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A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN

Earphones Award Winner

by | Read by Jim Norton

Classics • 8.25 hrs. • Unabridged • © 2005

This masterpiece presents a provocative challenge to the audiobook producer and narrator. As the title suggests, it portrays an Irish poet, Stephen Dedalus, as a youth at the turn of the last century. It progresses from his earliest memories to the present. Its narrative matures as the character, the author in disguise, matures. Just how does one present that orally? Multiple narrators of various ages? One narrator altering his voice as the subject grows up? Naxos has cast a single voice, Jim Norton, who delivers the entire narrative in a single tone of gentle, god-like detachment. In dialogue passages, the characters roar to life in all their stormy Celtic vigor. Thus, Norton takes us inside the soul of the sensitive protagonist while amplifying the color and beauty of Joyce’s writing. Y.R. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine [Published: OCT/ NOV 06]

Trade Ed. • Naxos AudioBooks • 2006

CD ISBN 978-9-62634-366-1 $47.98 • Seven CDs

DD ISBN $33.59

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