The Beautiful Miscellaneous
Dominic Smith, , read by Paul Michael Garcia. . Blackstone Audio, $32.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-7861-5785-3
Smith's novel of the painfully ordinary son of a brilliant scientist, and his sudden acquisition of marvelous powers of memory, is read by Garcia with a taste for melodrama. Garcia's melodramatic streak is understated, prodded less by emoting than by tone of voice and careful pauses. Each sentence ends with a slight downturn, as if inflated hopes have rapidly dwindled to nothingness. Garcia, a stage actor by training, treats Smith's novel as an extended monologue to be performed, summoning the moods and sensations of its prose via subtle shifts of emphasis. The result is a performance-driven audiobook, rendered in minimalist fashion.
Reviewed on: 09/24/2007
Genre: Audio
Analog Audio Cassette - 978-0-7861-4979-7
Analog Audio Cassette - 978-0-7861-6807-1
Compact Disc - 978-0-7861-6806-4
Hardcover - 329 pages - 978-0-7432-7123-3
MP3 CD - 978-0-7861-6958-0
Other - 1 pages - 978-1-4332-3972-4
Other - 336 pages - 978-1-4165-5899-6
Paperback - 352 pages - 978-0-7432-7125-7
