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Title: Leaving Home
Author: Anita Brookner
Narrator: Joanna David
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-30-15
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
When cautious Emma Roberts goes to France to carry out research into 17th-century garden design, she finds a reliable diversion from her studies in her unlikely new friend Francoise Desnoyers, in whose beautiful house she is welcomed as a guest. She is not too dazzled to ignore the tensions that exist between Francoise and her formidable mother, or between Mme. Desnoyers and her other guests.
London recedes into the background as life in France becomes more significant in every respect. It is not until the horrifying episode that puts an end to this fascination that Emma is reconciled to her duller but safer life at home and to the compromises that she comes to accept.
Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her 24th, Strangers, in 2009. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.
Critic Reviews:
"Enthralling...so beautifully observed...as captivating as any thriller. (Marie Claire)
Spare and devastating, powerful. Brookner is an unflinching novelist who writes beautifully and fearlessly. (Independent) Elegiac...its magnificent final sentence is among the most moving of Brooknerian conclusions. (New Statesman)
Clever and elegant. (Sunday Times)
Brookner is brilliant...readers will not be disappointed. Her women are very real, more recognizable and more human than any obviously loveable character could hope to be. (Sunday Herald)
So well done - so carefully is the novel wrought - that reading it offers deep and enduring pleasure. (Scotsman)
Members Reviews:
PRAIRIE HUMOR
Garrison Keillor is a prairie humorist from Minnesota. He speaks about the mythical town of Lake Woebegone and the inhabitants where " ... all the children are above average. " For many years he has hosted THE PRAIRIE HOME companion on public radio. He will be retiring this year.
My wife and I find his radio program and his style of humor outrageously funny. I suggest that you tune in to his radio program and listen to it. If you enjoy the show: BUY HIS BOOKS!
Leaving Home, Coming Home
Life in a small town. I feel as though Garrison Keillor must have lived here in my small town. His wit and humor and kindness permeate each and every character. There is pathos, irony, heartbreak. I could write the same stories, but I would have to leave town! How do you do that Garrison? It's a gentle read, one that I hated to come to an end. In this crazy, pressure cooker bombed world, it was a comfort. Thank you!
Another great collection
I've noticed that Garrison loves Christmas, Halloween, sex, and death. They're all covered in this book. Very entertaining
KINDLE VERSION PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is an excellent follow-up to Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon Days. If possible, it is even more sweet-natured and addictive than its predecessor. Lake Wobegon Days finally became available for Kindle only a short time ago and I devoured it. Having not read it for several years, it was like welcoming an old friend back home. The story is not complete, however, until Leaving Home also becomes available for Kindle. Sooooooo....PLEASE Amazon, Mr.
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Title: Leaving Home
Author: Anita Brookner
Narrator: Joanna David
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-30-15
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
When cautious Emma Roberts goes to France to carry out research into 17th-century garden design, she finds a reliable diversion from her studies in her unlikely new friend Francoise Desnoyers, in whose beautiful house she is welcomed as a guest. She is not too dazzled to ignore the tensions that exist between Francoise and her formidable mother, or between Mme. Desnoyers and her other guests.
London recedes into the background as life in France becomes more significant in every respect. It is not until the horrifying episode that puts an end to this fascination that Emma is reconciled to her duller but safer life at home and to the compromises that she comes to accept.
Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her 24th, Strangers, in 2009. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.
Critic Reviews:
"Enthralling...so beautifully observed...as captivating as any thriller. (Marie Claire)
Spare and devastating, powerful. Brookner is an unflinching novelist who writes beautifully and fearlessly. (Independent) Elegiac...its magnificent final sentence is among the most moving of Brooknerian conclusions. (New Statesman)
Clever and elegant. (Sunday Times)
Brookner is brilliant...readers will not be disappointed. Her women are very real, more recognizable and more human than any obviously loveable character could hope to be. (Sunday Herald)
So well done - so carefully is the novel wrought - that reading it offers deep and enduring pleasure. (Scotsman)
Members Reviews:
PRAIRIE HUMOR
Garrison Keillor is a prairie humorist from Minnesota. He speaks about the mythical town of Lake Woebegone and the inhabitants where " ... all the children are above average. " For many years he has hosted THE PRAIRIE HOME companion on public radio. He will be retiring this year.
My wife and I find his radio program and his style of humor outrageously funny. I suggest that you tune in to his radio program and listen to it. If you enjoy the show: BUY HIS BOOKS!
Leaving Home, Coming Home
Life in a small town. I feel as though Garrison Keillor must have lived here in my small town. His wit and humor and kindness permeate each and every character. There is pathos, irony, heartbreak. I could write the same stories, but I would have to leave town! How do you do that Garrison? It's a gentle read, one that I hated to come to an end. In this crazy, pressure cooker bombed world, it was a comfort. Thank you!
Another great collection
I've noticed that Garrison loves Christmas, Halloween, sex, and death. They're all covered in this book. Very entertaining
KINDLE VERSION PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is an excellent follow-up to Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon Days. If possible, it is even more sweet-natured and addictive than its predecessor. Lake Wobegon Days finally became available for Kindle only a short time ago and I devoured it. Having not read it for several years, it was like welcoming an old friend back home. The story is not complete, however, until Leaving Home also becomes available for Kindle. Sooooooo....PLEASE Amazon, Mr.