Lisa Halliday has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3.5★ across 60 ratings. The most-rated is Asymmetry.
Asymmetry
Summary
A singularly inventive and unforgettable debut novel about love, luck, and the inextricability of life and art, from 2017 Whiting Award winner Lisa Halliday. Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, "Folly", tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place in New York during the early years of the Iraq War, "Folly" also suggests an aspiring novelist's coming-of-age. By contrast, "Madness" is narrated by Amar, an Iraqi-American man who, on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan, is detained by immigration officers and spends the last weekend of 2008 in a holding room in Heathrow. These two seemingly disparate stories gain resonance as their perspectives interact and overlap, with yet new implications for their relationship revealed in an unexpected coda. A stunning debut from a rising literary star, Asymmetry is an urgent, important, and truly original work that will captivate any listener while also posing arresting questions about the very nature of fiction itself.
©2018 Lisa Halliday (P)2018 Simon & Schuster
Louie l'Infallibile
Summary
"Chiedi una canzone, New York! E se Louie non è capace di suonarla, chiudiamo la baracca e ce ne torniamo a casa! Hai trenta minuti per tirare su il telefono e chiamare Louie l'Infallibile!": questa la sfida che tiene l'America dell'età del jazz avvinta al celebre programma radiofonico "Louie l'Infallibile". Ma cosa c'è nel cuore della sua stella, Louie Palmer, un giovane pianista italoamericano in grado di suonare a memoria qualsiasi canzone gli venga richiesta? Il suo talento è davvero invincibile?
©2012 Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore S.r.l. Tradotto da Sergio Altieri (P)2019 Audible Studios