The Double Life of Alfred Buber, David Schmahmann
The Double Life of Alfred Buber, David Schmahmann
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The Double Life of Alfred Buber

Author: David Schmahmann

Narrator: Simon Boughey

Unabridged: 7 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/21/2021

Categories: Fiction, Humorous


Synopsis

A splendid original tale, Alfred Buber is warm, smart, romantic, but his life is as barren as an ice floe, an embarrassing collage of successes and humiliations that add up to... nothing. He lives as if he has landed in a strange country, nowhere he recognizes.

Can an-oh-so respectable Boston lawyer, out of options, out of hope, lonely beyond measure, stray way outside the lines and find love?

Can he step into the tawdry dark, and back into the wholesome light, and not be affected?

Alfred Buber thinks he can. But the line between his two lives is a thin one.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa

Ah, the unreliable narrator! It drives some people to distraction but it's a literary device I love. In some cases it's subtle, as if the person speaking isn't that different from you or me. We each perceive things differently. Telling a story from our individual perspective is not a lie, nor is it......more

Goodreads review by Allison

What to say about Alfred Buber, charming miscreant, buttoned-up attorney, purveyor of ethically questionable sexual services, a man reminiscent of both Henry Higgins and Humbert Humbert? The unreliable narrator is a tricky thing to pull off, but Schmahmann does it brilliantly, right from the opening......more