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A Dog's Life Audiobook

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Read By: Jonathan Keeble Publisher: MacLehose Press Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: April 2016 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781681442532

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

31

Longest Chapter Length:

42:01 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

07 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

11:05 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

Eustace is the undisputed patriarch of the Farquhar family--that is, he would be if everyone left him alone so he could get on with things, like shaving, and finding his way downstairs.

It's not Henry's fault that he snores and that his marriage has collapsed. Or that he failed to get into the cricket team. But he has made up for it and is now a faster motorist than ever he was a bowler. He is a good father too, and one day, when he wakes up from day-dreaming, his son Kenneth will thank him.

It is good that Anne sleeps with a whistle in her mouth--how else could she terrify the burglars? As for Mathilda, she wold love to like her mother, but prefers going for long walks with the dog. But what will happen to them all if the dog dies?

The story is followed by a devastating postscript. Placing this eccentric family in isolation after two world wars and at the beginning of our aggressive financial culture, it turns comedy into tragedy. A Dog's Life marked a very personal addition to Michael Holroyd's remarkable career.

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“A writer who can do with English what his forbears so signally could not do with money; keep its value up.”

— London Evening Standard

Quotes

  • “Michael Holroyd has a great novelist’s sense of the obstinate mystery of the human person.”

    — George Steiner, critic, essayist, philosopher
  • One of the great biographers of our age.

    — Lynn Barber, Daily Telegraph
  • A writer who can do with English what his forbears so signally could not do with money; keep its value up

    — Candia McWilliam, London Evening Standard
  • Michael Holroyd has a great novelist's sense of the obstinate mystery of the human person.

    — George Steiner

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About Michael Holroyd

Michael Holroyd was born in 1935. He was at school at Eton and completed his education in public libraries. His biographies of Lytton Strachey, Augustus John, Bernard Shaw, and Ellen Terry established him as one of the most influential biographers of modern times. He was awarded a C. B. E. in 1989 and knighted in 2007, and is President Emeritus of the Royal Society of Literature.

About Jonathan Keeble

Jonathan Keeble, winner of four AudioFile Earphones Awards, combines his audio work with a busy theater and television career. He has been featured in over six hundred radio plays for the BBC, appearing in everything from Shakespeare and Sherlock Holmes to Doctor Who and The Archers, in which he played the evil Owen. As an Earphones Award–winning narrator, he is in high demand for his voice work. He has recorded over two hundred audiobooks.