52 Results for : surrealistic
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Figures Unseen: Selected Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 757min
In the worlds of Steve Rasnic Tem, a father takes his son "fishing" in the deepest part of downtown, flayed rabbits visit a suburban back yard, a man is haunted by a surrealistic nightmare of crutches, a father is unable to rescue his son from a nightmare of trees, a bereaved man transforms memories of his wife into performance art, great moving cliffs of detritus randomly prowl the world, a seemingly pointless life finds final expression in bits of folded paper, a nuclear holocaust brings about a new mythology, an isolated man discovers he’s part of a terrifying community, a photographer discovers the unexpected in the faces of dead children, and a couple’s aging dismantles reality. Winner of the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards, Tem has earned a reputation as one of the finest and most original short fiction writers of our time, blending elements of horror, dark fantasy, science fiction, and surreal nightmare into a genre uniquely his own. This new volume collects for the first time 35 of Tem’s best tales, selected by the author, and includes an introduction by Simon Strantzas. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Godfrey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/112247/bk_acx0_112247_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Death Fires , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 382min
In this shocking thriller set in Baja California, a movie cast and crew on location becomes the setting for murder and depravity. The Director: Visionary and perverse, he coaxes and prods his cast and crew as he tries to bend them to his will in the pursuit of his surrealistic masterpiece. The Actress: Ravishing beautiful, she despises the filmmaker almost as much as she fears him. The Cinematographer: He clashes with the Director’s spontaneous and unorthodox methods, and denies his own clouded past with the Actress. The Actor: A glorious hunk of manhood, he’ll do anything for and with anybody, as long as sex, alcohol, or drugs are involved.... As the cameras roll on a desolate stretch of Mexican coast, and the gruesomely mutilated body of a crew member is found, a terrifying scenario unfolds - and art becomes a matter of life and death. Ron Faust is the author of 14 previous thrillers. He has been praised for his "rare and remarkable talent" (Los Angeles Times), and several of his books have been optioned for films. Before he began writing, he played professional baseball and worked at newspapers in Colorado Springs, San Diego, and Key West. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Bel Davies. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019097/bk_adbl_019097_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Breeding: A Dirty Story About a Dirty Country: Empty Nation Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 205min
The Empty Nation series is sci-fi, romance, political satire, and comedy. The story begins 200 years in the future. In this first volume the framework for the entire series is defined with a wildly concocted futuristic plan by the new United States government to control the economic fate of the world (nothing new). The two main characters in the series, Mary & Jane, are bred and introduced to the listeners. Their adventures from birth to preschool are humorous and quite amazing. But oddly at the same time they’re being manipulated by the US political system and maintain a pleasantly sedated (via government-supplied drugs) state in a surrealistic world. This story has many concepts that are bitter and sweet till you realize you’re reading fiction. The US government in the future is portrayed as an imperialistic, monstrous demon that’s shunned by all other nations. The society in the new America crosses some pretty taboo moral lines supported completely by the new United States Constitution with amendments that legitimize its citizens' lewd sexual behavior. Contains mature themes.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bea Flowers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/143163/bk_acx0_143163_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Final Act: Final Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 435min
Perfect recipe for a thriller mix together: knowing when you are going to die...guns...and an election. Add Russians and stir.Final Act is a fast-paced sequel to Final Notice and has been described as simultaneously realistic and surrealistic...and totally engrossing. It is set in today’s chaotic political climate and gun-crazy culture and features the “only slightly” sci-fi watch - the VT2 - that monitors blood chemistry so accurately that it can predict the wearer’s death within 10, 20, or 30 days.But while Final Notice asked the question “What would you do if you knew - for certain - that you had a couple weeks to live?", Final Act asks, “What might others do if they knew that you only had a couple weeks to live?” And when those “others” include Bratva (the Russian Mafia) and the SVR (formerly the KGB), you have a pause resister that turns “what if” into “what is”.Final Act picks up the VT2 story during a presidential election year, exposing the danger to everyone - especially the candidates. Crafted with suspense, dark humor, irony, and a dash of romance, Final Act casts a clear light on the deep divisions within our country, divisions that have been widened and exploited by a malignant foreign power. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Koprowski. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/207647/bk_acx0_207647_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Healer’s War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 801min
