AUGUST BLUE by Deborah Levy, read by Alix Dunmore
A quest for reinvention
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Show Notes
Alix Dunmore’s lilting voice and English accent capture the musicality of Deborah Levy’s audiobook. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Alan Minskoff discuss this fascinating portrait of a woman in crisis. Elsa, a virtuoso pianist, is at a standstill. She dyes her hair blue and sets about inventing a new persona. The pandemic is taking place as the plot moves around Europe. Elsa’s quest is aided by a doppelganger who appears sometimes as a person, sometimes as a figment of Elsa’s imagination. Levy expertly creates scenes packed with meaning as Elsa comes to understand her provenance, passion, and place in the world.
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