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Title: Summary of Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler | Includes Analysis

Author: Instaread

Narrator: Tamara Ryan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-16

Publisher: Instaread

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Summary of Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler | Includes Analysis

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Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler is a coming-of-age story set in New York City. Over the course of a year, 22-year-old Tess, a girl straight out of small-town middle America, arrives in New York City, creates a niche for herself in the glitzy, fast-paced Manhattan restaurant scene, falls in love, and has her heart broken.

Smart, pretty Tess arrives in her car in New York in June 2006, leaving behind her lonely childhood and conservative small town. She rents a room in Williamsburg and sets out to find a job in Manhattan. Tess gets an interview at one of the most renowned restaurants in the city, located in Union Square. In the interview, her honesty, frankness, and good looks charm Howard, the general manager. So Tess gets a job as a backwaiter, or a food and drink runner and table busser.

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Title: The Haunting of Hip Hop

Author: Bertice Berry

Narrator: J. D. Jackson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-08

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Blackboard best-selling author Bertice Berry delivers an entertaining cautionary tale. Everything hip-hop music producer "Freedom" Hudson touches turns to gold. But when he buys a haunted brownstone in Harlem, he gets an earful from a group of ghosts. One of the spirits, an African drummer whose life was destroyed by slavery, has a warning for Freedom: We've passed the drum to you - now use it to send the right message.

©2001 Bertice Berry; (P)2003 Recorded Books LLC

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Title: Twelve Times Blessed

Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard

Narrator: Robin Miles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-18-04

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 45 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

It's been eight years since the death of her husband, leaving her to raise their son on her own. Both her son and her small business are thriving, and True's life is full. Coming up on 43 makes True realize that there is an empty space in her life that friends and family cannot fill. She feels her youth and beauty slipping away, and the possibility for romance has never seemed more remote.

But everything changes the moment True and her beloved assistant, Isabelle, slide into a snow-filled ditch on the drive home. Saved by a young man she met earlier at the restaurant, True comes face to face with the opportunity to let love back into her life, that is, if she can overcome her own fears, and if these two spirits can find a way to tame each other's wild hearts and curb each other's supremely independent natures.

Critic Reviews:

"Mitchard's characters are appealing." (Booklist)

"Narrator Robin Miles delivers the story in straightforward fashion and creates various voices and accents from Cape Cod to New Orleans to color the dialogue." (AudioFile)

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Title: Empire of the Sun

Author: J. G. Ballard

Narrator: Steven Pacey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-09-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the Guardian fiction prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

From the master of dystopia, comes his heartrending story of a British boys four-year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Based on J. G. Ballards own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boys life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai - a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Rooted as it is in the authors own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the 20th century will be not only remembered but judged.

J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 best seller, Empire of the Sun, won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was later filmed by Steven Spielberg. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. J. G. Ballard died in 2009.

Critic Reviews:

An extraordinary achievement (Angela Carter)

A remarkable journey into the mind of a growing boy horror and humanity are blended into a unique and unforgettable fiction (Sunday Times)

Remarkable form, content and style fuse with complete success one of the great war novels of the 20th century (William Boyd)

Gripping and remarkable I have never read a novel which gave me a stronger sense of the blind helplessness of war unforgettable (Observer)

A brilliant fusion of history, autobiography and imaginative speculation. An incredible literary achievement and almost intolerably moving (Anthony Burgess)

An immensely powerful novel in a class of its own for sheer imaginative force. (Daily Telegraph)

Gripping and remarkable I have never read a novel which gave me a stronger sense of the blind helplessness of war unforgettable. (Observer)

Ranks with the greatest British writing on the Second World War. (The Times)

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Title: A Disorder Peculiar to the Country

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Ken Kalfus

Narrator: James Boles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-15-07

Publisher: Audio Evolution

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 30 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

She misses her flight and he's late for work, but on that grim day, in a devastated city, among millions seized by fear and grief, each thinks the other is dead, and each is secretly, shamefully, gloriously happy. As their bitter divorce is further complicated by anthrax scares, suicide bombs, foreign wars, and the stock-market collapse, they suffer, in ways unexpectedly personal and increasingly ludicrous, the many strange ravages of our time.

In this astonishing black comedy, Kalfus suggests how our nation's public calamities have encroached upon our most private illusions.

Critic Reviews:

"My inner idealist hopes Kalfus' novel joins the ranks of Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 on the required reading lists." (Philadelphia Magazine)

"Kalfus' new novel [is] like a fever dream of recent events....Through the interbleeding of public and private story lines and his lampooning approach, Kalfus [is] freeing the way we think about September 11....If hyperbole can be weaponized anywhere in literature, it is here." (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

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