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Title: The Darkness of Wallis Simpson
Author: Rose Tremain
Narrator: Gareth Armstrong, Jilly Bond
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-30-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, ended her life as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone - friend, foe or journalist - to visit her in her Paris flat.
Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction. Her thesis is that Wallis, gaga and bed-ridden, has forgotten the king who gave up an empire for love of her.
The other stories in this magnificent collection range over a variety of themes, equally original and unexpected. An East German border guard, redundant after the Berlin Wall comes down in 1989, imagines that he might still have a purpose in life: He tries to reach Russia by bicycling across the hostile wastes of Poland. A jilted man gets his revenge. A baby grows wings. A character in an Impressionist painting escapes from his 'frame' - or does he? And there's a Christmas story set in a seedy hotel...
Members Reviews:
a bit misleading title but a good book
I thought I was buying a bio of Wallis Simpson -- Not! but the book is a terrific collection of short stories. Well worth buying. Really thought provoking stories. Love it! and would recommend...
Interesting Collection
The first story, about Wallis Simpson, is so poignant that it will make your heart ache. The rest of the short stories were varied and well done but not nearly as interesting.
One Star
Avoid. A very depressing collection of short stories.
The Darkness of Wallis Simpson
This book was very dark and hard to get into and understand. It was not one of my favorite reads. I did not like it.
condition of book was good
the book itself, was not very good, very little on Wallis Spencer Simpson there are many boos on the subject and this was not one of them
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Title: The Darkness of Wallis Simpson
Author: Rose Tremain
Narrator: Gareth Armstrong, Jilly Bond
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-30-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, ended her life as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone - friend, foe or journalist - to visit her in her Paris flat.
Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction. Her thesis is that Wallis, gaga and bed-ridden, has forgotten the king who gave up an empire for love of her.
The other stories in this magnificent collection range over a variety of themes, equally original and unexpected. An East German border guard, redundant after the Berlin Wall comes down in 1989, imagines that he might still have a purpose in life: He tries to reach Russia by bicycling across the hostile wastes of Poland. A jilted man gets his revenge. A baby grows wings. A character in an Impressionist painting escapes from his 'frame' - or does he? And there's a Christmas story set in a seedy hotel...
Members Reviews:
a bit misleading title but a good book
I thought I was buying a bio of Wallis Simpson -- Not! but the book is a terrific collection of short stories. Well worth buying. Really thought provoking stories. Love it! and would recommend...
Interesting Collection
The first story, about Wallis Simpson, is so poignant that it will make your heart ache. The rest of the short stories were varied and well done but not nearly as interesting.
One Star
Avoid. A very depressing collection of short stories.
The Darkness of Wallis Simpson
This book was very dark and hard to get into and understand. It was not one of my favorite reads. I did not like it.
condition of book was good
the book itself, was not very good, very little on Wallis Spencer Simpson there are many boos on the subject and this was not one of them