The Nix
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The Nix
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Narrated by:
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Ari Fliakos
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By:
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Nathan Hill
About this listen
Nathan Hill's brilliant debut, The Nix, journeys from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street; from Chicago in 1968, to wartime Norway: home of the mysterious Nix.
Meet Samuel: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. He hasn't seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically motivated crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, and inflames a divided America. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she's facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel's help.
As Samuel begins to excavate his mother's, and his country's, history, he will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink everything he ever knew about her - a woman with an epic story of her own, a story she has kept hidden from the world.
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Critic reviews
"The best new writer of fiction in America. The best." (John Irving)
Wow!
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A complicated human story
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very enjoyable
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a good listen
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The author showed real compassion for each of his characters (well, almost all of them) and that shone through.
a great book almost inspite of itself
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The story is a slow burn - each character is developed within its own part in the story and the book jumps back and forward in time. As it builds the various pieces start to come together with the central figure of Samuel at the heart.
In a way the story is less than the sum of its parts but that’s not really a criticism. The story and the characters who occupy it are unusual but perfect in their authenticity of the various time-frames. You feel you could meet characters like these. And I loved the wry take on 21st century culture.
The book is brilliantly written and the dialogue is sharp, witty and believable with the whole experience of listening brought to life with superb performance - one of the best I’ve heard on an audiobook.
Brilliantly written and superb performance
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Brilliant
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I really enjoyed it, a cracking book that rolls along apace and never loses its way.
Holy Moly!
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Where does The Nix rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
top 3What was one of the most memorable moments of The Nix?
two manyWhat about Ari Fliakos’s performance did you like?
moved between characters with easeIf you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
i'm not bright enough to think of one.There is so much,the story is so big.Any additional comments?
some writers just leave me in awe at their intelligence and their imagination.Wonderful story, absolutely thrilling, funny, sad, twists and turns, Just great.I liked it as much as I liked 'the Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.awesome
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Great listen.
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