• Songs in Ordinary Time

  • By: Mary McGarry Morris
  • Narrated by: Sandra Burr
  • Length: 27 hrs and 56 mins
  • Unabridged Audiobook
  • Release date: 07-08-08
  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Brilliance Audio
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3.3 (74 ratings)

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Publisher's Summary

Songs in Ordinary Time is set in the summer of 1960 - the last of quiet times and America's innocence. It centers on Marie Fermoyle, a strong but vulnerable woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for the dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, 17 - involved with a troubled young priest; Norm, 16 - hotheaded and idealistic; and Benjy, 12 - isolated and misunderstood, and so desperate for his mother's happiness that he hides the deadly truth only he knows about Duvall.Among a fascinating cast of characters, we meet the children's alcoholic father, Sam Fermoyle, now living with his senile mother and embittered sister; Sam's meek brother-in-law, who makes anonymous "love" calls from the bathroom of his ailing appliance store; and the Klubock family, who - in complete contrast to the Fermoyles - live an orderly life in the perfect house next door.
©2008 Mary McGarry Morris; (P)2008 Brilliance Audio
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1 out of 5 stars
By Amazon Customer on 03-26-09

Don't waste your time.

I was really disappointed in this book. Everyone in this town is either crazy or delusional. It just seemed totally unrealistic. There were too many different story lines and none of them had an ending. If this story was a shirt, it would fall apart because of all of the loose ends. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone.

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1 out of 5 stars
By Diane Soucy on 10-26-08

An annoying waste of time

I kept listening, thinking something good or resonable would happen. But no. Just hours of low life, grim, crazy people getting into bad situations, then worse ones.

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11 of 11 people found this review helpful

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