Written By : Ann Patchett
Narrated By : Ann Patchett
Harper Collins US
Duration : 8 hours 30 minutes
Type : Women Autobiography
Download Price : $18.95
The author of Bel Canto -- winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Orange Prize and long-running New York Times bestseller -- turns to nonfiction in a moving chronicle of her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy.
What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when that person is not your lover, but your best friend? In her frank and startlingly intimate first work of nonfiction, Truth & Beauty, Ann Patchett shines light on the little-explored world of women's friendships and shows us what it means to stand together.
Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and after enrolling in the Iowa Writer's Workshop began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. In her critically acclaimed memoir, Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy wrote about the first half of her life. In Truth & Beauty, the story isn't Lucy's life or Ann's life but the parts of their lives they shared together. This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans 20 years, from the long cold winters of the Midwest to surgical wards to book parties in New York. Through love, fame, drugs and despair, this is what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined.
This is a tender, brutal book about loving the person we cannot save. It is about loyalty and about being lifted up by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest.
ISBN13
Here are some more great audiobook titles you may be interested in ...
Written By : Alan Bennett
Narrated By : Alan Bennett
BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Duration : 2 hours 30 minutes
Type : Biographical Autobiography British Biographical
Download Price : $13.49
|
Written By : Major Dick Winters with Colonel Cole C. Kingseed
Narrated By : Tom Weiner
Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 10 hours
Type : Biography
Download Price : $19.95
The immortalized Band of Brothers suffered huge casualties while liberating Europe, an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Dick Winters was their commander, and only he was present from the ... See full description... |
Written By : Alan Bennett
Narrated By : Alan Bennett
BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Duration : 2 hours 35 minutes
Type : Autobiography Biographical Biographical
Download Price : $13.49
Alan Bennett's diaries from 1997-2004 are an erudite collection of witty yet poignant recollections told In his own unique voice... See full description... |
Written By : Laurie Lisle
Narrated By : Grace Conlin
Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 14 hours 30 minutes
Type : Biography Arts & Drama
Download Price : $26.95
Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most original painters America has ever produced, left a remarkable legacy when she died. Her bold, brilliant canvasses had a stunning, profound, and lasting influence ... See full description... |
Do you own a website? Would you like to promote audio books specifically customized to your site(s) and earn generous commissions on ALL sales? Then go here for more details on becoming an AudioBookOne affiliate partner today!
|