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    The Man Who Died Twice
    The Man Who Died Twice
    The Man Who Died Twice
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Man Who Died Twice

    Written by Loren Robinson

    Narrated by Gene Engene

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Captain Ben Morgan had served with the 8th Air Force in World War II. At home he had a wife and three young children. Three more missions and he could go home. But a bombing run in his B-24 over Hamburg changed his life forever. Shot down by German fire, he was reported killed in action, but a German doctor saved his life and rebuilt his face. His wife, Jenny, waited five years for his hoped-for return, then married George Albright. When Bens’s brother Dale received his phone call, telling him he was alive, Dale told him his wife had remarried. Ben had to choose between reclaiming his family or leave things as they were, and he could approach her without being recognized. He discovered Jenny had adjusted, and her children knew only George as their father. Which way would he choose? The answer was to affect many lives for many years to come.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion
    Release dateDec 15, 2007
    ISBN9781596079557
    The Man Who Died Twice

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      The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1925. The narrator of the poetic novel bumps into an old acquaintance, Fernando Nash, playing in a Salvation Army band in NYC. Nash had once been a promising young composer who cracked under the jealous scorn and derision of his peers. He descended into drunkenness and/or drug abuse. Now near the end of his life he has found God. Much of the poem is Nash telling his life story to the narrator, chronicling his pain, his degradation and final realizations.Early in the poem, he is cursing himself:"You insufficient phoenixThat has to bake at last in his own ashes --You kicked out, half-hatched bird of paradiseThat had to die before you broke your shell --Who cares what you would be if you had flown?"A rather tragic saga of a failed artist, but one who clings to the belief that he had it once:"Once for an hour my cup was fullWith wine that not a hundred if a score,Have tasted that are told in history."And the narrator agrees, seeing in him: "the ruin of a potential world shaker."