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Illumination Night
- Auteur(s): Alice Hoffman
- Narrateur(s): Suzanne Toren
- Durée: 7 h et 48 min
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Illumination Night follows the lives of a young blond giant who is as beautiful as he is frightening; an old woman at the end of her life whose last mission is to save her granddaughter's soul; a family torn apart by a wife's fears and a husband's unrealized desires; and the high school girl who comes to Martha's Vineyard against her will, who steals husbands and cars, and who will bring everyone together in a web of yearning, sin, and ultimate redemption.
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Really struggled to finish the book!
- Écrit par Deborah le 2020-03-11
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Illumination Night
- Narrateur(s): Suzanne Toren
- Durée: 7 h et 48 min
- Date de publication: 2014-07-22
- Langue: Anglais
- Beginning on the night of the Grand Illumination, a festival of lanterns held each summer on Martha's Vineyard, this novel is a modern chronicle of a marriage....
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We Were the Mulvaneys
- Auteur(s): Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrateur(s): Scott Shina
- Durée: 22 h et 48 min
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Judd is the youngest of the four Mulvaney children - three boys and a girl - on their parents’ lush farm in upstate New York. In his childhood, Judd is swept along by the sheer energy of the Mulvaneys and their wealth of beloved family stories. But now, 30 years old, Judd looks back through his memories to tell the secrets that eventually ripped apart the fabric of his storybook family.
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Great story - with problems
- Écrit par Lesley Durham le 2020-03-06
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We Were the Mulvaneys
- Narrateur(s): Scott Shina
- Durée: 22 h et 48 min
- Date de publication: 2010-10-20
- Langue: Anglais
- Now 30 years old, Judd looks back through his memories to tell the secrets that eventually ripped apart the fabric of his storybook family....
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All the Forgivenesses
- Auteur(s): Elizabeth Hardinger
- Narrateur(s): Stephanie Einstein
- Durée: 12 h et 27 min
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Growing up on their hardscrabble farm in rural Kentucky, 15-year-old Albertina "Bertie" Winslow has learned a lot from her mama, Polly. She knows how to lance a boil, make a pie crust, butcher a pig, and tend to every chore that needs doing. What she doesn't know, but is forced to reckon with all too soon, is how to look after children as a mother should. When Polly succumbs to a long illness, Bertie takes on responsibility for her four younger siblings and their dissolute, unreliable daddy.
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All the Forgivenesses
- Narrateur(s): Stephanie Einstein
- Durée: 12 h et 27 min
- Date de publication: 2019-08-27
- Langue: Anglais
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Growing up on their hardscrabble farm in rural Kentucky, 15-year-old Albertina "Bertie" Winslow has learned a lot from her mama, Polly. She knows how to lance a boil, make a pie crust, butcher a pig, and tend to every chore that needs doing....
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The Secret Garden
- Auteur(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Narrateur(s): Johanna Ward
- Durée: 8 h et 10 min
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Mary Lennox, a spoiled, ill-tempered, and unhealthy child, comes to live with her reclusive uncle in Misselthwaite Manor after the death of her parents. With the help of a robin, Mary finds the door to a secret garden, neglected and hidden for years. When she decides to restore the garden in secret, the story becomes a charming journey into the places of the heart, where faith restores health, flowers refresh the spirit, and the magic of the garden brings happiness to Mary.
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The reading was so good!
- Écrit par Bonnie D le 2024-03-28
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The Secret Garden
- Narrateur(s): Johanna Ward
- Durée: 8 h et 10 min
- Date de publication: 2008-08-18
- Langue: Anglais
- Mary Lennox, an ill-tempered child, comes to live with her uncle in Misselthwaite Manor after the death of her parents. There, she finds the door to a secret garden, neglected for years...
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The Making of Us
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Lisa Jewell
- Narrateur(s): Helen Duff
- Durée: 13 h et 55 min
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Lydia, Dean, and Robyn live very different lives, but each of them, independently, has always felt that something was missing. What they don't know is that a letter is about to arrive that will turn their lives upside down. It's a letter containing a secret - one that will bind them together and show them what love and family and friendship really mean.
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loved this story
- Écrit par GCY Newell le 2019-01-08
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The Making of Us
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Helen Duff
- Durée: 13 h et 55 min
- Date de publication: 2018-06-05
- Langue: Anglais
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Lydia, Dean, and Robyn live very different lives, but each of them, independently, has always felt that something was missing. What they don't know is that a letter is about to arrive that will turn their lives upside down....
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The Story Girl
- Auteur(s): L. M. Montgomery
- Narrateur(s): Grace Conlin
- Durée: 8 h et 58 min
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Sara Stanley is only 14, but she can weave tales that are impossible to resist. In the charming town of Carlisle, children and grown-ups alike flock from miles around to hear her spellbinding narratives. And when Bev King and his younger brother, Felix, arrive for the summer, they, too, are captivated by the Story Girl.
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A great story, fairly well told
- Écrit par Sheena Henderson le 2023-08-20
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The Story Girl
- Narrateur(s): Grace Conlin
- Série: The King Family, Livre 1
- Durée: 8 h et 58 min
- Date de publication: 2006-11-06
- Langue: Anglais
- Sara Stanley is only 14, but she can weave tales that are impossible to resist....
