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Spirit of Progress Audiobook (Unabridged)

By: Steven Carroll
Spirit of Progress (Unabridged) Audiobook, by Steven Carroll Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Humphrey Bower Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.50 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: February 2012 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN:
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The thing that makes you, it never goes. As relevant to memories as it is to the future. Michael, on his journey, discovers, The Spirit of Progress.

A sleek high-speed train glides silently through the French countryside, bearing Michael, an Australian writer, and his travelling world of memory and speculation. Melbourne, 1946, calls to him: the pressure cooker of the city during World War II has produced a small creative miracle, and at this pivotal moment the lives of his newly married parents, a group of restless artists, a proud old woman with a tent for a home, a journalist, a gallery owner, a farmer and a factory developer irrevocably intersect. And all the while the Spirit of Progress, the locomotive of the new age, roars through their lives like time's arrow, pointing to the future and the post-war world only some of them will enter.

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  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

    " Lovely tone, and as a Melburnian I enjoyed being transported back to the last days of WWII Melbourne (and figuring out who the 'fictitious' characters were). But pleasant, I guess, rather than anything more. Pleasant is nice though, right? "

    — Jane, 10/11/2013
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    " very good. gentle. excellent prose. needed more Melbourne "flavor"... "

    — Joel, 10/27/2012
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    " An okay read about the characters who meet at a moment in time in 1946 in outer Melbourne. The narrative style is a little unusual and distant. The character development is a little thin and the plot is nearly a non event! Still, the mood of the story makes this book a pleasant read. "

    — George, 4/18/2012

About Steven Carroll

Steven Carroll was born in Melbourne. His first novel, Remember Me, Jimmy James, was published in 1992. The Art of the Engine Driver and The Gift of Speed were short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award, which the final book in the trilogy, The Time We Have Taken, won in 2008. Steven Carroll lives in Melbourne with his partner and son.

About Humphrey Bower

Humphrey Bower, winner of multiple Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for best narration, is a writer, actor, and director. He earned his BA in English literature from Oxford University and has worked extensively in theater, and television. He was a founding member of the Melbourne collective Whistling in the Theatre and the Perth independent company Last Seen Imagining. He is the artistic director of Night Train Productions.