

Headlong
Author: Michael Frayn
Narrator: Steven Crossley
Unabridged: 12 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 08/26/2011
Categories: Fiction
Author: Michael Frayn
Narrator: Steven Crossley
Unabridged: 12 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 08/26/2011
Categories: Fiction
Michael Frayn is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling Headlong, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection and a Booker Prize finalist, and Spies, which received the Whitbread Novel Award. He has also written a memoir, My Father's Fortune, and fifteen plays, among them Noises Off and Copenhagen, which won three Tony Awards. He lives just south of London.
This book was a very different, and somewhat overwhelming, reading experience. Taking into account Michael Frayn's expertise as an excellent playwright, this book is not short in proving his prowess in dialogue development. In it, we are introduced to Martin, who narrates his moral and ethical strugg......more
I like boffin comeuppance humor – the kind where some bloviating egghead from the remotest groves of academe finds that his cluelessness about real life can come back to bite him. Martin, a second-rate professor of philosophy and a first-rate pedant, is the storyteller in this one. As you already kn......more
Huge entertaining and informative, Michael Frayn's book about an art historian turned frantic detective is a delight from start to finish. I simply coudn't put it down and when it ended, I went straight to my local library to get out books about the Netherlands and old Dutch masters! The book will no......more
What a frustrating book... It *should* have been a very interesting book, good premise and good writer (from other books I've read of his prior to this one) but somehow between way too much academic research and one-dimensional characters it fell off the rails. I really, really wanted to like it, bu......more