The Stars at Noon

By: Denis Johnson

Narrated by: Will Patton

A literary thriller and love story set during the Nicaraguan revolution, from the National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. • Now the basis for a major motion picture

Set in Nicaragua in 1984, The Stars at Noon is a story of passion, fear, and betrayal told in the voice of an American woman whose mission in Central America is as shadowy as her surroundings. Is she a reporter for an American magazine, as she sometimes claims, or a contact person for the anti-war group Eyes of Peace? And who is the rough English businessman she begins an affair with? The two foreigners become entangled in sinister plots and ever-widening webs of corruption, until a desperate attempt to escape the country brings their relationship to a crisis point.

With his customary narrative brilliance, award-winning writer Denis Johnson brings a hellish landscape of moral ambiguity vividly to life.

Critic reviews

"A daring novel. . . . Johnson is one of our most inventive, unpredictable novelists." —The New York Times Book Review

"Ambitious and haunting. . . . It is as if one is reading a Graham Greene novel through a surreal haze. . . . Utterly brilliant." —Philadelphia Inquirer

"Powerful. . . . Johnson reminds us that political ideals have little to do with the shifting alliances and rhetoric by which we define our allies and enemies." —San Francisco Chronicle

Best American Author with his Best Reader

Ok, just go pay Will Patton to do every one of Johnson’s books, please. Bake him a cake and bring him a bag of money and a forehead kiss from Whoever he wants. Patton brings the sentences—some of the just plain best ever written—alive in the best way. The humor, the poetry, the horror, the those utterly Denis Johnson swerves into abrupt Wonder at being in the world. Patton brings Johnson to my ear like tingly news that my middle school crush likes me back. I’ve been listening to audiobooks regularly, psychotically, near daily since 2008, and this is one of the best author / narrator pairs ever. Just please, audiobooks gods, go pay this man Will to do them all. If Cormac Mccarthy’s older works are all coming out on audible, it’s scandalous and downright unAmerican to skip Johnson. His sentences are his own, a poetry it might take you a sec to hear, but once you do, byyeeee being able to stand mediocrity and formulaic styles forever after !!!
Bless you Denis
Bless you Will

Why get a male narrator for this?!

Johnson is my favorite writer. Patton is my favorite narrator. But why the publisher hired a male narrator for a first person story with a female protagonist is beyond me.

I feel bad not giving this five stars but it's just a ridiculous decision on their part.

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Aburrido pésimo narrador insoportable 0 estrellas
NO LO ESCUCHÉN el narrador pésima voz es hombre narrando a una mujer además su voz muy molesta