Grace (Commuter's Library S.) [Audio Cassette]

James Joyce (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1883049016 | ISBN-13: 978-1883049010 | Publication Date: March 1993 | Edition: abridged edition

Six beautifully written, accessible stories including Grace and the famous Araby. Also included are After the Race, Clay, A Little Cloud and Counterparts. Unabridged

"In Setlock's reading, Joyce's voice of stark pathos is clear, emotive and immediate". -- Publishers Weekly

Editorial Reviews

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It would be difficult to overpraise this wonderful recording from Joyce's Dubliners. Setlock has a beautiful, subtly accented, fluid, flowing voice, a spritely voice, perfect for Joyce's spinsters and his drunks, the priests and little boys, the old politicians. Setlock does a superb job with the dialogue, with the incredible sensuality of Joyce's work, the telling detail, the moments of irretrievable loss. If one could change anything, it might be to slow him down slightly, the more to savour the words, but that would interfere with the flow and energy of Joyce's prose. E.J.M. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Commuters Library; abridged edition edition (March 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883049016
• ISBN-13: 978-1883049010
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,255,716 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #23 in Books > Books on Cassette > Authors, A-Z > ( J ) > Joyce, James

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5.0 out of 5 stars The finest recordings of the works of James Joyce, November 3, 2009

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This review is from: Grace (Commuter's Library S.) (Audio Cassette)

Richard Setlock truly has the best approach to these short stories of Mr Joyce from the Dubliners short story collection.

Setlock maintains a restraint, controlled tone, understatement, almost soothing (while wearily real), intimate, never irritating, that withstands repeated listening. In fact, after hearing anyone else read these same works, you will rush back to these increasingly difficult to find recordings from Setlock and the Commuter's Library series of three collections of the entire Dubliners (Norton Critical Edition).

This grouping entitled Grace contains the middle to later stories in the collection. The collection which follows contains Ivy Day and the Dead. These tales are of special interest as the Public Life stories.

But I have not come to comment upon the collection of tales in themselves, as there are several other far more insightful, scholarly, coherent and careful studies. I merely recommend you hear them here, by Setlock, and promise you to these tapes you will always return, above any other recording, including by the noted "celebrity" voices available elsewhere. The others will quickly grow overdone, highly dramatized, irritating. These are to hear forever.

The greatest drawback of course is that they are not commercially available in digital format, only on these analogue tapes. And how cool is that, too!

These restrained and listenable tapes even make the great Donal Donnely's careful recording of Ulysses seem overwrought and off-key!