Although perhaps best-known for her lightly humorous fantasies and for her collaborations with Anne McCaffrey on the Petaybee series and the Acorna series, Elizabeth Anne Scarborough has also written The Healer's War, a classic novel of the Vietnam War, enriched with a magical, mystical twist, which won the 1989 Nebula Award for Best Novel of 1988. The Minneapolis Star Tribune called it a "brutal and beautiful book". Scarborough herself was a nurse in Vietnam during the war and she draws on her own personal experiences to create the central character, Lt. Kitty McCulley. McCulley, a young and inexperienced nurse tossed into a stressful and chaotic situation, is having a difficult time reconciling her duty to help and heal with the indifference and overt racism of some of her colleagues and with the horrendously damaged soldiers and Vietnamese civilians whom she encounters during her service at the China Beach medical facilities. She is unexpectedly helped by the mysterious and inexplicable properties of an amulet, given to her by one of her patients, an elderly, dying Vietnamese holy man, which allows her to see other people's "auras" and to understand more about them as a result. This eventually leads to a strange, almost surrealistic journey through the jungle, accompanied by a one-legged boy and a battle-seasoned but crazed soldier. By the end of the journey, McCulley has found herself and a way to live and survive through the madness and destruction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Miles. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004208/bk_adbl_004208_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Bold Saboteurs: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 654min
From one of the 20th century's most innovative authors, a gritty, cinematic tale about a young thief whose grasp on reality is starting to get away from him. At the park where the outcasts of Washington, DC, gather, everyone calls him Yogi. Although only a boy, he steals like a man, taking jewelry and money from wherever and whomever he can. When he's flush, Yogi spends like a prince, eating beef stew and wasting whole afternoons at the cinema. When he's broke, he looks for someone else to rob. At home, Yogi goes by his real name: George Brown. With their violent, alcoholic father absent for long periods of time and their mother too brittle to cope, George and his older brother learn to fend for themselves. Roland becomes a security guard while George turns to a life of crime. But to survive among the prostitutes, muggers, and extortionists who prowl the streets of the nation's capital, a young man must always have his wits about him, and Yogi/George is prone to schizophrenic hallucinations. When he is locked up in jail for a night and experiences his most vivid delusion yet, he fears that the line between sanity and insanity has become permanently blurred. Brilliantly fusing hard-edged realism and surrealistic flights of fantasy, The Bold Saboteurs is a highly original work of art from the groundbreaking author of Who Walk in Darkness. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Raviv Ullman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023171/bk_adbl_023171_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (eBook, ePUB)
Painter, designer, and filmmaker Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was one of the most colorful and controversial figures in 20th-century art. A pioneer of Surrealism, he was both praised and reviled for the subconscious imagery he projected into his paintings, which he sometimes referred to as "hand-painted dream photographs." This early autobiography, which takes him through his late thirties, is as startling and unpredictable as his art. It is superbly illustrated with over 80 photographs of Dalí and his works, and scores of Dalí drawings and sketches. On its first publication, the reviewer of Books observed: "It is impossible not to admire this painter as writer. As a whole, he . . . communicates the snobbishness, self-adoration, comedy, seriousness, fanaticism, in short the concept of life and the total picture of himself he sets out to portray." Dalí's flamboyant self-portrait begins with his earliest recollections and ends at the pinnacle of his earliest successes. His tantalizing chapter titles and headnotes — among them "Intra-Uterine Memories," "Apprenticeship to Glory," "Permanent Expulsion from the School of Fine Arts," "Dandyism and Prison," "I am Disowned by my Family," "My Participation and my Position in the Surrealist Revolution," and "Discovery of the Apparatus for Photographing Thought" — only hint at the compelling revelations to come. Here are fascinating glimpses of the brilliant, ambitious, and relentlessly self-promoting artist who designed theater sets, shop interiors, and jewelry as readily as he made surrealistic paintings and films. Here is the mind that could envision and create with great technical virtuosity images of serene Raphaelesque beauty one moment and nightmarish landscapes of soft watches, burning giraffes, and fly-covered carcasses the next. For anyone interested in 20th-century art and one of its most gifted and charismatic figures, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí is must reading.- Shop: buecher
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Dark Psychology Secrets: Everyday Practical Guide on How to Defend Yourself from Covert Mind Manipulation, Emotional Deception, Influence People, Hypnosis, Mind Control, NLP Techniques, Brainwashing , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 265min
