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The Enormous Radio
- The John Cheever Audio Collection
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 09-22-09
- Language: English
- Publisher: HarperAudio
Regular price: $1.13
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Publisher's Summary
Here is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates – with unequaled grace and tenderness – the deepest feelings we have.
As Cheever writes in his preface, "These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat."
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- Evelyn
- Alabama, United States
- 10-30-13
Great Story, Good Performance
This story is great but the performance was just a little "flat" which left me feeling like I could not justify giving it an overall 5 star rating.
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