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Rent The Voice from the Edge: Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes,
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Narrator: With New Commentaries Performed
Format: Unabridged-MP3
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: Oct 2009
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $29.95
Synopsis
Blackstone Audio presents: Volume 3 of THE VOICE FROM THE EDGE: PRETTY MAGGIE MONEYEYESThe Imaginative Fiction of Harlan Ellison ® performed, with new commentaries, by the Author
For the third time, down that multi-colored rabbit hole to the unpredictable, singular, frequently disturbing Ellison Wonderland of the writer the New York Times summed up thus: 'Harlan Ellison has the spellbinding quality of a great nonstop talker with a cultural warehouse for a mind.' And this third expedition comes not a moment too soon. . . at exactly the moment a brilliant new film documentary, Dreams with Sharp Teeth, a film of the life and work of Harlan Ellison is beginning it s premieres across America.
Here, in eleven stories, a true memoir, five brand-new commentaries, and a linked horror story of Jack the Ripper by Ellison s great friend, the late Robert Bloch, the mesmerizing audio performance by the Author provides full measure of reason why Ellison has won Listen Up, Audio, and a shelf full of other awards including investiture as one of the few Grand Masters of the literature of the fantastic. This one is the best yet.
Reviews
No one could read Harlan Ellison as well as Harlan Ellison and his background comments on several of these stories make his recording even better. But overall, the stories themselves were weaker than those in the previous two story collections. They are generally more predictable, which is a real shortcoming if your story relies on an ironic twist at the end and the reader can see it coming from the outset. Its still worth a listen to hear the commentary of this extraordinary writer.