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Liars and Saints
Contributor(s): Meloy, Maile (Author), Potter, Kirsten (Read by)
ISBN: 1441756817     ISBN-13: 9781441756817
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
OUR PRICE:   $26.96  
Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats
Published: September 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.5" (0.22 lbs)
 
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Publisher Description:
With her first novel, Liars and Saints, award-winning author Maile Meloy more than delivers on the promise of her highly acclaimed debut story collection, Half in Love. This richly textured novel tells a story of sex and longing, love and loss, and of the deceit that can lie at the heart of family relationships. Set in California, Liars and Saints follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present. In a family driven as much by jealousy and propriety as by love, an unspoken tradition of deceit is passed from generation to generation. When tragedy shatters their precarious domestic lives, it takes astonishing courage and compassion to bring them back together. By turns funny and disturbing, irreverent and profound, Liars and Saints is a masterful display of Maile Meloy's prodigious gifts and of her penetrating insight into an extraordinary American family and the nature of human love.

Contributor Bio(s): Potter, Kirsten: -

Kirsten Potter, who graduated with highest honors from Boston University, has narrated numerous audiobooks and has performed for television and in theaters across the country. She has won several awards, including eleven AudioFile Earphones Awards, and been a three-time finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. Her work has been recognized by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and by AudioFile magazine, among many others.

Meloy, Maile: -

Maile Meloy's short-story collection, Half in Love, was a New York Times Notable Book in 2002. She won the 2001 Aga Khan Prize for best story in the Paris Review. Her work has also appeared in the New Yorker and Best New American Voices and has been nominated for a National Magazine Award. She lives in California.