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Written by Ron Hansen - Audio book performed Janet McTeer - Abridged Fiction - CASSETTES

Publisher, Harper Audio (September 1999)

Booklist June 1, 1999 says:
"Rooted in historical fact, Hansen's riveting portrait of the century's most malevolent figure blossoms in the realm of fiction, a true flower of evil. The story begins in 1908. Hitler is 19, and his niece, Geli, has just been born to his half-sister, Angela. A manipulative, hate-filled, lazy, and pretentious bohemian who fails to get into art school, Hitler demands money from his struggling family. The visit ends disastrously, and Hitler and Angela have no contact until, widowed and poor, she tracks him down five years later, Geli at her side. The future fuhrer--a scrawny lice-infested anti-Semitic rabble-rouser with a taste for the occult and the pornographic--enjoys the company of his pretty little niece and, after a triumphant spell in jail launches his political career, summons Angela and Geli to his luxurious new home to work as his servants. Now a vain and ruthless lederhosen-wearing pasha, Hitler accelerates his ascent to power, collecting his menagerie of grotesque henchmen (all chillingly portrayed) and expressing his increasingly perverse adoration for his now beautiful niece. Bright, pragmatic, caustic, and emboldened by her erotic power, Geli seriously misjudges Hitler's capacity for sexual deviance and violence. The exact circumstances of her death are still unclear, but Hansen's imagined version feels right, and as his suspenseful novel reaches its shattering conclusion, the monster Geli called Uncle Alf is poised to unleash his insanity on a world every bit as complacent and vulnerable as his deluded niece. Hansen's insightful, brilliantly interpretative, and frightening novel does more to illuminate the welter of evil that fueled Hitler than a dozen biographies." --Donna Seaman, Copyright© 1999, American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title