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Selected Shorts: Readers & Writers [Audiobook]

Posted By: IrGens
Selected Shorts: Readers & Writers [Audiobook]

Selected Shorts: Readers & Writers [Audiobook] by Evelyn Waugh, Molly Giles, Ray Bradbury, Italo Calvino, Adam Haslett
English | November 13, 2008 | ASIN: B001L7TYY4, ISBN: 1934033081 | M4B@64 kbps | 3 hrs 12 mins | 88 MB
Narrators: Tony Roberts, John Shea, Leonard Nimoy, Blair Brown, Rochelle Oliver, Isaiah Sheffer

Recorded live at 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 on public radio nationwide. More than 300,000 listeners tune in to this offering weekly to hear some of their favorite tales read aloud by distinguished actors.

A boon for booklovers, this audio set features funny, fantastical and poignant stories about people with unique and passionate connections to the written word.

Tony Roberts reads a hilarious Walter R. Brooks story about how Ed - a talking horse - became a voracious reader of adventure tales and mysteries. In a story by Italo Calvino, read by John Shea, a man tries to make the most of his beach holiday by reading and making love at the same time. Leonard Nimoy performs a dark, vintage Evelyn Waugh tickler about a stranded jungle explorer forced to read Dickens aloud. Plus more memorable stories by Ray Bradbury, Molly Giles and Adam Haslett, read by Rochelle Oliver, Blair Brown and Isaiah Sheffer.