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Turtle Diary
- Author
- Russell Hoban
- Narrator
- Harry Myers, Lucy Paterson
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 29 April 2021
- Run Time
- 5 hours 48 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Born to swim thousands of miles in the ocean, the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of golden-green water at London Zoo. But not for much longer. Two lonely people, a bookseller and a children's illustrator, have begun thinking turtle thoughts. As they come together to hatch a plan to release the turtles into the sea, their diaries reveal how they find their own lives changing in imperceptible and quite unintended ways.
'Wonderful, life-saving ... places Russell Hoban among the greatest, timeless novelists' The Times
'Crackles with witty detail, mordant intelligence and self-deprecating irony' Time
'This lovely human fable seems to me one of the best things of its kind - a fine and touching achievement' John Fowles
© Russell Hoban 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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Russell Hoban is our Ur-novelist, a maverick voice that is like no other.
Sunday Telegraph
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Worth rejoicing in ... a banquet of whimsical delights. Each Russell Hoban book is surprising ... but you also know what you're getting, which is curiosity, wonder and a world-encompassing empathy.
The Guardian
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This wonderful, life-saving fantasy places Russell Hoban where he has got to be - among the greatest, timeless novelists.
The Times
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Crackles with witty detail, mordant intelligence and self-deprecating irony.
Time
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[Turtle Diary] has medicinal qualities. I only need to think about it and I'm in a better mood.
Max Porter
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A story about the recovery of life ... Like other cult writers - Salinger for instance, or Vonnegut - Hoban writes about ordinary people making life-affirming gestures in a world that threatens to dissolve in madness.
Newsweek
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This lovely human fable seems to me one of the best things of its kind - a fine and touching achievement.
John Fowles
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Tragicomic pleasure ... Metaphysical speculation undercut by dry humour is the signature style of Russell Hoban.
The Times
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Details
- Author
- Russell Hoban
- Narrator
- Harry Myers, Lucy Paterson
- Duration
- 5 hours 48 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 April 2021
- ISBN
- 9780241525142
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. Born to swim thousands of miles in the ocean, the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of golden-green water at London Zoo. But not for much longer. Two lonely people, a bookseller and a children's illustrator, have begun thinking turtle thoughts. As they come together to hatch a plan to release the turtles into the sea, their diaries reveal how they find their own lives changing in imperceptible and quite unintended ways.'Wonderful, life-saving ... places Russell Hoban among the greatest, timeless novelists' The Times'Crackles with witty detail, mordant intelligence and self-deprecating irony' Time'This lovely human fable seems to me one of the best things of its kind - a fine and touching achievement' John Fowles© Russell Hoban 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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