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Winner of AudioFile Magazine' s Earphones Award for Exceptional Audio Performance Hilarity, suspense, and high drama are offered up in the mix of tales of travel to locales familiar and exotic found on this three-CD compilation from National Public Radio's Selected Shorts. An award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction, the selections are read by distinguished stage and screen actors and recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. Join a father and son on a sailing voyage that goes dangerously awry or retreat to a country estate with the most eccentric hosts imaginable. Featured are stories written by Nadine Gordimer, Joan Didion, and Ring Lardner, among others, and read by such actors as Joanne Woodward and Bradley Whitford.Product Identifiers
PublisherSymphony Space
ISBN-101934033006
ISBN-139781934033005
eBay Product ID (ePID)57196616
Product Key Features
Book TitleTravel Tales
TopicAnthologies (Multiple Authors), Short Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year2007
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorSymphony Space Staff
Book SeriesSelected Shorts: a Celebration of the Short Story Ser.
FormatCompact Disc
Dimensions
Item Height0.7in
Item Length5in
Item Width5.5in
Item Weight8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"A welcome breath of pecularly American writing - unremarkable lives are presented with insight." The Observer February 2009, "They aren't adventure travel by any means, but are light and funny and speak of little quirks and amusing occurrences." -Written Road, "They aren't adventure travel by any means, but are light and funny and speak of little quirks and amusing occurrences." --Written Road, "They aren't adventure travel by any means, but are light and funny and speak of little quirks and amusing occurrences." "-- Written Road", "And we can add some delicious nonfiction to our picnic spread, from the Selected Shorts CD series." -- "All Things Considered," National Public Radio, "And we can add some delicious nonfiction to our picnic spread, from the Selected Shorts CD series." -All Things Considered,National Public Radio, "They aren't adventure travel by any means, but are light and funny and speak of little quirks and amusing occurrences." —Written Road, "They aren't adventure travel by any means, but are light and funny and speak of little quirks and amusing occurrences." --Written Road
Number of Volumes3 Vols.
Number of Pages1 Pages