The Voyage Out
“Juliet Stevenson’s narration is both compelling and soothing…There is a certain fluid quality to the text that mirrors water, and Stevenson’s calm demeanor couples nicely with it. Yet she hardly puts the listener to sleep. Her vocal characterizations realistically capture each character, and she creates a strong contrast between the soft, musical female voices and the gruff, dominant male voices. Stevenson masterfully navigates Woolf’s prose as she and the listener embark on this literary journey.”
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The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf’s haunting tale about a naïve young woman’s sea voyage from London to a small resort on the South American coast.
In symbolic, lyrical, and intoxicating prose, her outward journey begins to mirror her internal voyage into adulthood as she searches for her personal identity, grapples with love, and learns how to face life, intellectually and emotionally. Its wit and exquisiteness and its profound depth and insight into humanity will capture the imagination of the listener.
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