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A Twist in the Tale
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Manufacturer: Macmillan Audio
Author: Jeffrey Archer
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Our Price: $11.96
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Manufacturer: Macmillan Audio
Author: Jeffrey Archer
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
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A Twist in the Tale Description
Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781593975166
Format: Abridged
ISBN: 1593975163
Label: Macmillan Audio
Manufacturer: Macmillan Audio
Number Of Items: 3
Publication Date: 2004-11-01
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Product Release Date: 2004-10-21
Studio: Macmillan Audio
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781593975166
Format: Abridged
ISBN: 1593975163
Label: Macmillan Audio
Manufacturer: Macmillan Audio
Number Of Items: 3
Publication Date: 2004-11-01
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Product Release Date: 2004-10-21
Studio: Macmillan Audio
Editorial Review of A Twist in the Tale
No one can weave a web of suspense, deliver a jolt of surprise, or teach a lesson in living like bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. From Africa to the Middle East, and from London to Beijing, Archer takes us to places we've never seen and introduces us to people we'll never forget.
Meet the philandering husband who thinks he's committed the perfect murder; the self-assured chess champion who plays a beautiful woman for stakes far higher than cash; and the finance minister who needs to crack the secrets of a Swiss bank. Jeffrey Archer's collection of twelve spellbinding stories will sweep you on a journey of thwarted ambition, undying passion, and unswerving honor that you'll never forget.
Meet the philandering husband who thinks he's committed the perfect murder; the self-assured chess champion who plays a beautiful woman for stakes far higher than cash; and the finance minister who needs to crack the secrets of a Swiss bank. Jeffrey Archer's collection of twelve spellbinding stories will sweep you on a journey of thwarted ambition, undying passion, and unswerving honor that you'll never forget.
Customer Reviews of A Twist in the Tale
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: disappointed
Review: two stories at best were worth reading in this book of short stories.i guess i expected far too much as kane and abel is so very awesome[same author].
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: AN ACES STORY AND READING
Review:
"A" is for Archer. "A" is also what readers give to the political thrillers flowing from the pen (always felt tipped, we're told) of this popular British author. He's often been found at the top of the New York Times best-selling list.
Also top listed is Martin Jarvis, talented stage and film performer who gives voice to these tales of duplicity, cupidity, and suspense. (Jarvis also reads Archer's "A Matter Of Honor," another Audio Renaissance edition.)
Archer is so skillful that it seems he almost teases the listener by dropping clues that allow us to think we've figured the matter out when we haven't at all.
"A Twist In The Tale" is a bit of a departure for the author as it is a collection of 12 short stories all plot and character driven, all intriguing listening. We find an unfaithful husband who does a great deal more than cheat on his wife , and in another story discover that chess is not just a game.
Knowing Archer, we must have a corrupt diplomat, and in another yarn a controlling father learns a sad lesson.
Someone once said that a first-rate short story is much harder to write than a full length novel. Jeffrey Archer has mastered both genres.
- Gail Cooke
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Good short stories!
Review: The 12 stories were all good but I specially liked the first (the Perfect Murther) and the last stories (Cristina Rosenthal, which made me cry).
