From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. It's wondrous to listen to a fine reading of a long-loved novel. Leishman makes masterly use of volume, timbre and resonance to distinguish between characters and draw us into the emotional swings and vibrations of the internal musings of each. She creates not a new but a more nuanced reading, following the interwoven streams of consciousness in a British English that lends authenticity to each voice. Leishman swims smoothly through Woolf's sentences that ebb and flow with numerous parenthetical thoughts and fresh images. These passages are interspersed with quick, sharp, simple sentences that gain strength in contrast. Leishman also draws our attention to Woolf's poetic prose: her rhythms and images, her use of hard consonants in monosyllabic words in counterpoint to long, soft, dreamy words and phrases. To The Lighthouse plays back and forth between telescopic and microscopic views of nature and human nature. Mrs. Ramsey is both trapped in and pleased in her roles as wife, mother and hostess. The introspective Mr. Ramsey is consumed with his legacy of long-since-published abstract philosophy. This is a book that cannot be read—or heard—too often. (Jan.)
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From AudioFile
There is luxury in listening to these mighty English actors retelling the story of Mrs. Ramsay and her family on summer vacation on the Isle of Skye. Vanessa Redgrave is the loving mother and charming hostess everyone wants to visit. Juliet Stevenson adds her sensitive voice as the painter Lily Briscoe to the idyllic rhythm of long summer days by the ocean and the beach. As this is a production of the BBC, we are treated to hearing sounds and voices come from several microphones and far distances, a technique that gives the piece a three-dimensional shape. We, too, yearn for the trip to the lighthouse that Mrs. Ramsay promises her youngest child. J.P. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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