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AUDIOBOOK

The Vanishers

Heidi Julavits
3.9
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Duration
8h 46m
Year
2012
Language
English
Publisher
Dreamscape Media

About

Julia is a student at an elite institute for psychics. Her mentor, the legendary Madame Ackermann, afflicted by jealousy, subjects Julia to the humiliation of reliving her mother's suicide when Julia was an infant. As the two lock horns, and Julia gains power, Madame Ackermann launches a psychic attack that leaves Julia the victim of a crippling ailment. Others have noted Julia's emerging gifts, and soon she's recruited to track down missing person who might have a connection to her mother.

Related Subjects

  • Psychological
  • Adult Fiction
  • Occult & Supernatural
  • Dreamscape

Reviews

"Xe Sands turns in a stellar performance in this audio edition of Julavits's latest, providing narration that is secretive and seductive...Sands offers up a host of spot-on voices and accents. The result is intriguing, whimsical, often funny, and thoroughl"
Publisher's Weekly
"Narrator Xe Sands connects viscerally with listeners...Her languid reading evokes the dreamlike quality of the prose and softens Julia's raw suffering...As Sands's slow, clear reading dramatizes the psychological effects of abandonment and exploitation, she grounds Julia's disturbing yet gripping journey."
AudioFile Magazine
"...darkly comic... sharp-eyed, sardonic, hilarious...Julia's narrative voice is superb. Funny, self-deprecating, exquisitely attuned...remarkable."
New York Times

Artists

Heidi JulavitsAuthor
Xe SandsReader

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