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Frances and Bernard Lib/E
Contributor(s): Bauer, Carlene (Author), Brazil, Angela (Read by), Thorne, Stephen R. (Read by)
ISBN: 0792791169     ISBN-13: 9780792791164
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $49.46  
Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats
Published: February 2013
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical - General
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.2" W x 7.3" (0.75 lbs)
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1950's
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
Bernard Elliot, a poet, and Frances Reardon, a fiction writer, meet at a writers' colony during the summer of 1957 and begin a friendship and correspondence. Bernard, well-born and Harvard-educated, is gregarious, reckless, and passionate; Frances, the precocious daughter of a middle-class Irish family, is circumspect, wry, and more than a little judgmental. What starts as an exploration of faith eventually becomes a romance, a development complicated by Bernard's fall into manic depression and Frances' struggle to decide whether she is strong enough to weather the illness with him for the long term.

The novel is anchored by two deeply imagined, fully inhabited characters who give voice to a love story that is as emotionally powerful as it is intellectually spirited.

Contributor Bio(s): Bauer, Carlene: -

Carlene Bauer is the author of the memoir Not That Kind of Girl, described as soulful by Walter Kirn in Elle and approaching the greatness of Cantwell in the New York Post. She has written for the likes of n +1, Slate, Salon, and the New York Times.

Brazil, Angela: -

Angela Brazil is an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator and a professional actor who is proud to be a long-standing member of the Resident Acting Company at Trinity Repertory Company. She also teaches at the Brown/Trinity Conservatory.

Thorne, Stephen R.: -

Stephen R. Thorne, winner of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards for narration, is a professional actor and member of the resident acting company at Providence's esteemed Trinity Repertory Company, where he has played Hamlet, Henry V, and Tom Joad.