Selected Shorts: Tales of Betrayal (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story)

Symphony Space

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9781934033029: Selected Shorts: Tales of Betrayal (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story)

ISBN 10: 1934033022 ISBN 13: 9781934033029

Publisher: Symphony Space, 2007

Recorded live at the Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City and at venues across the United States, these audio anthologies feature short stories from the Selected Shorts program that airs nationwide. More than 300,000 listeners tune in to this offering weekly to hear some of their favorite tales read aloud by an assortment of distinguished actors. Abraham prepares to slay Isaac; siblings fall in love with the same man; a Thai man hides his secret guilt from his best friend on draft selection day in each betrayal, characters make choices that define their lives and suffer consequences often dire or disquieting. Among this anthology’s features are Tessa Hadley’s "Mother’s Son" read by Shohreh Aghdashloo, Adam Haslett’s "Devotion" read by John Shea, Rattawut Lapcharoensap’s "Draft Day" read by B. D. Wong, and Galina Vromen’s "Sarah’s Story" read by Jane Curtin.

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About the Author:

Symphony Space is a performing arts center based in New York City that fosters artistically and culturally diverse performing arts, literary, and film programs that bring artists and audiences together in an atmosphere of exploration and intimacy. This organization reaches audiences throughout New York City, the wider metropolitan area, and—through distribution of programs via media such as radio, recordings, podcasts, and touring—the nation.

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From the Selected Shorts Public Radio series, the six well-crafted tales anthologized here range from the hilarious to the deeply moving. The readings vary as well. Shohreh Aghdashloo hoarsely struggles through a Welsh story in a thick Iranian accent. Comedians Anne Meara and Jane Curtin give delightful interpretations of irony-rich efforts by John Cheever (�The Worm in the Apple�) and Galina Vromen (�Sarah�s Story�), respectively. B.D. Wong, of M. BUTTERFLY fame, is weeping by the end of R. Lapcharoensap�s first-person account of �Draft Day� in Thailand. David Strathairn adeptly lays back John Biguenet�s disturbing and thought-provoking �I Am Not a Jew,� while John Shea does his usual lugubrious thing with the apparent �Devotion� between middle-aged siblings, as limned by Adam Haslett. A fine, albeit flawed, collection. Y.R. � AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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