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Goodnight, Beautiful Women
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Eva Kaminski
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 06-07-16
- Language: English
- Publisher: Recorded Books
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
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An electrifying debut by sensational new literary talent Anna Noyes, Goodnight, Beautiful Women surveys the residents of small New England coastal towns in tales that probe boundaries of familial intimacy, coming-of-age sexuality, desirous girlhood, and lost love.
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A woman watches her husband throw one by one their earthly possessions into the local quarry before vanishing himself; two girls from very different social classes find themselves deep in the throes of a punishing affair; a motherless teenager is sexually awakened in the aftermath of a local trauma; and a woman's guilt from a childhood lie about her intellectually disabled cousin reverberates into her married years. Dark and brilliant, rhythmic and lucid, Goodnight, Beautiful Women marks the arrival of a fearless and unique new young voice in American fiction.
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