Roger Rosenblatt has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Thomas Murphy.
Thomas Murphy
Summary
The acclaimed, award-winning essayist and memoirist returns to fiction with this reflective, bittersweet tale that introduces the irrepressible aging poet Thomas Murphy - a paean to the mystery, tragedy, and wonder of life. Trying his best to weasel out of an appointment with the neurologist his only child, Máire, has cornered him into, the poet Thomas Murphy - singer of the oldies, friend of the down-and-out, card sharp, raconteur, piano bar player, bon vivant, tough and honest and all-around good guy - contemplates his sunset years. Máire worries that Murph is losing his memory. Murph wonders what to do with the rest of his life. The older mind is at issue, and Murph's jumps from fact to memory to fancy, conjuring the islands that have shaped him - Irishmaan, a rocky gumdrop off the Irish coast where he was born, and New York, his longtime home. He muses on the living, his daughter and precocious grandson William, and on the dead, his dear wife Oona, and Greenberg, his best friend. Now, into Murphy's world comes the lovely Sarah, a blind woman less than half his age, who sees into his heart, as he sees into hers. Brought together under the most unlikely circumstance, Murph and Sarah begin in friendship and wind up in impossible possible love. An Irishman, a dreamer, a poet, Murph, like Whitman, sings lustily of himself and of everyone. Through his often extravagant behavior and observations, both hilarious and profound, we see the world in all its strange glory, equally beautiful and ridiculous. With memory at the center of his thoughts, he contemplates its power and accuracy and meaning. Our life begins in dreams, but does not stay with them, Murph reminds us. What use shall we make of the past? Ultimately, he asks, are relationships our noblest reason for living? Behold the charming, wistful, vibrant, aging Thomas Murphy, whose story celebrates the ageless confusion that is this dreadful, gorgeous life.
©2016 Roger Rosenblatt (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.
The Boy Detective
Summary
The Washington Post hailed Roger Rosenblatt's Making Toast as a textbook on what constitutes "perfect writing," and People lauded Kayak Morning as "intimate, expansive, and profoundly moving." Classic tales of love and grief, the New York Times best-selling memoirs are also original literary works that carve out new territory at the intersection of poetry and prose. Now comes The Boy Detective, a story of the author's childhood in New York City, suffused with the same mixture of acute observation and bracing humor, lyricism and wit. Resisting the deadening silence of his family home in the elegant yet stiflingly safe neighborhood of Gramercy Park, nine-year-old Roger imagines himself a private eye in pursuit of criminals. With the dreamlike mystery of the city before him, he sets off alone, out into the streets of Manhattan, thrilling to a life of unsolved cases. Six decades later, Rosenblatt finds himself again patrolling the territory of his youth: The writing class he teaches has just wrapped up, releasing him into the winter night and the very neighborhood in which he grew up. A grown man now, he investigates his own life and the life of the city as he walks, exploring the New York of the 1950s; the lives of the writers who walked these streets before him, such as Poe and Melville; the great detectives of fiction and the essence of detective work; and the monuments of his childhood, such as the New York Public Library, once the site of an immense reservoir that nourished the city with water before it nourished it with books, and the Empire State Building, which, in Rosenblatt's imagination, vibrates sympathetically with the oversize loneliness of King Kong: "If you must fall, fall from me." As he walks, he is returned to himself, the boy detective on the case. Just as Rosenblatt invented a world for himself as a child, he creates one on this night - the writer a detective still, the chief suspect in the case of his own life, a case that discloses the shared mysteries of all our lives. A masterly evocation of the city and a meditation on memory as an act of faith, The Boy Detective treads the line between a novel and a poem, displaying a world at once dangerous and beautiful.
©2013 Roger Rosenblatt (P)2013 HarperCollins Publishers
Making Toast
Summary
“A painfully beautiful memoir…. Written with such restraint as to be both heartbreaking and instructive.” (E. L. Doctorow) A revered, many times honored (George Polk, Peabody, and Emmy Award winner, to name but a few) journalist, novelist, and playwright, Roger Rosenblatt shares the unforgettable story of the tragedy that changed his life and his family. A book that grew out of his popular December 2008 essay in The New Yorker, Making Toast is a moving account of unexpected loss and recovery in the powerful tradition of About Alice and The Year of Magical Thinking. Writer Ann Beattie offers high praise to the acclaimed author of Lapham Rising and Beet for a memoir that is, “written so forthrightly, but so delicately, that you feel you’re a part of this family.”
©2019 Roger Rosenblatt (P)2019 HarperAudio
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Guia Irreverente para la Vida [Guide for Life] (Texto Completo)
Summary
Esta es la receta, sabia y con un toque do ironia, para vivir mucho mejor el resto de nuestra vida. Desde ya, es la del autor, y usted puede adoptarla o no. Si no lo hace, no nos diga que no le avisamos. Si, si, lo sabemos. Usted esta harto de las guias que ofrecen diez reglas infallibles para vivir como Dios manda, de las reglas que le ensenaron sus padres, sus tios, sus profesores e incluso su mejor amigo.Porque usted ya ha vivido lo suficiente como para saber que esas reglas no funcionan del todo bien...Roger Rosenblatt, ganador de varios premios periodisticos y literarios, tambien tiene experiencia suficiente para reunir no diez sino cincuenta y ocho reglas que nos permitiran vivir el resto de nuestra vida sin complicaciones.Muchas de estas reglas haran fruncir la nariz a la gente seria y circunspecta, que tachara a su autor de cinico irredimible. Pero no creemos que a Roger le preocupe ningun arrebato de ira sagrada, ya que una de sus reglas es preciasmente "No importa". Una regla que sintetiza el resto: no te hagas tantos problemas, y viviras mas y mejor.Facil de decir, dificil de hacer¿Dele una oportunidad a esta guia y dese usted mismo otra oportunidad. Se sentira identificado con muchas de las situaciones con las que Roger ejemplifico sus maximas y se reconocera en muchas de estas tonterias que todos cometemos, sobre todo cuando sufrimos algun ataqie de beunas intenciones...Este es un libro para saborear, soureir, releer y que ¿ estamos seguros ¿ recomendara a su mejor amigo.Wise and witty, Roger Rosenblatt has won several journalistic and literary prizes. Here he offers a set of easy-to-follow rules that will help you age gracefully and live better. You will also learn to avert unnecessary complications and frustrations in your life.
©2000 Roger Rosenblatt (P)2003 Recorded Books, LLC