The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis
Requirements: MP3 Player, 64 kbps, Duration: 7 hrs 52 mins, 196 MB
Overview: True to the darkly satirical trademark tone of all Bret Easton Ellis’ novels, this tale coasts on the voices of Therese Plummer and Christian Rummel, narrating California’s disaffected youth with the biting nonchalance that only New York actors like these could provide. The Informers is a series of linked vignettes depicting the alternatingly bland and violent hardships of the stereotypically rich, numb, and dumb in 1980s Los Angeles, each chapter told from the perspective of a different and often anonymous person. That anonymity is the key to Plummer and Rummel’s masterful telling. The majority of these characters talk through their surgically altered noses and draw out their surfer vowels in classic West Coast style, largely indistinguishable from one another by voice, just as they are by their actions.
There is a bisexual love-quadrangle where everyone is looking to trade up for a wealthier connection and a bigger apartment. Rummel voices the female portions of dialogue with surprising ease. A father desperately forces his son into a bonding vacation in Hawaii where he fails to make conversation and fails to get laid. Rummel’s rendering of both father and son’s drunken slurring is tragicomic in the extreme. A college student takes the train cross-country to watch her father marry a much younger health nut and aspiring newscaster who owns 20 ripped Flashdance sweatshirts. Plummer’s judgmental inflections are perfectly timed in this very rare treat, as Ellis does not often so deeply develop female characters. A junkie rock star lists an assortment of beatings, rapes, and near-miss overdoses he floats through with groupies at the Tokyo Hilton. Rummel’s snappy and snappish accent for the put upon British manager of the band is a major bright spot in this long string of Californians.
Genre: Audiobooks, General Fiction, Contemporary, Literary, Short Stories
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