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The Astral

Kate Christensen
3.6
(10)
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Duration
9h 44m
Year
2011
Language
English
Publisher
Dreamscape Media

About

The Astral is a huge rose-colored old pile of an apartment building in the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. For decades it was the happy home (or so he thought) of poet Harry Quirk and his wife, Luz, a nurse, and of their two children. But Luz has found (and destroyed) some poems of Harry's that ignite her suspicions of infidelity. He now has to reckon with the consequences of his literary, marital, financial, and parental failures.

Related Subjects

  • Literary
  • Adult Fiction
  • Urban & Street Lit
  • General
  • Family Life
  • Dreamscape

Reviews

"On the best of 2011 list. A satisfying redoing of a man undone."
Booklist
"Starred Review. ...unremittingly wonderful...Christensen takes a singular, genuine story and blows it up into a smart inquiry into the nature of love and the commitments we make..."
Publishers Weekly
"Christensen succeeds impressively in inhabiting Harry's point of view. Donald Corran brings Christensen's large cast of characters, of which Brooklyn itself is one, to vivid, eccentric life."
AudioFile Magazine

Artists

Kate ChristensenAuthor
Donald CorrenReader