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The Swells
- Author
- Will Aitken
- Narrator
- Eva Kaminsky
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 4 January 2022
- Run Time
- 5 hours 47 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In this darkly hilarious satire by the inimitable Will Aitken, class war erupts aboard a luxury cruise ship.
A boatload of white privilege, the Emerald Tranquility is the most luxurious cruise liner afloat, its passengers some of the richest people in the world. Meanwhile the ship’s crew, overworked and underpaid, live packed tightly together in airless below-deck cabins.
Briony, globetrotting luxury travel writer, emulates the rich—though homeless and penniless herself—as she hops from gig to all-expenses-paid gig.
The passengers encounter a great number of cataclysms at sea, but no matter the catastrophe, the great ship always sails on.
On her own personal voyage, Briony encounters Mrs. Moore, an enigmatic old woman clandestinely fomenting a mutiny on this bountiful ship. With the captain overthrown, roles quickly reverse: the crew become the ship’s new leisure class and the aged passengers learn how to mop floors and scrub toilets.
Briony, confused and terrified by the resultant chaos, must decide which lot to cast her fate with, in this savage satire of the way we live now.
Critics Review
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“A brilliantly acerbic upstairs-downstairs satire of class and privilege on the high seas.”
Jordan Tannahill, author of Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist The Listeners
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“A stinging, darkly veiled satire that left me laughing and thinking long after I turned the last page.”
Terry Fallis, author of Albatross: A Novel
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“Strap on your Mae West: this voyage is an archly, artfully, uproariously breezy yet incisive dark delight.”
Gary Barwin, author of Yiddish for Pirates
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“An engaging narration by Eva Kaminsky.”
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Details
- Author
- Will Aitken
- Narrator
- Eva Kaminsky
- Duration
- 5 hours 47 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 January 2022
- ISBN
- 9798200831913
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Satirical fiction and parodies, Humorous fiction
Synopsis
In this darkly hilarious satire by the inimitable Will Aitken, class war erupts aboard a luxury cruise ship.A boatload of white privilege, the Emerald Tranquility is the most luxurious cruise liner afloat, its passengers some of the richest people in the world. Meanwhile the ship’s crew, overworked and underpaid, live packed tightly together in airless below-deck cabins.Briony, globetrotting luxury travel writer, emulates the rich—though homeless and penniless herself—as she hops from gig to all-expenses-paid gig.The passengers encounter a great number of cataclysms at sea, but no matter the catastrophe, the great ship always sails on.On her own personal voyage, Briony encounters Mrs. Moore, an enigmatic old woman clandestinely fomenting a mutiny on this bountiful ship. With the captain overthrown, roles quickly reverse: the crew become the ship’s new leisure class and the aged passengers learn how to mop floors and scrub toilets.Briony, confused and terrified by the resultant chaos, must decide which lot to cast her fate with, in this savage satire of the way we live now.
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