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Selected Shorts: Readers and Writers
#UC3392
$28.00
An ideal literary companion for driving, flying, or just resting your eyes, Selected Shorts: Readers and Writers offers audio recordings of seven short stories in which books and literature play a pivotal role in plot or character development. In "The Adventure of a Reader," Italo Calvino's vacationing protagonist attempts (unsuccessfully) to avoid the physical seduction of a fellow bather in favor of the intellectual allure of a novel. A lonely soldier shares a heartening encounter with his childhood librarian in Ray Bradbury's "Exchange." The other stories by Walter R. Brooks, Adam Haslett, Evelyn Waugh, Molly Giles, and Audrey Niffenegger are by turns comical, poignant, or a little bit of both. This three-disc set features acclaimed actors such as Tony Roberts and Leonard Nimoy reading the compact masterpieces at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York. The live audience's audible gasps and guffaws add to your listening pleasure!
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