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    Cloud
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    Audiobook13 hours

    Cloud

    Written by Eric McCormack

    Narrated by Robert Ian Mackenzie

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    "Why, when we take such care to disguise our true selves from others, would we expect them to be an open book to us?" Harry Steen, a businessman travelling in Mexico, ducks into an old bookstore to escape a frightening deluge. Inside, he makes a serendipitous discovery: a mid-nineteenth-century account of a sinister storm cloud that plagued an isolated Scottish village and caused many gruesome and unexplainable deaths. Harry knows the village well; he travelled there as a young man to take up a teaching post following the death of his parents. It was there that he met the woman whose love and betrayal have haunted him every day since. Presented with this astonishing record, Harry resolves to seek out the ghosts of his past and return to the very place where he encountered the fathomless depths of his own heart. With Cloud, critically acclaimed Canadian author Eric McCormack has written a masterpiece of literary Gothicism, a gripping, darkly imagined story about the nature of love in a world where menace hovers at every turn.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJun 23, 2017
    ISBN9781501949890
    Cloud

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    • 5/5
      This is another marvelous, digressive tale from Eric McCormack, who has become one of my favorite authors. As is a common theme in his work, the protagonist is a Scot who after a series of strange adventures finds himself in Canada. Along the way, he passes through Africa and South America. McCormack's obsessions are all here: old books, ships, doctors, coincidence, islands, odd sexual practices, strange cultures, and a host of quirky individuals, such as Doctor DuPont, whom we meet first in Africa, then later in the United States in very different circumstances. The plot, which somewhat connects the various sections, is a strange book discovered in Mexico, called "The Obsidian Cloud", which concerns a mysterious weather event in a Scottish village where the protagonist once lived and met the love of his life. But the research into the truth of that book and its unknown author is just part of the wonderful collection of stories McCormack manages to tell in this endlessly fascinating book. You should be able to tell early on if he is a writer for you. If he is, you'll be hooked and end up being a completist--something I'm well on my way to becoming.I listened to the audiobook, which was read extremely well by Robert Ian Mackenzie.
    • 4/5
      A good adventurous read...like dry ice and words. Definitely felt like an old man retelling his too, too incredible life story.
    • 3/5
      This is the story of Harry Steen, from his childhood in Glasgow, a failed love affair that shaped his life in Duncairn, a successful if not passionate marriage in Canada and his travels throughout the world for his business. This is my first novel by Eric McCormack and I have to say that it didn't grab me. I found the characters hard to relate to. And, I'm not sure what the author was trying to write about. There were lots of stories about helping others, gruesome experiments, and strange sex. Most of the book was entertaining, but I could never find a thread that held it together...other than the character of Harry, whom I couldn't relate to or really understand.