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Olive Kitteridge
- Fiction
- Auteur(s): Elizabeth Strout
- Narrateur(s): Kimberly Farr
- Durée: 12 h et 2 min
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At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive’s own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and her husband, Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse.
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Boring
- Écrit par KF le 2020-01-29
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Olive Kitteridge
- Fiction
- Narrateur(s): Kimberly Farr
- Série: Olive Kitteridge, Livre 1
- Durée: 12 h et 2 min
- Date de publication: 2019-04-02
- Langue: Anglais
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At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her....
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
- Auteur(s): Anne Tyler
- Narrateur(s): Elizabeth Rodgers
- Durée: 10 h et 51 min
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Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore's Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the older son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet, clumsy Ezra, Pearl's favorite, who never stops yearning for the perfect family that could never be his own. Now Pearl and her three grown children have gathered....
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I had trouble finishing the book
- Écrit par Michelle Owen le 2024-09-22
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
- Narrateur(s): Elizabeth Rodgers
- Durée: 10 h et 51 min
- Date de publication: 2021-01-05
- Langue: Anglais
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Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore's Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone....
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If the Creek Don't Rise
- Auteur(s): Leah Weiss
- Narrateur(s): Tom Stechschulte, Kate Forbes
- Durée: 9 h et 30 min
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In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie Blue is only the latest girl to face a dead-end future at the mercy of a dangerous drunk. She's been married to Roy Tupkin for 15 days, and she knows now that she should have listened to the folks who said he was trouble. But when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for everyone in town, Sadie begins to think there might be more to life than being Roy's wife.
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If the Creek Don't Rise
- Narrateur(s): Tom Stechschulte, Kate Forbes
- Durée: 9 h et 30 min
- Date de publication: 2017-08-22
- Langue: Anglais
- In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie Blue is only the latest girl to face a dead-end future at the mercy of a dangerous drunk....
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Cutting for Stone
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Abraham Verghese
- Narrateur(s): Sunil Malhotra
- Durée: 23 h et 54 min
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Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.
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one of the best books I've ever listened to
- Écrit par Gloria E Thompson le 2019-09-23
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Cutting for Stone
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Sunil Malhotra
- Durée: 23 h et 54 min
- Date de publication: 2009-02-03
- Langue: Anglais
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Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon....
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Chronicles of Avonlea
- Auteur(s): L.M. Montgomery
- Narrateur(s): Grace Conlin
- Durée: 6 h et 39 min
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The first thing every listener will want to know is whether Anne Shirley appears in these stories of Avonlea and Spencervale. She certainly does. As a matter of fact, page one starts off in this manner: "Anne Shirley was curled up on the window seat of Theodora Dix's sitting room one Saturday evening, looking dreamily afar at some fair starland beyond the hills of sunset. Anne was visiting for a fortnight of her vacation."
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Chronicles of Avonlea
- Narrateur(s): Grace Conlin
- Série: Anne of Green Gables
- Durée: 6 h et 39 min
- Date de publication: 2005-01-07
- Langue: Anglais
- The first thing every listener will want to know is whether Anne Shirley appears in these stories of Avonlea and Spencervale....
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The House We Grew Up In
- Auteur(s): Lisa Jewell
- Narrateur(s): Karina Fernandez
- Durée: 13 h et 25 min
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Years after an Easter weekend tragedy devastates a family, they return to the house they grew up in to unearth the many secrets hidden within the nooks and crannies of home.
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Multiple lenses made this book a winner
- Écrit par Matt Willman le 2020-06-08
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The House We Grew Up In
- Narrateur(s): Karina Fernandez
- Durée: 13 h et 25 min
- Date de publication: 2019-09-17
- Langue: Anglais
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Years after an Easter weekend tragedy devastates a family, they return to the house they grew up in to unearth the many secrets hidden within the nooks and crannies of home....
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Hardacre
- Hardacre Family Saga Series, Book 1
- Auteur(s): CL Skelton
- Narrateur(s): Justine Eyre
- Durée: 17 h et 15 min
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Hardacre is the sweeping rags to riches story of the Hardacre family. This dramatic family saga follows generations of the Hardacres from Victorian times to the 1950s. Set against the backdrop of major historical events, Hardacre traces the family's humble beginnings to their position of great wealth. Sam Hardacre makes a tough yet honest living as a fish gutter. But he has ambitions for a life far removed from the harsh existence on the quays of the north English coast. Through drive and determination he builds a business empire and amasses a fortune.
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Hardacre
- Hardacre Family Saga Series, Book 1
- Narrateur(s): Justine Eyre
- Série: Hardacre Family Saga Series, Livre 1
- Durée: 17 h et 15 min
- Date de publication: 2018-10-02
- Langue: Anglais
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Hardacre is the sweeping rags to riches story of the Hardacre family. This dramatic family saga follows generations of the Hardacres from Victorian times to the 1950s. Hardacre traces the family's humble beginnings to their position of great wealth....
