• The Melody

  • By: Jim Crace
  • Narrated by: Tim Bentinck
  • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
  • Unabridged Audiobook
  • Release date: 02-08-18
  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio
  • 5 out of 5 stars 5.0 (1 rating)

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Publisher's Summary

Alfred Busi, famed and beloved in his town for his music and songs, is now in his sixties, mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days alone in the large villa he has always called home. The night before he is due to attend a ceremony at the town's avenue of fame, Busi is attacked by a creature he disturbs as it raids the contents of his larder. Busi is convinced that what assaulted him was no animal, but a child, 'innocent and wild', and his words fan the flames of old rumour - of an ancient race of people living in the woods surrounding the town - and new controversy: the town's paupers, the feral wastrels at its edges, must be dealt with. Once and for all.
As Busi's nephew's ambitious plans for himself and the town develop, he is able to fan the flames of rumour and soon Busi and the town he loves will be altered irrevocably.
The Melody by Jim Crace is a story about grief and ageing, about reputation and the loss of it, about love and music and the peculiar way myth seeps into real life.
©2017 Jim Crace (P)2017 Macmillan Digital Audio
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2 out of 5 stars
By Corsaire on 04-17-18

Very very dull

I love the work of Jim Crace and listened carefully to this book - beautifully read - for SEVEN HOURS before finally giving up on it. In that time, beyond two glimpses of a feral child, absolutely nothing of interest has happened. The same scenes of life in the main character's house are sketched again and again. I expected subtlety and wasnt looking for a thriller but after seven hours I abandoned any hope that the last seventy minutes would make it worthwhile. Sadly disappointing.

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3 out of 5 stars
By Anonymous User on 03-28-18

it's no harvest

sentimental. flashes of the best of Crace, but mostly not the magic I expect from this author

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