94 Results for : tragicomedy
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Life in a Fishbowl , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 520min
Fifteen-year-old Jackie Stone's father is dying. When Jackie discovers that her father has been diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, her whole world starts to crumble. She can't imagine how she'll live without him. Then, in a desperate act to secure his family's future, Jackie's father does the unthinkable - he puts his life up for auction on eBay. Jackie can do nothing but watch and wait as an odd assortment of bidders, some with nefarious intentions, drive the price up higher. The fate of her entire family hangs in the balance. But no one can predict how the auction will finally end or any of the very public fallout that ensues. Life as Jackie knows it is about to change forever.... In this brilliantly written tragicomedy told through multiple points of view - including Jackie's dad's tumor - acclaimed author Len Vlahos deftly explores what it really means to live. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bailey Carr. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027932/bk_adbl_027932_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Let the Games Begin , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 580min
It's the night of the most decadent party of the century. A rags-to-riches real estate magnate has planned an over-the-top weekend safari for the who’s-who of celebrities at his sprawling residence in Villa Ada - once a public park, now the largest private home in Rome. Starlets, politicians, soccer stars, and intellectuals all turn up to rub elbows. Among them is a neurotically charming author struggling to write his next literary tome and pining for renewed recognition. In an unexpected turn of events, he crosses paths with The Wilde Beasts of Abaddon, a satanic sect planning to ruin the evening’s festivities in order to go down in history as a world-famous cult. What was intended as the most spectacular fête of the year quickly descends into apocalyptic chaos. In this satirical tragicomedy, Niccolò Ammaniti, winner of the prestigious Strega Prize, reveals a side of modern culture riddled with superficiality and vulgarity that nourishes our deepest dreams and insecurities. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rupert Degas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/002029/bk_boli_002029_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Good Kids: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 480min
The critically acclaimed author of American Nerd makes his fiction debut with this romantic tragicomedy about a teenage boy and girl who discover his dad is having an affair with her mom. At 15, Josh Paquette and Khadijah Silverglate-Dunn catch Josh’s father and Khadijah’s mother kissing in a natural foods store. They make a pact never to cheat on anyone, ever. They have no problem keeping the vow—until they meet again at 28, both struggling with career and identity, and both engaged to other people. Part inter-ethnic romance, part intergenerational conflict, Good Kids is a hilarious, sad, handsomely plotted story of love and class in the era of the redefined household. Stylistically adventurous but always accessible, Nugent trains a keen ear on the vernaculars of Generation Y and the baby boomers, as young and middle-aged alike try to decide what parenting, background, and loyalty mean in late 20th and early 21st-century America. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlie Thurston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbca/001232/bk_bbca_001232_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Goldblatt's Descent , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1047min
Dr Malcolm Goldblatt has one last chance in the NHS. As the new but temporary senior registrar of a London hospital, he needs to prove to himself, and the medical establishment, that he can toe the corporate line. But this new hospital is all rather depressingly familiar - from Dr Madic's ferocious aversion to work, Dr Burton's knife-in-the-back ambition, right up to the pathologically insecure yet monstrously vain Professor Small, it is an environment of short tempers, back-biting and office politics - a place in which caring for patients seems secondary to caring for professional reputations. As Goldblatt attempts to hold on to his job in the medical chaos of Floor Five he finds himself sinking dangerously towards a point of no return, where it feels as though self-abnegation is killing him and self-destruction seems like the only remedy.... A biting, brilliant, black tragicomedy of doctors, patients, lost hopes and last chances. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Telfer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/007089/bk_bbcw_007089_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dear Digby: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 447min
An oddball newspaper editor advises eccentric readers - and reckons with her own painful past Willis Digby is the letters editor at Sis(Sisterhood) magazine, a job that drives her mad. Plowing through correspondence that fluctuates from the predictable boosterish boilerplate to letters challenging conventional notions of sanity, Willis struggles to find a balance in her selections for publication in the landmark feminist journal. Memorable letters include those from a woman who sprinkles cat food into her husband’s breakfast cereal each morning, one from a woman convinced that the man on the label of her cleaning products is harassing her, and endless gender-specific descriptions of peculiar sexual proclivities. As Digby strikes up an unconventional friendship with one of her correspondents, she also confronts a harrowing childhood incident that has come back to haunt her. At once witty and powerful, Dear Digby is a tragicomedy that explores the shifting borders of the self, or selves, that define individual sanity and conventional thought, and redefine communication among lost souls. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hollis McCarthy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017597/bk_adbl_017597_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Lair , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 810min
