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American Appetites
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 10-14-10
- Language: English
- Publisher: Recorded Books
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $31.49
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Publisher's Summary
Joyce Carol Oates has been hailed as America’s foremost woman of letters. She is at her best in American Appetites, weaving a masterful tale of personal entanglements, fatal decisions, and courtroom drama.
Ian and Glynnis McCullough, intelligent, professional, and successful, are the envy of their affluent friends. But suddenly, an unexpected plea for help and a cancelled check send their tranquility spinning out of control.
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- Jason
- Charlotte, NC, United States
- 12-06-12
Another Great Book By Joyce Carol Oates
'American Appetites' is a very entertaining book. Joyce Carol Oates has never disappointed me, and this book is as good as any other book I have listened to by this author (not quite as good as ‘We Were The Mulvaneys,’ but pretty close).
I have listened to four books written by Oates, and they have all had their slow moments. This book is no different (the reason I gave it four out of five). The main characters in this book are elitist, and Oates spends roughly an hour giving the reader a thorough background of their elitist lives. This background story building is pretty dry, but don’t give up on this book – it turns into a really good story pretty quickly after this slow start. Like I stated in the beginning, Oates always seems to have rough moments in her story telling, but they all become really good books by the end of the tale. I’ve never listened to a Joyce Carol Oates book I did not like by the end.
I am usually pretty neutral as far as narrators go, but Barbara Caruso is perfect for this book. She sounds just like the sort of person these characters would invite to one of their elitist intellectual dinner parties. Audible could not have picked a better narrator for this book.
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- Jules
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- 04-07-18
Loved this title
This is the first Joyce Carol Oates I’ve read. It was wonderful. Well developed characters. Prose just fell from reader, Barbara Caruso’s lips. Great build in suspense to an event never guessed. The last quarter of the book meandered a bit.
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- Peter Hoffman
- Orange, CA
- 01-25-16
It was pretty great.
I listened to it over three days.
The title is pretty funny in how food is (over-) emphasized as a staple throughout the novel and an integral part in the character's lives, however traditional as the women cooked and the men ate it.
There is a very dramatic course of events and this points to the narrator, who is excellent. She pulls the story forward, at times conjuring up Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction and overall commands the text brilliantly.