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Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
- A Novel
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Rosalind Ashford, Geoffrey Cantor, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
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Paris in the 1920s: It is a city of intoxicating ambition, passion, art, and discontent, where louche jazz venues like the Chameleon Club draw expats, artists, libertines, and parvenus looking to indulge their true selves. It is at the Chameleon where the striking Lou Villars, an extraordinary athlete and scandalous cross-dressing lesbian, finds refuge among the club's loyal denizens, including the rising photographer Gabor Tsenyi, the socialite and art patron Baroness Lily de Rossignol, and the caustic American writer Lionel Maine.
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A Spectrum of Acceptable Truths
- By Mel on 05-08-14
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Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Rosalind Ashford, Geoffrey Cantor, Nicola Barber, Suzanne Toren, Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-22-14
- Language: English
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Cleopatra
- Her History, Her Myth
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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Francine Prose delves into ancient Greek and Roman literary sources, as well as modern representations of Cleopatra in art, theater, and film. She challenges the common narratives driven by orientalism and misogyny and offers a new interpretation of Cleopatra’s history from the lens of our own era.
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Cleopatra
- Her History, Her Myth
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Series: Ancient Lives
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 11-08-22
- Language: English
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At the End of Life
- True Stories About How We Die
- By: Lee Gutkind - editor, Francine Prose - introduction, Karen Wolk Feinstein - foreword
- Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix, Al Kessel
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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The modern healthcare system has become proficient at staving off death with aggressive interventions. And yet, eventually everyone dies - and although most Americans say they would prefer to die peacefully at home, more than half of all deaths take place in hospitals or health care facilities. At the End of Life tackles this conundrum head on. Featuring 22 compelling personal-medical narratives, the collection explores death, dying, and palliative care, and highlights current features, flaws, and advances in the healthcare system.
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Good listen, I cried on and off
- By steve hagan on 08-24-23
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At the End of Life
- True Stories About How We Die
- Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix, Al Kessel
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-25-18
- Language: English
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The Vixen
- A Novel
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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It’s 1953, and Simon Putnam, a recent Harvard graduate newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm, has entered a glittering world of three-martini lunches, exclusive literary parties, and old-money aristocrats in exquisitely tailored suits, a far cry from his loving, middle-class Jewish family in Coney Island.
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Perfectly paced for the period
- By Sydmace on 07-13-21
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The Vixen
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 06-29-21
- Language: English
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Peggy Guggenheim
- The Shock of the Modern
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Acclaimed best-selling author Francine Prose offers a listen of Guggenheim's life that will enthrall enthusiasts of 21st-century art as well as anyone interested in American and European culture and the interrelationships between them. The lively and insightful narrative follows Guggenheim through virtually every aspect of her extraordinary life, from her unique collecting habits and paradigm-changing discoveries to her celebrity friendships, failed marriages, and scandalous affairs.
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Good listen
- By Amazon Customer on 05-04-21
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Peggy Guggenheim
- The Shock of the Modern
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 04-14-16
- Language: English
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Reading Like a Writer
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Nanette Savard
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters and discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire listeners to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart.
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Practical, literate, generous
- By Gare on 04-13-08
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Reading Like a Writer
- Narrated by: Nanette Savard
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 04-03-07
- Language: English
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Blue Angel
- A Novel
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Zach Villa
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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It's been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative-writing program, has published a novel. It's been even longer since any of his students have shown promise. Enter Angela Argo, a pierced, tattooed student with a rare talent for writing. Angela is just the thing Swenson needs. Better yet, she wants his help. But, as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions....
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obvious and joyless
- By Jennreaves on 01-29-21
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Blue Angel
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Zach Villa
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 10-30-18
- Language: English
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Caravaggio
- Painter of Miracles
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed - street boys, prostitutes, the poor, the aged - was a profound and revolutionary innovation that left its mark on generations of artists. His insistence on painting from nature, on rendering the emotional truth of experience, whether religious or secular, makes him an artist who speaks across the centuries to our own time.
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Caravaggio
- Painter of Miracles
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 02-11-20
- Language: English
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Household Saints
- A Novel
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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The setting is New York's Little Italy in the 1950's - a community closely knit by gossip and tradition. This is the story of an extraordinary family, the Santangelos. There is Joseph, the butcher, who cheats in his shop and at pinochle, only to find the deck is stacked against him; his mother, Mrs. Santangelo, who sees the evil eye everywhere and who calls on her saints; and Catherine, his wife, whose determination to raise a modern daughter leads her to confront ancient questions.
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Household Saints
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 10-23-13
- Language: English
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What to Read and Why
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times best seller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic, and essayist celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers she admires above all others. In an age defined by hyper-connectivity and constant stimulation, Francine Prose makes a compelling case for the solitary act of reading and the great enjoyment it brings. Inspiring and illuminating, What to Read and Why includes selections culled from Prose’s previous essays, reviews, and introductions.
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Decent book, distracting narration
- By Pål on 08-31-20
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What to Read and Why
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 07-03-18
- Language: English
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A Changed Man
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Eric Conger
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
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One spring afternoon, Vincent Nolan, a young neo-Nazi walks into the office of a human rights foundation headed by Meyer Maslow, a charismatic Holocaust survivor. Vincent announces that he wants to make a radical change. But what is Maslow to make of this rough-looking stranger with Waffen SS tattoos who says that his mission is to save guys like him from becoming guys like him?
