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Sanctuary
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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- Very Jones
- 11-02-15
Loved the reader!
Where does Sanctuary rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
A memorable listening experience. I found myself rewinding and listening repeatedly to passages. The prose is so rich that with each re-listen, more details emerge.
What other book might you compare Sanctuary to and why?
I have also listened to and loved Absalom, Absalom!, The Sound and the Fury, and Light in August. I preferred Sanctuary to Light in August, but do not consider Sanctuary as brilliant as Absalom or Sound.
What does Stephen Hoye bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
I must disagree with fellow readers who did not like Hoye's interpretations of the book's many Southern dialects. Hoye's voice sounds very similar to Faulkner's own inflections as heard in his Nobel speech. I also thought Hoye brought realism and authenticity to the range of voices in the novel which span the social classes--from the Memphis Madam, Miss Reba, to Horace Benbow's gentrified drawl, to the hillbilly twang of the bootleggers
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- Dana
- 10-20-10
disappointment
This is another good book really poorly narrated. The half-enervated singsong of the narrator's voice seems intended to reflect the music of Faulkner's prose, but the effect is like singing Emily Dickinson's poems to the tune of The Yellow Rose of Texas - it just doesn't match the emotional tenor of the content. How do you square singsong with a text filled with words like "vicious" in the first half-hour? The effect is stilted and so distant from the actual content of the text that listening is a process of battling to filter out the narrator's voice. I gave up. This is the second $14.95 I've wasted on unlistenable narration in the last few months.
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- W Perry Hall
- 04-27-14
Temple Drake and Faulkner's seediest novel
A tale revolving around Faulkner's second favorite female character, Temple Drake (after, of course, Caddy Compson), an Ole Miss co-ed cutie thrown into the devil's pit by circumstances. This book is not for the weak of will. It's the only Faulkner novel, I think, that describes in Faulknerese masturB, and centers on rape and murder. Faulkner claims it was a "potboiler" written solely for profit. There is evidence otherwise, though it's not nearly on par with his 3 most famous, "The Sound and the Fury," "Absalom, Absalom!" and As I Lay Dying."
It's a better place to start on Faulkner than the 3 above. I started with The Sound and the Fury 25 years ago, tried twice and quit. If you haven't read it, and you don't have to read it as part of a lit class, you will need a companion book. Believe me. In my own personal Southern Renaissance, I came back with a fury in the past couple of years and have nearly finished them all.
In any case, you might start with this or "Light in August" (which is more accessible and, in my opinion, as outstanding as all but The Sound and the Fury) and go from there. I'll say 4.5 stars, and round up.
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- B. Leddy
- 01-31-11
Poorly narrated
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- Matt
- 03-31-19
Deceptively brilliant.
I feel like its narrative structure inspired Pulp Fiction. I found the first third of the book a little slow. and annoying. During the second third I started to think "This is pretty good and there is a lot more going on under the surface than first meets the eye. In the midst of the last third it hits you in the face that this book is not only brilliantly constructed, but very innovative narratively considering when it was first published. Its a dark, mean, deep and amazing novel. I loved it and recommended it highly.
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- Abstraction
- 04-09-10
Painful
Not Faulkner's best by a long shot, but the book is better than the narrator allows it to be. The effect is similar to that of having a mosquito at your ear while you are trying to sleep. . . .
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- Maya
- 07-29-10
Disappointing
This narrator is absolutely destroying my love of William Faulkner.
He is possibly the worst narrator I have come across so far.
I am giving this one star because someone needs to tell this guy not to perform any female characters or characters he thinks are slow-witted.
I will be avoiding this narrator at all costs.
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- George
- 05-21-21
Irony of the Old South
Faulkner is the bard of the post Civil War South. No one can weave a tale like him. Possibly Americas greatest.
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- Ryan M.
- 04-08-21
Possibly inflated rating from big Faulkner fan
Faulkner’s first commercial success tells of the rape and kidnapping of Temple Drake—a slight, coy “Ol’ Miss” student—the crime she witnesses, and the sordid aftermath of both. To help his wronged client and his family, lawyer Horace Benbow tries to discover Temple's whereabouts, all while under suspicion himself. While not Faulkner’s best work, it has merit belying his claim that it was a potboiler written merely for profit, as its sensational features are outshone by the craftsmanship involved in depicting different types and shades of moral degradation expressed through memorable characters as well as small groups and mobs. Stephen Hoye’s narration has an elegiac quality that implies that something is being lost with each sentence’s slow unfolding. This often suits a text that renders so much actual and perceived loss, but not always; it seems an inappropriate way to read, for instance, a description of a table being set. The Southern dialect was believable (to this ignorant Northerner, anyway), and most characters were differentiated adequately, though failure to modulate pitch at times caused confusion.
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- Israel Centeno
- 03-19-21
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Compared to other interpretations of Faulkner's novels, this reader fell short. Boring. Only the great story written by Faulkner, with a life of its own stood up for itself.
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- Stephen Gott
- 01-21-18
Evil Under The Sun
William Faulkner's "Sanctuary" is a novel that will shock you, through its violence and language.Even after 80 odd years this tale of murder and sex is powerful enough to disturb and lingers long in the mind.Even though it is well read by Stephen Hoye,at times it can be a difficult listen.A Greek Tragedy,set in the Deep South !
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- Welsh Mafia
- 10-20-08
?Evil has its logic too? ? no comfort read
Approached forward from ?As I Lay Dying? and backward from Cormac McCarthy?s ?No Country For Old Men,? nothing really prepared me for ?Sanctuary.?
Scouring the internet for reviews, the only thing I got was a hysterical liken to Tobe Hooper?s ?Texas Chainsaw Massacre? ? which is plainly nonsense. Be warned, however, there is still an ?if you dare? quality to this book which belies its 1931 publication date.
Sanctuary lies at the fountainhead of the Southern Gothic genre and, had the reviewer seen Tracey Letts? stage play ?Killer Joe? which I saw when it exploded onto London?s West End for a short controversial run in the mid 1990s, then I?m sure I?d have applauded the comparison and somewhat tempered my approach in heeding the warning.
Language and stereotyping are important weapons in a culture and it is important to assert that what passes in ?Sanctuary? reflects rather than endorses that unctuous Southern Aristocracy. The words and descriptions are all here bringing an immediate dissonance that may have you throwing down the book in disgust.
But it is the milieu familiarly of Cormac McCarthy and, perhaps - not so familiarly of John Steinbeck and, I?d suggest, Quentin Tarrantino. In fact, the narrative structure of Sanctuary and the venal central cast seems to perfectly inform Tarrantino?s filmic work.
You have to view the whole from its completion and be prepared to work hard, put your sensitivities to one side and complete the catharsis before coming out of this Grecian tragedy into the bright sunny day of the rainy 6th arrondissement of Temple Drake?s ?Paris with Daddy.?
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