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Twist someone's arm to buy you this
Review: Whilst Arhcer's latest collection of short stories 'To Cut a Long Story Short' disappointed fans worldwide, only managing to keep up the pace for half the book, this collection keeps the high standard up all the way. These stories are brilliantly written and they mostly have twists at the end but sometimes midway. I don't really want to get into the plots of any of these stories as otherwise because of the twist I would give it away for people who haven't read the collection yet and I hate it when people do that. Settings are in the kitchen, courtroom and other places and characters roam across the gender and species. Anyway you'll enjoy this collection, just don't waste your money on 'To Cut a Long Story Short' as only the first couple of stories are good in that collection.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Archer aims at Maugham
Review: Jeffrey Archer's 1988 collection of twelve short stories is not entitled *A Twist in the Tale* for nothing. The concluding paragraphs of each story--sometimes just the final sentence--inevitably offer the reader some kind of surprise, whether slight and easily swallowed ("A La Carte") or groan inducing ("Just Good Friends") or the product of a sort of dishonest storytelling that leaves one feeling ill treated ("The Perfect Murder"). Among the best of the lot are "A La Carte"--the story of a young man compelled by his father to delay entering his chosen profession--and "Honor among Thieves," in which a wine connoisseur is put to the test by a "humbug." But all of the stories (ten of them are reportedly based on actual events) are worth a read. Archer writes in a commendably straightforward style that is easily digested: it is not surprising that, as the jacket copy of the book informs us, Archer has been hailed as "the natural successor to Maugham."**
**See Somerset Maugham's autobiographical *The Summing Up* for his discussion of the three qualities for which he strove in his writing: lucidity, simplicity, and euphony.
Reviewed by Debra Hamel, author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece
Review Summary: disappointed
Review: two stories at best were worth reading in this book of short stories.i guess i expected far too much as kane and abel is so very awesome[same author].
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: AN ACES STORY AND READING
Review:
"A" is for Archer. "A" is also what readers give to the political thrillers flowing from the pen (always felt tipped, we're told) of this popular British author. He's often been found at the top of the New York Times best-selling list.
Also top listed is Martin Jarvis, talented stage and film performer who gives voice to these tales of duplicity, cupidity, and suspense. (Jarvis also reads Archer's "A Matter Of Honor," another Audio Renaissance edition.)
Archer is so skillful that it seems he almost teases the listener by dropping clues that allow us to think we've figured the matter out when we haven't at all.
"A Twist In The Tale" is a bit of a departure for the author as it is a collection of 12 short stories all plot and character driven, all intriguing listening. We find an unfaithful husband who does a great deal more than cheat on his wife , and in another story discover that chess is not just a game.
Knowing Archer, we must have a corrupt diplomat, and in another yarn a controlling father learns a sad lesson.
Someone once said that a first-rate short story is much harder to write than a full length novel. Jeffrey Archer has mastered both genres.
- Gail Cooke
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Good short stories!
Review: The 12 stories were all good but I specially liked the first (the Perfect Murther) and the last stories (Cristina Rosenthal, which made me cry).
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Twist someone's arm to buy you this
Review: Whilst Arhcer's latest collection of short stories 'To Cut a Long Story Short' disappointed fans worldwide, only managing to keep up the pace for half the book, this collection keeps the high standard up all the way. These stories are brilliantly written and they mostly have twists at the end but sometimes midway. I don't really want to get into the plots of any of these stories as otherwise because of the twist I would give it away for people who haven't read the collection yet and I hate it when people do that. Settings are in the kitchen, courtroom and other places and characters roam across the gender and species. Anyway you'll enjoy this collection, just don't waste your money on 'To Cut a Long Story Short' as only the first couple of stories are good in that collection.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Archer aims at Maugham
Review: Jeffrey Archer's 1988 collection of twelve short stories is not entitled *A Twist in the Tale* for nothing. The concluding paragraphs of each story--sometimes just the final sentence--inevitably offer the reader some kind of surprise, whether slight and easily swallowed ("A La Carte") or groan inducing ("Just Good Friends") or the product of a sort of dishonest storytelling that leaves one feeling ill treated ("The Perfect Murder"). Among the best of the lot are "A La Carte"--the story of a young man compelled by his father to delay entering his chosen profession--and "Honor among Thieves," in which a wine connoisseur is put to the test by a "humbug." But all of the stories (ten of them are reportedly based on actual events) are worth a read. Archer writes in a commendably straightforward style that is easily digested: it is not surprising that, as the jacket copy of the book informs us, Archer has been hailed as "the natural successor to Maugham."**
**See Somerset Maugham's autobiographical *The Summing Up* for his discussion of the three qualities for which he strove in his writing: lucidity, simplicity, and euphony.
Reviewed by Debra Hamel, author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece