Maureen Corrigan
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1,229 appearances
40 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 9 Sep
Maureen Corrigan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Emily Saint John Mandel is a novelist celebrated for, among other things, her prescience.
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Station eleven, her best known novel, was published in twenty fourteen.
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When the pandemic hit globally in twenty twenty, critics and readers began to remark on how Station eleven anticipated the pandemic, given that its dystopian plot is set in motion by the outbreak of a worldwide virus.
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Let's hope that Mandel's gift for writing prophetic fiction is overrated because here's the opening phrase of the opening sentence of her latest novel Exit Party.
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In the first spring after the collapse of the United States, the
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Fortunately, for all its darkness, Exit Party lights plenty of signal fires along the shore to keep readers open to possibilities that may lie ahead.
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The plot here, like the plots in the previous three Mandel novels I've read, is ingenious, eerie, and complex, but not so complex it dampens curiosity.
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Here's the briefest of teasers.
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In the spring of twenty thirty one, a forty eight year old woman named Ari, recently released after eighteen years in prison.
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Goes to a party in Los Angeles with her roommate, Gloria.
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The Los Angeles they live in is an anxious place given the violence of recent history.
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We're told that
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The United States had come undone, following a coup d'etat.
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Several states had seceded within a week of the coup, and war had broken out within the month, and
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Now the fighting had subsided, for the most part, and Ari had been released into an uneasy aftermath of
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The occasion for the party is this new relative peace in the city, but as the two women and others sense, there's something wrong with the party.
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It has extra people because some guests seem to be duplicating themselves and
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Towards the end of this peculiar evening, the host, a sweet man named Karim, enters his kitchen, which doesn't have an outside door, and disappears forever.
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Years later another attendee confides to Ari, I think the party was also a door.
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Without giving too much away, I'll also say that the doppelganger theme extends not just to people, but also to a country and
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