Florence of Arabia
9 hrs. 30 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Christopher Buckley
Author
Christopher Buckley
Narrator
Evgeny Perepelitsa
Narrator
Evgeny Perepelitsa
Description
Christopher Taylor Buckley is an American satirist writer and journalist. World success came to him with the novel “Thank You for Smoking”—a sharp and, in some ways, unsettling satire of the standards prevailing in the world of American advertising and PR. Buckley knows this environment well: since the age of twenty-five he has headed the editorial offices of major magazines such as “Esquire” and “Forbes Life”; for many years he was a speechwriter for the White House. Buckley’s latest novel, “Florence of Arabia,” is a virtuoso parody of the spy novel. Even in the very title the author alludes to the story of T. E. Lawrence of Arabia—an Oxford graduate, brave officer, and, probably, a spy—who led the Arab Revolt during World War I, inspired by Britain. The heroine of Buckley’s novel is an energetic Italian woman, Florence, who on behalf of the U.S. government fights for the rights of Arab women and social stability in the Middle East. But everything turns out differently.
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