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14 Aug, 2006
Relevant as Ever. . .
3 of 3 found this helpful First published in 1973, Jong’s revolutionary coming of age satire changed the face of women’s literature forever. Not only was it unabashedly and enthusiastically sexual, but it was also funny, approachable and wise, providing an affirmative female credo for generations of women whose values and self-image had been shaped almost entirely by what men thought they were all about. Writer Isadora White Wing, just shy of 30 and surprised and disappointed that her marriage to her psychiatrist husband has turned static and unfulfilling, runs off with a British analyst she meets at a Vienna conference and believes to be her soulmate. The idyll goes awry. In seeking, however, a man who will complete her, she learns instead that she is already whole and that this truth is more liberating than any romantic adventure could ever be. Reader Hope Davis makes a credible and personable Isadora and handles assorted foreign accents with ease. An interview follows the novel in which Jong discusses its inspiration and creation as well as the impact of the book’s thirty-year history. A timeless classic.
15 Apr, 2007
Unabridged Audiobook Edition
Styron’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece flits back and forth across time and space from war-torn Poland and the Nazi death camps to rural Virginia and the Flatbush area of Brooklyn, examining, through the lives of its three principal characters, the seeds of racial and religious intolerance in even its most benign and comic manifestations. One of the most important novels of the past century to look absolute evil in the face, "Sophie’s Choice" is also quite approachable, relying far more upon humor, irony and sentiment than upon politics to amplify its theme. It is narrated in retrospect by Stingo, then a naïve 22-year old Southern virgin with literary (and libidinous) ambitions, and it recounts his life-altering friendship over the summer of 1947 with Sophie, a beautiful Polish Catholic Auschwitz survivor, and her mercurial Jewish lover, Nathan.
William Hope’s performance is exceptional. A Canadian himself, his assorted Southern, European and Brooklyn accents do strike an occasional false note, but this is more than compensated for by his pacing and his uncanny ability to get inside of the psyche of every character and to reveal each one as a complex, unique individual. Strong sexual content.
29 Mar, 2007
Audio Edition
Once the toast of the New York intellectual scene, Dorothy Parker is remembered today primarily for a handful of witty epigrams and acerbic one-liners which have been quoted so frequently that they have lost much of their sting. Parker had, however, an enormous and richly varied literary output. Her keen eye and sharp tongue are much in evidence in this collection of some of her stories and poetry, which she compiled herself in 1944. Though her typical tone is wry and typical theme, the inconstancy of the human heart, Parker also had a strong moral sensibility. Several tales contrasting the banality of the idle rich with the solidity of the struggling working-class poor, touch us with their sadness.
Many of these selections are very short. Reader Lorna Raver performs each one brilliantly with a new voice and a fresh perspective. If she’s sometimes over the top, it's because so many of Parker’s characters, magnificent in their tunnel-visioned obtuseness, are too. The only thing that mars this exceptional production is that Blackstone has failed to include an index. Anyone hoping to listen to or revisit a specific piece will have to work very hard to find it.