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Title: A Certain Age
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Beatriz Williams
Narrator: Mia Barron, Barbara Goodson, Adrienne Rusk
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-28-16
Publisher: HarperAudio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 137 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
The best-selling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring '20s brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively listenable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm.
As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs. Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue and Southampton, Long Island, has done the unthinkable: She's fallen in love with her young paramour, Captain Octavian Rofrano, a handsome aviator and hero of the Great War. An intense and deeply honorable man, Octavian is devoted to the beautiful socialite of a certain age and wants to marry her. While times are changing and she does adore the Boy, divorce for a woman of Theresa's wealth and social standing is out of the question, and there is no need; she has an understanding with Sylvo, her generous and well-respected philanderer husband.
But their relationship subtly shifts when her bachelor brother, Ox, decides to tie the knot with the sweet younger daughter of a newly wealthy inventor. Engaging a longstanding family tradition, Theresa enlists the Boy to act as her brother's cavalier, presenting the family's diamond rose ring to Ox's intended, Miss Sophie Fortescue - and to check in to the background of the little-known Fortescue family. When Octavian meets Sophie, he falls under the spell of the pretty ingénue, even as he uncovers a shocking family secret. As the love triangle of Theresa, Octavian, and Sophie progresses, it transforms into a saga of divided loyalties, dangerous revelations, and surprising twists that will lead to a shocking transgression...and eventually force Theresa to make a bittersweet choice.
Full of the glamour, wit, and delicious twists that are the hallmarks of Beatriz Williams' fiction, and alternating between Sophie's spirited voice and Theresa's vibrant timbre, A Certain Age is a beguiling reinterpretation of Richard Strauss' comic opera Der Rosenkavalier, set against the sweeping decadence of Gatsby's New York.
Members Reviews:
Boring, Slow and Terrible Narration
What would have made A Certain Age better?
Anything. I LOVE Ms. Williams, but I am unsure where this book came from. It is far from her normal work and honestly I can't even believe she wrote it. Her other books are filled with smart whit, can be laugh out loud funny and sad all at the same time, and her signature shock and awe the whole way through leading up to a great end, is what I love most about her. This book was none of that. Super anticlimactic, boring and the girl's voice who read for Sophie was TERRIBLE!
Would you ever listen to anything by Beatriz Williams again?
I hope to if she gets back into her rhythm.
What didnt you like about the narratorss performance?
The woman who read Tereasa was fine, and same with the newspaper woman, but Sophie's narrator tried to be Daisy-esque (from Gatsby) I am guessing and it did not work out well. Her blasé tone made it to where you couldn't detect any emotion in her words. This in turn, evoked no emotion for me and made me extremely bored and unable to get interested in the novel.
You didnt love this book...
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Title: A Certain Age
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Beatriz Williams
Narrator: Mia Barron, Barbara Goodson, Adrienne Rusk
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-28-16
Publisher: HarperAudio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 137 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
The best-selling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring '20s brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively listenable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm.
As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs. Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue and Southampton, Long Island, has done the unthinkable: She's fallen in love with her young paramour, Captain Octavian Rofrano, a handsome aviator and hero of the Great War. An intense and deeply honorable man, Octavian is devoted to the beautiful socialite of a certain age and wants to marry her. While times are changing and she does adore the Boy, divorce for a woman of Theresa's wealth and social standing is out of the question, and there is no need; she has an understanding with Sylvo, her generous and well-respected philanderer husband.
But their relationship subtly shifts when her bachelor brother, Ox, decides to tie the knot with the sweet younger daughter of a newly wealthy inventor. Engaging a longstanding family tradition, Theresa enlists the Boy to act as her brother's cavalier, presenting the family's diamond rose ring to Ox's intended, Miss Sophie Fortescue - and to check in to the background of the little-known Fortescue family. When Octavian meets Sophie, he falls under the spell of the pretty ingénue, even as he uncovers a shocking family secret. As the love triangle of Theresa, Octavian, and Sophie progresses, it transforms into a saga of divided loyalties, dangerous revelations, and surprising twists that will lead to a shocking transgression...and eventually force Theresa to make a bittersweet choice.
Full of the glamour, wit, and delicious twists that are the hallmarks of Beatriz Williams' fiction, and alternating between Sophie's spirited voice and Theresa's vibrant timbre, A Certain Age is a beguiling reinterpretation of Richard Strauss' comic opera Der Rosenkavalier, set against the sweeping decadence of Gatsby's New York.
Members Reviews:
Boring, Slow and Terrible Narration
What would have made A Certain Age better?
Anything. I LOVE Ms. Williams, but I am unsure where this book came from. It is far from her normal work and honestly I can't even believe she wrote it. Her other books are filled with smart whit, can be laugh out loud funny and sad all at the same time, and her signature shock and awe the whole way through leading up to a great end, is what I love most about her. This book was none of that. Super anticlimactic, boring and the girl's voice who read for Sophie was TERRIBLE!
Would you ever listen to anything by Beatriz Williams again?
I hope to if she gets back into her rhythm.
What didnt you like about the narratorss performance?
The woman who read Tereasa was fine, and same with the newspaper woman, but Sophie's narrator tried to be Daisy-esque (from Gatsby) I am guessing and it did not work out well. Her blasé tone made it to where you couldn't detect any emotion in her words. This in turn, evoked no emotion for me and made me extremely bored and unable to get interested in the novel.
You didnt love this book...