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The Dutch House
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Ann Patchett
- Narrateur(s): Tom Hanks
- Durée: 9 h et 53 min
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At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother.
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My heart could just burst!!!!
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2019-10-14
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The Dutch House
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Tom Hanks
- Durée: 9 h et 53 min
- Date de publication: 2019-09-24
- Langue: Anglais
- Narrated by Tom Hanks, The Dutch House is a moving story that explores the bond between two siblings and the house of their childhood.
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Open House
- Auteur(s): Elizabeth Berg
- Narrateur(s): Becky Baker
- Durée: 6 h et 18 min
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In this superb novel - an Oprah Book Club selection - a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening up her house to strangers and her heart to the simple miracle of possibility.
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Open House
- Narrateur(s): Becky Baker
- Durée: 6 h et 18 min
- Date de publication: 2001-12-07
- Langue: Anglais
- Samantha Morrow's husband has left her, and now she must strive to reconstruct a life for herself and her 11-year-old son...
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Nothing to See Here
- Auteur(s): Kevin Wilson
- Narrateur(s): Marin Ireland
- Durée: 6 h et 40 min
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Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school. But then, Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal, and they’ve barely spoken since. Until now, when Lillian gets a letter from Madison pleading for her help. Madison’s twin stepkids are moving in with her family, and she wants Lillian to be their caretaker. However, there’s a catch: The twins spontaneously combust when they get agitated, flames igniting from their skin in a startling but beautiful way.
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Engaging story and AMAZING Narrator!
- Écrit par Aoife G le 2020-05-07
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Nothing to See Here
- Narrateur(s): Marin Ireland
- Durée: 6 h et 40 min
- Date de publication: 2019-10-29
- Langue: Anglais
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Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school. But then, Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal, and they’ve barely spoken since. Until now....
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The Summer's End
- Lowcountry Summer Trilogy, Book 3
- Auteur(s): Mary Alice Monroe
- Narrateur(s): Mary Alice Monroe
- Durée: 12 h et 12 min
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It is summer's end, and Sea Breeze, the family's beloved estate on Sullivan's Island, must be sold. It is an emotional time of transition as Mamaw and the three sisters each must face loss and find a new place in the world.
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Lovely conclusion
- Écrit par Susan Parsons le 2023-04-21
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The Summer's End
- Lowcountry Summer Trilogy, Book 3
- Narrateur(s): Mary Alice Monroe
- Série: Lowcountry Summer, Livre 3
- Durée: 12 h et 12 min
- Date de publication: 2015-05-19
- Langue: Anglais
- It is summer's end, and Sea Breeze, the family's beloved estate on Sullivan's Island, must be sold. It is an emotional time of transition....
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Annabel
- Auteur(s): Kathleen Winter
- Narrateur(s): Tandy Cronyn
- Durée: 11 h et 24 min
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Kathleen Winter’s poignant debut novel was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. In it, Winter explores society’s views of gender identity through the eyes of a child born with male and female sex organs. At their doctor’s urging, the Blakes decide to raise their child as a boy, Wayne, giving him hormones to suppress his feminine physical traits. But after discovering the secret about his body, Wayne decides to stop taking his medication and lets his body develop naturally.
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Unforgettable
- Écrit par Vera le 2023-09-17
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Annabel
- Narrateur(s): Tandy Cronyn
- Durée: 11 h et 24 min
- Date de publication: 2011-10-04
- Langue: Anglais
- Kathleen Winter’s poignant debut novel was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize....
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The Home for Unwanted Girls
- Auteur(s): Joanna Goodman
- Narrateur(s): Saskia Maarleveld
- Durée: 9 h et 58 min
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In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility - much like Maggie Hughes' parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don't include marriage to the poor French boy on the next farm over. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel Phénix. When she becomes pregnant at 15, her parents force her to give baby Elodie up for adoption and get her life "back on track".
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Being Picky
- Écrit par Susan le 2019-09-03
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The Home for Unwanted Girls
- Narrateur(s): Saskia Maarleveld
- Durée: 9 h et 58 min
- Date de publication: 2018-04-17
- Langue: Anglais
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Philomena meets The Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit - the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other....
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Birds of America
- Stories
- Auteur(s): Lorrie Moore
- Narrateur(s): Natasha Soudek
- Durée: 10 h et 10 min
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From the opening story, "Willing" - about a second-rate movie actress in her 30s who has moved back to Chicago, where she makes a seedy motel room her home and becomes involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea of who she is as a human being - Birds of America unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of portraits of the unhinged, the lost, the unsettled of our America. Lorrie Moore explores the personal and the universal, the idiosyncratic and the mundane, with all the wit, brio, and verve that have made her one of the best storytellers of our time.
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I can't finish this book
- Écrit par Minna Koistinen le 2021-07-15
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Birds of America
- Stories
- Narrateur(s): Natasha Soudek
- Durée: 10 h et 10 min
- Date de publication: 2019-06-25
- Langue: Anglais
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In what may be her most stunning book yet, Lorrie Moore explores the personal and the universal, the idiosyncratic and the mundane, with all the wit, brio, and verve that have made her one of the best storytellers of our time....
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