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Title: Being There
Author: Jerzy Kosinski
Narrator: Dustin Hoffman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-13-12
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1504 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine)
Audie Award Nominee, Best Solo Narration, 2013
Jerzy Kosinskis clever parable of a naive man thrust into the modern world is more pointed now than ever. Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man, The Graduate), perhaps best known for his portrayals of vulnerable characters and antiheroes, gives an understated and exemplary performance of this satiric look at the unreality of American media culture.
Chance, the enigmatic gardener, becomes Chauncey Gardiner after getting hit by a limo belonging to a Wall Street tycoon. The whirlwind that follows brings Chance to his new status of political policy advisor and possible vice presidential candidate. His garden-variety political responses, inspired by television, become heralded as visionary, and he is soon a media icon due to his unknown background and vague, yet appealing, conversational nature. Being There was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, starring Peter Sellers as Chance, in 1979.
Critic Reviews:
"Dustin Hoffman's performance of this spare and provocative novel is a revelation. The story is surreal (though certainly not difficult and certainly highly amusing); to deliver it, what is needed is not pacing or vocal pyrotechnics but a thorough, thoughtful understanding of the text and the restraint to perform only exactly what is there." (AudioFile)