Norman Manea, Romania's most famous contemporary author, twice has survived the grip of totalitarian regimes. No stranger to exile, he mines its complexities and disorientations in this extraordinarily compelling novel, The Lair. Exile in the motherland and away from it is the shared plight of his protagonists. Nowhere at home, they move through their lives in a continuous, ever-elusive quest for national and individual identity. Manea's characters seek a place and a voice in America, only to discover that the shackles of their native totalitarian and nationalist ideologies are impossible to break. Manea's themes and narrative approach are intricate: his style fluctuates in correspondence with the instability of his characters' lives, his story is encased within an elaborate network of allusions and paradoxes. Yet in the midst of the novel's overriding disorientation, the author establishes intersections and uncovers the universal. Through the predicaments of his perpetual outsiders, he offers a poignant assessment of the conflicts of the individual in the age of globalization. He writes with unmatched intensity and a unique sensitivity to the human tragicomedy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Kliban. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017062/bk_adbl_017062_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Uncle Vanya , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 118min
Uncle Vanya is Anton Chekhov's 1902 tragicomedy focusing on the romantic entanglements of the residents of a declining country estate. Vanya loves Helena, the unhappily married wife of aged professor Serebrakoff. Sonia loves Dr. Astroff, but he's more interested in Helena. Serebrakoff loves only himself and is idealized by Vanya's mother, who believes him to be a genius. All the characters waver between love and hate, between idleness and industry, between idealism and despair, in Chekhov's "Scenes from Country Life". Cast Alexander Serebrakoff, a retired professor: Ron Altman Helena, his wife: Elizabeth Klett Sonia, his daughter by a former marriage: Elizabeth Chambers Mme. Voitskaya, widow of a privy councillor, and mother of Serebrakoff's first wife: Linda Barrans Ivan (Vanya) Voitski, her son: Tovarisch Michael Astroff, a doctor: David Prickett Ilia (Waffles) Telegin, an impoverished landowner: Jeff Moon Marina, an old nurse: Maureen Boutilier A Workman/Ephim the Watchman: Denis Daly Narrator: Leanne Yau Audio edited by Elizabeth Klett ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ron Altman, Elizabeth Klett, Elizabeth Chambers, Linda Barrans, David Prickett, Jeff Moon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001699/bk_mike_001699_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot ab 5 € als Taschenbuch: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts. Englischer Text mit deutschen Worterklärungen. B2 (GER) Reclam Universal-Bibliothek Reclam Universal-Bibliothek. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Schule & Lernen,- Shop: hugendubel
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The Mantle , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 76min
The Mantle follows the life of a civil servant, Akaki Akakievitch who just loves his work! Born in St Petersburg, he is a copy writer, meaning he copies text from one place to another. In his spare time and after work hours, he also copies. When given more responsibility, he begs to return to...copying. One particular winter, he notices that, between home and office, he is cold, his mantle is threadbare, and he can no longer repair it himself. Our conflict begins here, as Akaki seeks a solution to his threadbare mantle. Nicolai Gogol is a wonderfully observant author and his characters are so rich that we feel we can understand their points of view. This tragicomedy is Russian society in the mid 1800s at its most delightful! Cast: Akaki Akakievitch - Ben Stevens; Mother - Linda Barrans; Petrovitch/ Tovarisch/Sentry - Jeff Moon; Superior official/Doctor - Russell Gold; Assistant/Shouting man/Friend - Andy Harrington; Landlady/Daughter - Lee Ann Howlett; District Superintendent - David Prickett; Man in street/Lower officials - Alan Weyman. Narrator - Susan Iannucci. Audio edited by Susan Iannucci. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Iannucci, Ben Stevens, Russell Gold, Andy Harrington, Lee Ann Howlett, David Prickett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001639/bk_mike_001639_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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DemocraZy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 305min
How did we end up here? Why is Donald Trump the president of the United States of America? I know why. I also know that the only way to defeat the absurd is with a giant laughter.DemocraZy is a highly anticipated novel, an all-American satire that will explain what has happened since 2016 and will make you think, smile, and show gratitude for the United States: momentarily the most exotic big top, the quirkiest three-ring circus on earth.Follow the unbelievable rise of Mickey Rooster, Republican barn developer and upper-class travesty of the year, the hilarious chicanery of the candidate, the one and only Democratic man-turned-female candidate on a path to finally breaking the glass ceiling, and the eye-opening ordeal of Theodore Freeman, a common American like you and me, caught in the crossfire of tragicomedy and reality. After November 8, 2016, nothing has been the same. You can keep on looking for improbable answers, or you can dance with us, citizens of Dream, in a surreal fandango that will tickle your worries and chase your fears away for good.Join our chorus - Make America laughable again! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nathan E. Bradshaw. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/225688/bk_acx0_225688_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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