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    All is Song
    All is Song
    All is Song
    Audiobook10 hours

    All is Song

    Written by Samantha Harvey

    Narrated by Gordon Griffin

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A fiercely intelligent and moving second novel from the author of the acclaimed The Wilderness

    Leonard Deppling returns to the capital from Scotland, where he has spent the past year nursing his dying father. Missing from the funeral was his younger brother William, a former lecturer and activist who lives with his wife and two young sons. Leonard is alone and rootless, he moves in with William hoping to unite their family and renew their friendship.

    But it seems William has already set his own fate in motion, news comes of a young student who has followed one of his arguments to a shocking conclusion. William embraces the danger - a decision that threatens to consume his entire family.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateApr 1, 2012
    ISBN9781407499468
    All is Song
    Author

    Samantha Harvey

    Samantha Harvey has published two novels, The Wilderness and All Is Song. She has been short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Guardian First Book Award, and long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. She has also won the AMI Literature Award and the Betty Trask Prize. One of The Culture Show's 12 Best New British Novelists, she has contributed to Granta (print and online), has held a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony, and is a member of the Academy for the Folio Prize. She lives in Bath, England, and teaches creative writing in the master's program at Bath Spa University.

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    • 1/5
      Review of the book up to page 96 (where I finished reading).
      I found this book a little puzzling. The two main characters are brothers who have been brought together following the death of their father. The interaction between the two characters was not brother-like at all, it was more like following the lives of two old colleagues. There was no emotion in anything they did or said. There were lots of pages of dialogue that had nothing to do with anything, and lots of philosophical discussion, and these things pretty much killed the storyline. Very little happened in those 96 pages. It was hard work to get that far with it, and a lot of it was skimmed. I wouldn't recommend this book.

      The cover is nice, though.
    • 2/5
      Completed it, but only just. Listened to audiobook as I walked and ran at night, and probably would have given up if I had to work through a hard copy version. Too heavy and tedious and unemotional.
    • 5/5
      This is a book about philosophy. It is structured as a struggle between two brothers. It is told from one of the brother's point of view. Leonard, the brother in question, attempts to understand his brother William, a modern day Socrates. William is very believable as a Socratic construct. The understanding underpinning the story feels genuine from a philosophical perspective. The book is something of a gentle gadfly, worth reading for anyone interested in truth.