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Oprah Book Club

• 04.26.08
  Cry, the Beloved Country (Unabridged)   Audiobooks, Oprah Book Club (0)

  If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! This is the most distinguished novel that has come out of South Africa in the 20th century, and it is one of the most important novels that has appeared anywhere in modern times. Cry, the Beloved Country is […]

• 04.26.08
  Ellen Foster   Audiobooks, Oprah Book Club (0)

  “When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy.”So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons’ first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize […]

• 04.26.08
  Open House (Unabridged)   Audiobooks, Oprah Book Club (0)

  
  
• 04.26.08
  Stones from the River   Audiobooks, Oprah Book Club (0)

  Trudi Montag is a Zwerg - a dwarf - short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share, from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he’s a girl, to […]

• 04.26.08
  Tara Road (Unabridged)   Audiobooks, Oprah Book Club (0)

  Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband, Danny, and their two children. She fully believed she was happily married, right up until the day Danny told her he was leaving her to be with his young, pregnant girlfriend. By a chance phone call, Ria meets Marilyn, a woman from New […]

• 04.26.08
  The Corrections   Audiobooks, Oprah Book Club (0)

  After almost 50 years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson’s disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family […]

• 04.26.08
  The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Unabridged)   Audiobooks, Oprah Book Club (0)

  Carson McCullers was all of 23 when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her “the greatest prose writer that the South [has] produced.” The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter tells an unforgettable tale of […]

• 04.26.08
  The Sound and the Fury (Unabridged)   Audiobooks, Oprah Book Club (0)

  First published in 1929, Faulkner created his “heart’s darling”, the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers: the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin, and the monstrous Jason.
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  Author: William Faulkner

  Publisher: Random House Audio

  ISBN: 0-7393-2535-3

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• 04.26.08
  We Were the Mulvaneys   Audiobooks, Oprah Book Club (0)

  The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet: a hardworking father, a loving mother, three fine sons, and a bright, pretty daughter. They are confident in their love for each other and their position in the rural community of Mt. Ephraim, New York. But something happens on Valentine’s Day, 1976 - an […]