Duplex
A Novel

Name: Duplex
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Kathryn Davis
ISBN: 9781094004747

Author: Kathryn Davis

Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers

Unabridged: 6 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 08/13/2019

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Coming Of Age

Synopsis

Mary and Eddie are meant for each other―but love is no guarantee, not in these suburbs. Like all children, they exist in an eternal present; time is imminent, and the adults of the street live in their assorted houses like numbers on a clock. Meanwhile, ominous rumors circulate, and the increasing agitation of the neighbors points to a future in which all will be lost. Soon a sorcerer’s car will speed down Mary’s street, and as past and future fold into each other, the resonant parenthesis of her girlhood will close forever. Beyond is adulthood, a world of robots and sorcerers, slaves and masters, bodies without souls. In Duplex, Kathryn Davis, whom the Chicago Tribune has called “one of the most inventive novelists at work today,” has created a coming-of-age story like no other. Once you enter the duplex―that magical hinge between past and future, human and robot, space and time―there’s no telling where you might come out.

About Kathryn Davis

Kathryn Davis has received a Kafka Prize for fiction by an American woman, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches in the graduate program at Washington University in St. Louis. The Thin Place is her sixth novel.

About Elisabeth Rodgers

What do you do with a BA in English from Princeton University? You go to New York to pursue an acting career, and end up putting all of your skills together as an audiobook narrator. Elisabeth Rodgers first started recording audiobooks for the National Library Service of the Library of Congress at the American Foundation for the Blind (Talking Book Productions) in New York City. After she had numerous titles under her belt, she branched out, and has since narrated over 100 titles for a variety of publishers. She was the recipient of an Audie Award for the full-cast recording of Sherlock's Secret Life in 2000. Her work on The Last Chinese Chef, Annexed, The Naked Eye, and Mapping the Heavens garnered AudioFile magazine's prized Earphones Awards, and she was lucky enough to join the star-studded cast of Audible, Inc.'s Audie-nominated production of The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, as well as the Earphones-winning MetaBook audio-drama production of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Elisabeth continues to work both onstage and in the studio. She lives in the Lower East Side of New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on April 08, 2020

this book is very disorienting. and i liked it, i think, but it is the kind of book you need to read at least twice. in this book, davis is very fond of manipulating the reader, making sure there is never a point where you feel entirely comfortable reading it, confident that you know what is going o......more

Goodreads review by Lark on March 09, 2022

What a delight. The story zings along and you can either try to puzzle it out as you go or let it lead you where it will. Kathryn Davis has created a unique world in this novel and I was all in. It's the kind of story where the beginning of the sentence means something different by the time you get......more

Goodreads review by Ally on November 26, 2013

I don't even know what to say. Reading the other reviews here, it seems like people are either in the "loved it" camp or the "hated it" camp and I'm squarely in the......"I don't even know what to say" camp. First off the writing is amazing - at once detached and cool and then intense and heartbreak......more

Goodreads review by Gerhard on December 28, 2014

This is hands-down the weirdest, and curiously one of the most affecting, books I have had the privilege to read in 2014. Impressive and incendiary. Overall the structure and tone reminded me of The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury: a series of loosely connected and intertwined stories/tales/visio......more

Goodreads review by Susan on July 22, 2013

A big " wow" for Kathryn Davis' new book. I was lucky enough to get my hands on a galley and as soon as I picked it up, I read straight through to the end and then began all over again. In less than 200 pages, Davis has managed to create a world that feels almost familiar, but utterly strange and ev......more

Quotes

“An intricately fashioned, wryly stylized, through-the-looking-glass novel of forewarning about the essence of being human, endangered souls and “ancestral memory,” and how stories keep us afloat.” Booklist (starred review)