

Skios
Author: Michael Frayn
Narrator: Robin Sachs
Unabridged: 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Published: 06/19/2012
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Michael Frayn
Narrator: Robin Sachs
Unabridged: 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Published: 06/19/2012
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Michael Frayn is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling Headlong, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection and a Booker Prize finalist, and Spies, which received the Whitbread Novel Award. He has also written a memoir, My Father's Fortune, and fifteen plays, among them Noises Off and Copenhagen, which won three Tony Awards. He lives just south of London.
This 'mistaken identity' farce takes place on the beautiful Greek island of Skios. Dr. Norman Wilfred, a well-known British scientist (in some very small circles), is on his way to deliver an esoteric lecture to the annual meeting of the hoity-toity Fred Toppler Foundation. Wilfred's been invited by......more
Best selling author's mistaken identity / swapped lives farce that, to me, tries too hard to be funny, and thus is not funny. 4 out of 12.......more
Skios may a play posing as a novel, but it is in good company: practically all the characters in this very funny farce are pretending to be someone they are not. And those that don’t pretend to be someone else have it forced upon them. I listened to the audio production of this book, performed with......more