![]() ![]() ![]() Or that his habit of rolling one sentence into the next without pause sometimes irks. Never mind that there’s a curious hokeyness to his aural take on The Dutch House, a historical epic about a brother and sister and the childhood Pennsylvania home from which they are banished. ![]() There are loads of celebrity narrators on Audible – Claire Danes, Reese Witherspoon, Ian McKellen – but it is Hanks, an actor associated with some of cinema’s most iconic characters, who requires the biggest imaginative leap. You can hear the recently quarantined A-lister on Audible narrating Ann Patchett’s monumental The Dutch House in ways laconic, nuanced and ever-so-slightly smug. Tom Hanks, you suspect, was that boy down the front whose hand would shoot straight up whenever the teacher called for volunteers. There are quiet kids, then there are the show-offs who love to read aloud in class. ![]()
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