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Selected Shorts: Fictions for Our Times: Listener Favorites Old & New (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story)

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These three-CD collections feature audiences' best-loved selections from National Public Radio's "Selected Shorts", an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors and recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. More than three hours of recordings in each collection capture the intimacy of live performance. Stories are alternately funny, sad, moving, and exciting and make a perfect accompaniment to daily activities such as driving, cooking, exercising, and relaxing. "Fictions for our Times: Listener Favourites Old and New" includes, among others, Thomas Meehan's "Yma Dream," read by Christine Baranski; Toni Cade Bambara's "Gorilla, My Love," read by Hattie Winston; Percival Everett's "The Fix," read by Isaiah Sheffer; Richard Bausch's "Valor," read by William Hurt; and Alice McDermott's "Enough," read by Kathleen Chalfant. The approximate running time is 214 minutes.

Language: English

Pages: 1

Format: Audio CD

Publisher: Symphony Space

Release: April 01, 2004

ISBN: 0971921806

ISBN 13: 9780971921801

Selected Shorts: Fictions for Our Times: Listener Favorites Old & New (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story)

3.8/5 ( ratings)

These three-CD collections feature audiences' best-loved selections from National Public Radio's "Selected Shorts", an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors and recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. More than three hours of recordings in each collection capture the intimacy of live performance. Stories are alternately funny, sad, moving, and exciting and make a perfect accompaniment to daily activities such as driving, cooking, exercising, and relaxing. "Fictions for our Times: Listener Favourites Old and New" includes, among others, Thomas Meehan's "Yma Dream," read by Christine Baranski; Toni Cade Bambara's "Gorilla, My Love," read by Hattie Winston; Percival Everett's "The Fix," read by Isaiah Sheffer; Richard Bausch's "Valor," read by William Hurt; and Alice McDermott's "Enough," read by Kathleen Chalfant. The approximate running time is 214 minutes.

Language: English

Pages: 1

Format: Audio CD

Publisher: Symphony Space

Release: April 01, 2004

ISBN: 0971921806

ISBN 13: 9780971921801

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