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Narrated by:
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David de Vries
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By:
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Jonathan Carroll
About this listen
Glass Soup is a loose sequel to Jonathan Carroll’s earlier work, White Apples. The story continues to explore themes of life, death, love, and the metaphysical battle between good and evil.
The novel follows Vincent Ettrich and his lover, Isabelle Neukor, who were central to the plot of White Apples. Having died, Vincent is once again alive, recently resurrected for some mysterious reason. Isabelle, pregnant with their child, discovers that their unborn son is destined to play a crucial role in the cosmic struggle between chaos and order.
The stakes are high as the forces of chaos, represented by a group of powerful and malevolent beings, seek to manipulate the unborn child for their own ends. The narrative weaves through various dimensions and states of existence, blurring the line between the living and the dead. Characters move freely between life and the afterlife, where reality itself seems to be constantly shifting.
In the afterlife, which is depicted as a surreal, dreamlike landscape, Vincent and Isabelle must navigate a series of strange and dangerous encounters. They meet bizarre and memorable characters, each with their own role in the unfolding cosmic drama. Among them is a particularly sinister figure who seeks to disrupt the balance of the universe and plunge everything into chaos.
As the story progresses, the boundary between dreams and reality becomes increasingly porous and dangerous for the couple while they must fight with everything they have to protect their child.
"An ambitious retelling of the cosmic struggle between good and evil… make Carroll’s latest a delicious dish… This is a marvelous comic feast."—Publishers Weekly
©2005 Jonathan Carroll. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Critic reviews
“An ambitious retelling of the cosmic struggle between good and evil... make Carrol's latest a delicious dish . . . . This is a marvelous comic feast.”―Publishers Weekly, on Glass Soup
“The plausibly surreal Glass Soup provides more proof Carroll is as marvelous a writer as you'll find in this life or any other.”―Cinefantastique
“Welcome to another one of Carroll's weird, wondrous worlds…”―Time Out New York on Glass Soup
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