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Elegy for April audiobook
- By: Benjamin Black
- Narrator: Timothy Dalton
- Category: Fiction, Historical, Mystery & Detective
- Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: April 13, 2010
- Language: English
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Elegy for April Audiobook Summary
Quirke–the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist–is back, and he’s determined to find his daughter’s best friend, a well-connected young doctor
April Latimer has vanished. A junior doctor at a local hospital, she is something of a scandal in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin. Though her family is one of the most respected in the city, she is known for being independent-minded; her taste in men, for instance, is decidedly unconventional.
Now April has disappeared, and her friend Phoebe Griffin suspects the worst. Frantic, Phoebe seeks out Quirke, her brilliant but erratic father, and asks him for help. Sober again after intensive treatment for alcoholism, Quirke enlists his old sparring partner, Detective Inspector Hackett, in the search for the missing young woman. In their separate ways the two men follow April’s trail through some of the darker byways of the city to uncover crucial information on her whereabouts. And as Quirke becomes deeply involved in April’s murky story, he encounters complicated and ugly truths about family savagery, Catholic ruthlessness, and race hatred.
Both an absorbing crime novel and a brilliant portrait of the difficult and relentless love between a father and his daughter, this is Benjamin Black at his sparkling best.
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Elegy for April Audiobook Narrator
Timothy Dalton is the narrator of Elegy for April audiobook that was written by Benjamin Black
Timothy Dalton is perhaps best known for his critically-acclaimed incarnation of James Bond in The Living Daylights and License to Kill. Dalton is a longtime reader of thrillers written by Booker Prize winner John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black, including Christine Falls, which garnered an AudioFile Earphones Award. AudioFile magazine described Dalton’s reading of The Silver Swan, also written by Benjamin Black, as “so good it will make listeners giddy with delight… As the heavy-drinking Irish pathologist Quirke, Dalton offers a pitch-perfect Irish brogue. It’s all thrilling, honest, and raw.”
A classically trained Shakespearean actor, Dalton has appeared in films including The Tourist and in television miniseries including Scarlett (in which he played Rhett Butler), Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, and in countless Shakespearean films and plays. He is also the voice of Mr. Pricklepants, a character in the animated film Toy Story 3.
About the Author(s) of Elegy for April
Benjamin Black is the author of Elegy for April
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Elegy for April Full Details
| Narrator | Timothy Dalton |
| Length | 8 hours 29 minutes |
| Author | Benjamin Black |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | April 13, 2010 |
| ISBN | 9781427209467 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Elegy for April is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Historical, Mystery & Detective
Additional info
The publisher of the Elegy for April is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781427209467.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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