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Spoonbenders : a novel / Daryl Gregory.

Gregory, Daryl, (author.). Fliakos, Ari, (narrator.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781524734800
  • Physical Description: 11 sound discs (14 hours)
  • Publisher: New York : Random House Audio, ℗2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Unabridged.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Ari Fliakos.
Subject: Families > Fiction.
Psychic ability > Fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Sitka.

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  • AudioFile Reviews : AudioFile Reviews 2017 August
    Narrator Ari Fliakos guides listeners through the Telemachus family's misadventures as this story jumps back and forth between the past and the present. Thirty years ago, con-man and cardsharp Teddy Telemachus married Maureen McKinnon, whose real psychic powers allowed her to do things Teddy could only pretend to. Now, the family is in shambles. Their powers are on the fritz, and their reputation is ruined. Every member of the Telemachus family has his or her own complex story, and Fliakos capably moves between the shifting points of view, creating empathy for each character. He's especially memorable as Frankie, the family's fast-talking down-on-his-luck telekinetic, and as Matty, Teddy's teenage grandson. The off-the-wall story combines mobsters, clairvoyance, and America Online, and Fliakos's empathetic treatment of the characters makes it surprisingly relatable. E.C. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
  • Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2017 July #5

    In his newest work of speculative fiction, World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award–winner Gregory introduces the dysfunctional Amazing Telemachus Family, all but one of whom possess some variation of a seventh sense. The outlier is grandfather Teddy, con man and cardsharp. His deceased wife, Maureen, was a true psychic, as is his son Buddy. His older son, Frankie, is telekinetic, his daughter, Irene, a human lie detector. Her young son, Matty, takes out-of-body journeys. The author uses this mix of fantasy and family life to present a multigenre mash-up that includes a couple of romances, scams, a coming-of-age tale, government duplicity, gangsters with guns, and, not least of all, genuine magic. Narrator Fliakos vocally underlines Teddy's love for Maureen, Frankie's frantic attempts to avoid the wrath of mobster Nick Pusateri, Irene's difficulty living in a world of liars, Buddy's inability to cope with his knowledge of the future, and the poignancy of Matty's sweetly sad love for his cousin, and the greasiness of CIA Agent Smalls's deal with the family. In flashbacks, Fliakos gives Maureen the voice of the most caring, dependable psychic wife a fast-talking wheeler-dealer could want. A Knopf hardcover. (June)

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