Do you want to learn how not to be controlled and dominated by manipulating, lying, selfish, and unreliable people? Do you wish to develop your ability to recognize and avoid them? Do you know people who have huge egos and only think about their needs? Do you want to drive out those who tyrannize and scare others (this only embodies their weakness and inability to have a healthy relationship)?If you know someone like this in your life such as an office colleague or your boss at work, your partner or a friend, or a parent or another family member, this audiobook will be helpful to solve your problems.Here we will explore the more sordid and dark aspects of the human psyche as well as some methods of applying our knowledge for use in our everyday lives.You will discover the hidden meaning of the face on the audiobook cover image and how surrealistic images and subliminal messages can affect our choices.We will explore the following areas that are principles of "dark psychology":Dark personality traits and how dark psychology is used to control people.How to analyze ourselves before judging others and techniques that are so effective.Studies of dark psychology showcasing how much harm a master manipulator can do.This audiobook is a journey into the art of persuasion and manipulation in history.Dark triad and psychopathy in our daily lives (family, work, friends, and online)The dirty games played by family members and lovers used to control their prey.This audiobook will teach you how to deal with psychopaths at the workplace and the top 10 jobs for psychopaths.An interesting analysis of social engineering and the art of human hacking.Sometimes, people have trouble recognizing false statements and differentiating fake from real emotions, even with the people close to them.Dark Psychology Secrets offers you valuable tips that are easy to ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: CJ Greiner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/186859/bk_acx0_186859_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Portrait of a Lady , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1435min
Exclusively from Audible When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors, declaring that she will never be wed. It is only when she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the cultivated but worthless Gilbert Osmond that she discovers that wealth is a two-edged sword. She becomes a victim of her own provincialism and the scheming of her friends, learning only too late that there is a price to be paid for independence. A tragic tale of love and betrayal, it still resonates with audiences today. With its subtle delineation of American characters in a European setting, The Portrait of a Lady is considered the masterpiece of the first phase of James's career and arguably his most popular story. Within it we find a reflection of James's interest in the differences between the New World and the Old, often to the detriment of the former. A film adaptation was made in 1996 by New Zealand director Jane Campion, starring Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, and Barbara Hershey. Narrator Biography Having begun his career on stage, John Wood spent seven years in television before eventually playing lead roles in Tom Stoppard's teleplays in 1967. After two Tony nominations for his performances in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead and Sherlock Holmes, he won the award for Best Actor for his role in Stoppard's surrealistic farce, Travesties, in 1976. He also had a long career with the Royal Shakespeare Company and continued his theatre work in both America and the UK, eventually receiving a Laurence Olivier Award nomination in 1997 for his role in Stoppard's Invention of Love. In 1996, Wood performed in BBC Radio 3's audio production o ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Wood. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/003426/bk_bbcw_003426_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bitter Ends: A Short Story Collection , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 68min
Alex Issa's thought-provoking stories are difficult to classify. From post-apocalyptic fables tackling restraint in the absence of law, to tales of hit-man morality, his short fiction has challenged listeners and delighted critics with its minimalist sensibilities and ever-present subtext. Here, six almost surreal short stories lead the listener through disturbing and somehow beautiful locations in the mind. 1. Of Princesses and Freaks: Two Short Tales Bella's Slippers Locked in the tower, Bella laments her fate, the decisions she made about the liquidation of her mother's estate, and the ambitions that have left her helpless on unforgiving stone with rodents and roaches her only companions. Big Top Slick A father explains to his son why running away to the circus isn't the best option in this surrealistic and vaguely philosophical exploration of society, shunning, and human nature. 2. Swings Don't Grow Lonely: A Tale of Endings Richard, an old man awaiting the end, and Anne, a young girl with burdens no girl should bear, sit on the swings and circle around the only topic of import. In this moving and bleak story of both untimely and timely ends, Alex Issa draws emotion effortlessly and powerfully with the very picture of bittersweet truth. 3. Dancing with Bounties The Blank Twins, violent bounty hunters, hired usually for their particular ability to forget the "Alive" part of "Wanted: Dead or Alive", lie in wait for a serial killer with 19 brutal rapes and murders to his name. Dark, violent, and strangely comic, the unforgettable and more than a little disturbing world of Alex Issa is sure to please. This thrilling short story is one of many in the Devil Twins series. 4. Dry County (Devil Twins 2) Michael and Barton Blink are back, and this time, their bounty takes them to, of all places, a town without a drop of alcohol for sale. The Devil Twins ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Feather. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/067110/bk_acx0_067110_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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