- Title:
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Dunbar: King Lear Retold
- Series:
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Hogarth Shakespeare
- Written by:
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Edward St Aubyn
- Read by:
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Henry Goodman
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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7 hours 27 minutes
- Published:
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October 05 2017
- Available Date:
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October 05 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489410306
- Genres:
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Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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‘St Aubyn’s prose has an easy charm that masks a ferocious, searching intellect. One of the finest writers of his generation.’
The Times
A tale of our times: despotism, finance and family clash in Edward St Aubyn’s savage and heartbreaking take on King Lear.
‘I really did have an empire, you know,’ said Dunbar. ‘Have I ever told you the story of how it was stolen from me?’
Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over care of the family firm to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan. But relations quickly soured, leaving him doubting the wisdom of past decisions ...
Now imprisoned in a care home in the Lake District with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is hot on his heels. But who will find him first, his beloved youngest daughter, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so keen to divest him of his estate?
Edward St Aubyn is renowned for his masterwork, the five Melrose novels, which dissect with savage and beautiful precision the agonies of family life. His take on King Lear, Shakespeare’s most devastating family story, is an excoriating novel for and of our times – an examination of power, money and the value of forgiveness.
'St Aubyn’s books are at once extremely dark and extremely funny.’
The New York Times
'Everything St. Aubyn writes is worth reading for the cleansing rancor of his intelligence and the fierce elegance of his prose.'
New York Times Book Review