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• “While it is the sheer physicality of Mr. Hurt's performance that impresses most—he totters about the stage with the squeaky-shoed grace of the music-hall clowns that Beckett loved—you will be no less stunned by the sound of his creaky, rusty voice, which suggests a hermit who never has occasion to speak a word aloud for months at a time.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The End Of the Line

• “Then he would say his name aloud and remind her a man did not choose his name.”

  Fictionaut: Where Alligators Sleep

• “My mother kept the home fires burning, though Thailand, like Vietnam, is so miserably hot that just saying the phrase aloud makes me sweaty.”

  Simon & Schuster: Beginner’s Grace

• “Saying her name aloud brought everything back in a rush.”

  Simon & Schuster: Game For Anything

• “My mother had never even said the word aloud to me, always just calling it “the facility.””

  Simon & Schuster: Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour

• “She was still out, although no one had said a word about her empty chair at the dinner table, as if saying her name aloud would make her absence more real.”

  Simon & Schuster: Blue Nude

• “He whispered her name aloud in the dark room, and closed his eyes, trying to imagine what the rest of his life would be without her in it.”

  Simon & Schuster: Voices Carry

• “Just to say her name aloud brought a smile to his lips, so he said it again as he held her photo aloft, as if to pay her tribute.”

  Simon & Schuster: Voices Carry

• “She read the title aloud, hardly listening to herself, anxious to bury the subject of the horror she'd come onto.”

  Time and Again

• “I handed him the cassette and he read the title aloud and laughed.”

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