(Photo: Seth McAllister) Between the Covers presents the final episodes of Last Seen (Vintage), Matt Cohen’s tragicomedy about two brothers and their relationship in life and death.
Alec and Harold Constantine have a very strong bond. When younger brother Harold dies, Alec is paralyzed with grief and regret.
In his search for understanding, Alec enters a very strange after-hours club called Club Elvis. There he meets his dead brother dancing to the music. Is Alec going insane?
Canadian actor R.H.Thompson narrates Alec’s desperate search through his memories for the answer to that and other questions.
Each episode of this Between The Covers reading is 15 to 16 minutes.
Episode seven: Alec escapes to Paris where he has a strange visitor.
Episode eight: Alec gets another visit, this one much closer to home.
Episode nine: Alec goes back to Club Elvis to meet his dead brother.
Episode 10: Harold has one more surprise for brother Alec.
Our next audio book is The Restoration of Emily (Dundurn). Author Kim Moritsugu uses acerbic wit to portray the challenges of a middle-aged architect and single mom in this sparkling story.
If you missed previous podcasts you can download them at Between the Covers podcasts.
If you’d like to listen to other Canadian books, check out the Hear A Reading page on the Between the Covers site. At the moment, you can listen to Richard B. Wright's tale of two sisters, Clara Callan (HarperFlamingo), which won the Governor General’s Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, as well as stories from Vincent Lam’s Scotiabank Giller Award-winning book, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures (Doubleday).
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