E-audiobook
Heads you win a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9781427299215
- ISBN: 1427299218
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote
1 online resource. - Publisher: [New York, NY] : Macmillan Audio, 2018.
Content descriptions
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Richard Armitage. |
| Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed November 13, 2018). |
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| Subject: | Immigrants -- United States -- Fiction United States -- Fiction England -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
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Electronic resources
- AudioFile Reviews : AudioFile Reviews 2019 January
It's Russia in the 1960s. Elena and her teenage son have a choice to make about which ship to take to escape KGB threats. They flip a coin (hence the title) to decide between America or England. Listeners are then treated to alternating chapters portraying their lives in each country. Narrator Richard Armitage successfully voices a Russian accent for the lead characters while doing British, American, and assorted other accents for the many secondary characters. Listeners may have to work a bit to get into the rhythm of the two parallel plots and may find the final chapters a bit confusing when the two stories are brought together. Nevertheless, Armitage provides an engaging listening experience. E.Q. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine - Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews - Audio And Video Online Reviews 1991-2018
Alexander Karpenko escapes with his mother from Leningrad in 1968. Given a last-minute opportunity to stow away on a container vessel, he must choose between one headed for England and another bound for America; he flips a coin. What follows are the simultaneous lives of Alex, who voyages to New York, and Sasha, who disembarks at Southampton, settling in London. Making very different choices yet following many similar patterns, these parallel lives create a fascinating what if scenario until the surprising twist that occurs at the end. Archer's compelling narrative spans diverse cultures, and Armitage proves an able interpreter of these stories as they unfold on both sides of the Atlantic. He nimbly changes accents for Russian, British, and American characters in a variety of social strata, a feat made all the more difficult by the alternating story lines. If his Boston accents (including at least one prominent historical figure) sound a little too similar to his Brooklyn accents, that is a quibble in a narration that is otherwise flawless and riveting. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews. - Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2019 May #1
Alexander Karpenko escapes with his mother from Leningrad in 1968. Given a last-minute opportunity to stow away on a container vessel, he must choose between one headed for England and another bound for America; he flips a coin. What follows are the simultaneous lives of Alex, who voyages to New York, and Sasha, who disembarks at Southampton, settling in London. Making very different choices yet following many similar patterns, these parallel lives create a fascinating what if scenario until the surprising twist that occurs at the end. Archer's compelling narrative spans diverse cultures, and Armitage proves an able interpreter of these stories as they unfold on both sides of the Atlantic. He nimbly changes accents for Russian, British, and American characters in a variety of social strata, a feat made all the more difficult by the alternating story lines. If his Boston accents (including at least one prominent historical figure) sound a little too similar to his Brooklyn accents, that is a quibble in a narration that is otherwise flawless and riveting. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2018 June #2
In 1968, after his father is assassinated by the KGB, Russian teenager Alexander Karpenko flips a coin to decide whether he and his mother should immigrate (desperately) to London or to New York. Readers get two versions of what might have happened, depending on that flip. Major promotion.
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