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  • Avenue of Mysteries

  • By: John Irving
  • Narrated by: Armando Duran
  • Length: 20 hrs and 50 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (23 ratings)

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Avenue of Mysteries

By: John Irving
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Publisher's Summary

As we grow older - most of all, in what we remember and what we dream - we live in the past. Sometimes we live more vividly in the past than in the present.

As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but his dreams and memories will travel with him; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. 'An aura of fate had marked him,' John Irving writes. 'The chain of events, the links in our lives - what leads us where we're going, the courses we follow to our ends, what we don't see coming, and what we do - all this can be mysterious, or simply unseen, or even obvious.'

Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past - in Mexico - collides with his future.

©2015 John Irving (P)2015 Random House AudioBooks

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I persisted but I couldn't finish this tome.

What would have made Avenue of Mysteries better?

It would have been better if it was along the lines of "A Prayer for Owen Meany" or " A Son of the Circus" To rambling & just a bit weird for me.

Would you ever listen to anything by John Irving again?

Might

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  • Sue
  • 03-03-2017

Can't get enough of John Irving

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Definitely. John Irving always enages the reader/listener in such a way that when the book is over you almost grieve for it.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Lupe because she took no crap, and loved her brother enough to die for him

What about Armando Duran’s performance did you like?

He was able to change his voice only slightly and yet you could tell the characters apart, plus his Spanish accent was perfect.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

When Lupe died... It's making me cry now just thinking about it.

Any additional comments?

John Irving is an amazing author. Please make audio versions of more of his back catalogue. The World According to Garp, and The Hotel New Hampshire at least. They are classics.

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