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A Changed Man is unpredictable
- By Loyd Phillips on 04-17-05
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A Changed Man
- Narrated by: Eric Conger
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 03-03-05
- Language: English
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Mister Monkey
- A Novel
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne, Nan McNamara
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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Mister Monkey - a screwball children's musical about a playfully larcenous pet chimpanzee - is the kind of family favorite that survives far past its prime. Margot, who plays the chimp's lawyer, knows the production is dreadful and bemoans the failure of her acting career. She's settled into the drudgery of playing a humiliating part - until the day she receives a mysterious letter from an anonymous admirer and later, in the middle of a performance, has a shocking encounter with Adam, the 12-year-old who plays the title role.
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Monkey Shines
- By David on 12-21-16
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Mister Monkey
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne, Nan McNamara
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-18-16
- Language: English
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1974
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Francine Prose
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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The first memoir from critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose, about the close relationship she developed with activist Anthony Russo, one of the men who leaked the Pentagon Papers--and the year when our country changed.
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1974
- Narrated by: Francine Prose
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 06-18-24
- Language: English
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Goldengrove
- A Novel
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Mamie Gummer
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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At the center of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, 13-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward understanding and clarity, falling into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her sister's enigmatic boyfriend.
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So-so
- By Browncoat on 04-09-20
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Goldengrove
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Mamie Gummer
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 07-05-16
- Language: English
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Judah the Pious
- A Novel
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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The Polish monarch has outlawed a portion of the Jewish funeral rite, and none of the community’s lawyers, judges, or scholars will come forward to defend the custom before the crown. Only one man dares challenge the sovereign: The spindly old Rabbi Eliezer of Rimanov, whose eccentric habits conceal the mind of a dreamer and the curiosity of a child. The rabbi is reduced to laughter at the sight of the king, for the country’s ruler is but a boy - and Rabbi Eliezer knows how to speak to youngsters.
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Judah the Pious
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-23-13
- Language: English
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Hangsaman
- By: Shirley Jackson, Francine Prose - foreword
- Narrated by: Rachel Hurd Wood
- Length: 7 hrs
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Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life, which will spread among nightmarish parties, poisonous college cliques and the manipulations of the intellectual men who surround her, as her identity gradually crumbles.
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Hangsaman
- Narrated by: Rachel Hurd Wood
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 10-08-20
- Language: English
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My New American Life
- A Novel
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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Lula, a 26 -year-old Albanian woman living surreptitiously in New York City on an expiring tourist visa, hopes to make a better life for herself in America. When she lands a job as caretaker to Zeke, a rebellious high school senior in suburban New Jersey, it seems that the security, comfort, and happiness of the American dream may finally be within reach. Her new boss, Mister Stanley, an idealistic college professor turned Wall Street executive, assumes that Lula is a destitute refugee of the Balkan wars.
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A refreshing, creative work of fiction
- By Cathy on 04-30-12
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My New American Life
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 04-26-11
- Language: English
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Guided Tours of Hell
- Novellas
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Kyle McCarley
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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In the title novella, a third-rate American playwright named Landau attends a literary conference in Prague, where an organized group excursion to a former concentration camp degenerates into a battle of wills and an exercise in egomania and public humiliation. Nina, the heroine of the second novella, "Three Pigs in Five Days," is sent to Paris to write an article for her lover's travel journal - a dizzying, erotic pilgrimage that forces her to see how sex has distorted her view of the world.
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Prefer Nina to Landau and either to Jiri and Leo
- By Kristin J. Johnson on 05-03-15
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Guided Tours of Hell
- Novellas
- Narrated by: Kyle McCarley
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 10-18-13
- Language: English
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Bigfoot Dreams
- A Novel
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Tara Ochs
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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Though she's written dispatches from across the globe - covering the Loch Ness monster, live dinosaurs, and the ever-enigmatic yeti - Vera Perl never leaves the offices of "This Week," a supermarket tabloid covering the universe's stranger side. Her reporting is done entirely inside her own head, and now she’s contemplating a Bigfoot exposé that will astonish even the most jaded conspiracy theorist. No one is better than Vera at imagining these weird, wild stories, because more than anything, she wants them to be true.
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Bigfoot Dreams
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Tara Ochs
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 10-25-13
- Language: English
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The Turning
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne, Grover Gardner, Amy Rubinate
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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Jack is spending the summer on a private island far from modern conveniences. No Wi-Fi, no cell service, no one else on the island but a housekeeper and the two very peculiar children in his care. The first time Jack sees the huge black mansion atop a windswept hill, he senses something cold, something more sinister than even the dark house itself. Soon, he feels terribly isolated and alone. Yet he is not alone. The house has visitors - peering in the windows, staring from across the shore. But why doesn't anyone else see them...? And what do they want?
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I'm not a "teen” but I really enjoyed this book
- By Allison McNeely on 10-13-12
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The Turning
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne, Grover Gardner, Amy Rubinate
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 09-25-12
- Language: English
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