoking and well written, I like detail, longer the better and this did not disappoint.
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- S. Powell
- 15-06-21
Wow!
The narration of this book is exceptional & really enhances an already excellent story. Great stuff
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- N. Howard
- 29-09-17
A complicated human story
This is a story of intertwined human lives, mistakes that go back generations, regrets, new chances and finding meaning. True and honest, with a lightening touch of humour.
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- Jason
- 15-12-17
very enjoyable
great writing and narration... very good switching between years and different elements of the story
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- N. Arkney
- 28-04-19
a good listen
Interesting story, a bit slow at times. Great narration. Ultimately it was just an easy listen.
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- PaulStanley
- 04-07-19
a great book almost inspite of itself
hard going at times but worth the effort. at heart a very human story.
The author showed real compassion for each of his characters (well, almost all of them) and that shone through.
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- amazing customer
- 06-06-20
Brilliantly written and superb performance
When I first started listening to this I wasn’t sure I’d made a good choice. The book is very detailed, which turns out to be one of its pleasures, but at the beginning I found it difficult to get into the narrative because a lot of time Is dedicated to each character and situation before the story starts to develop. Stick with it!
The story is a slow burn - each character is developed within its own part in the story and the book jumps back and forward in time. As it builds the various pieces start to come together with the central figure of Samuel at the heart.
In a way the story is less than the sum of its parts but that’s not really a criticism. The story and the characters who occupy it are unusual but perfect in their authenticity of the various time-frames. You feel you could meet characters like these. And I loved the wry take on 21st century culture.
The book is brilliantly written and the dialogue is sharp, witty and believable with the whole experience of listening brought to life with superb performance - one of the best I’ve heard on an audiobook.
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