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The Appointment audiobook

  • By: Katharina Volckmer
  • Narrator: Katharina Volckmer
  • Category: Fiction, Literary
  • Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2020
  • Language: English
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The Appointment Audiobook Summary

“A darkly funny untangling of national and sexual identity.” —The Guardian * “Transgressive…Incendiary.” —The New Yorker * “A furious comic monologue…with a disregard for propriety worthy of Alexander Portnoy.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Sexy, hilarious, and subversive.” The Paris Review

For readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Han Kang, a whip-smart debut novel in which a woman on the verge of major change addresses her doctor in a stream of consciousness narrative.

In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligman. Though she can barely see above his head, she holds forth about her life and desires, her struggles with her sexuality and identity. Born and raised in Germany, she has been living in London for several years, determined to break free from her family origins and her haunted homeland. But the recent death of her grandfather, and an unexpected inheritance, make it clear that you cannot easily outrun your own shame, whether it be physical, familial, historical, national, or all of the above.

Or can you? With Dr. Seligman’s help, our narrator will find out.

In a monologue that is both deliciously dark and subversively funny, she takes us on a wide-ranging journey from Hitler-centered sexual fantasies and overbearing mothers to the medicinal properties of squirrel tails and the notion that anatomical changes can serve as historical reparation. The Appointment is an audacious debut novel by an explosive new international literary voice, challenging all of our notions of what is fluid and what is fixed, and the myriad ways we seek to make peace with others and ourselves in the 21st century.

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The Appointment Audiobook Narrator

Katharina Volckmer is the narrator of The Appointment audiobook that was written by Katharina Volckmer

Katharina Volckmer was born in Germany in 1987. She now lives in London where she works for a literary agency. The Appointment is her first novel.

About the Author(s) of The Appointment

Katharina Volckmer is the author of The Appointment

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The Appointment Full Details

Narrator Katharina Volckmer
Length 2 hours 53 minutes
Author Katharina Volckmer
Category
Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio
Release date April 27, 2024
ISBN 9781797115658

Subjects

The publisher of the The Appointment is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary

Additional info

The publisher of the The Appointment is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781797115658.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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