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Avenue of Mysteries audiobook
- By: John Irving
- Narrator: Armando Duran
- Category: Fiction, Literary
- Length: 20 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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Avenue of Mysteries Audiobook Summary
John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.
In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego–a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico–has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what’s coming–specifically, her own future and her brother’s. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn’t know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about the past; without your telling her, she knows all the worst things that have happened to you.
Lupe doesn’t know the future as accurately. But consider what a terrible burden it is, if you believe you know the future–especially your own future, or, even worse, the future of someone you love. What might a thirteen-year-old girl be driven to do, if she thought she could change the future?
As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. As we grow older–most of all, in what we remember and what we dream–we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present.
Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past–in Mexico–collides with his future.
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Avenue of Mysteries Audiobook Narrator
Armando Duran is the narrator of Avenue of Mysteries audiobook that was written by John Irving
John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 1980, Mr. Irving won a National Book Award for his novel The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. Internationally renowned, his novels have been translated into almost forty languages. His all-time bestselling novel, in every language, is A Prayer for Owen Meany. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, John Irving lives in Toronto.
About the Author(s) of Avenue of Mysteries
John Irving is the author of Avenue of Mysteries
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Avenue of Mysteries Full Details
| Narrator | Armando Duran |
| Length | 20 hours 50 minutes |
| Author | John Irving |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| Release date | April 25, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781442384507 |
Additional info
The publisher of the Avenue of Mysteries is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781442384507.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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