The age of desire [sound recording] / Jennie Fields.
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SoundPublisher number: SLD2788 | AudioGOPublication details: North Kingstown, RI : AudioGO, p2012.Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 11 sound discs (14 hr., 2 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0792789059
- 9780792789055
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Main Library | Audiobook | FICTION Fields Jen | Available | 33111006992693 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
They say that behind every great man is a woman. Behind Edith Wharton, there was Anna Bahlmann-her governess turned literary secretary, and her mothering, nuturing friend. When at the age of forty-five Edith falls passionately in love with a dashing, younger journalist, Morton Fullerton, and is at last opened to the world of the sensual, it threatens everything certain in her life-but especially her abiding friendship with Anna. As Edith's marriage crumbles, the women must face the fragility at the heart of all friendships. The Age of Desire takes us on a vivid journey through Wharton's early Gilded Age world: Paris with its glamorous literary salons and dark secret cafes, the Wharton's elegant house in Lenox, Massachusetts, and Henry James' manse in Rye, England. Edith's real letters and intimate diary entries are woven throughout the book. The Age of Desire brings to life one of literatures most beloved writers, whose own story was as complex and nuanced as that of any of the heroines she created.
"Sound Library"--Container.
Compact disc.
In container (17 cm.).
Title from container.
Narrated by Meredith Mitchell.
"A lush, involving novel set in the early years of the 20th century, The Age of Desire is the story of writer Edith Wharton's illicit affair and sexual awakening at the age of 45 with journalist Morton Fullerton. Her liaison impacted many lives, including Edith's well-meaning but feckless husband Teddy, and her loyal secretary and dearest friend, Anna Bahlmann. Set mostly in Paris, it recaptures an era of literary salons, chauffeured motorcars and veiled meetings in secret cafés, the devastating Paris Flood of 1910, and the dark beginnings of World War I" -- from author's web site.