ttdz_000_022 Audio Zykov Fortuate Lives.By Robb Forman Dew. Unabridged Narration by Alexandra O’Karma. – A Recorded Book. 7 tapes.

ttdz_000_022 Audio Zykov  Fortuate Lives.By Robb Forman Dew. Unabridged Narration by Alexandra O’Karma.  – A Recorded Book. 7 tapes.

Fortunate Lives

by Robb Forman Dew

UNABRIDGED

FORTUNATE LIVES

by Robb Forman Dew Narrated by Alexandra O’Karma

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у the best-selling author of Dale Loves Sophie to Death, comes Fortunate Lives, described by the L.A. Times as “a novel that heightens our senses, and awakens us to the fragility of even the most cozy and familiar lives.”

The story’s narrator—Dinah Howells—is a “forty-something” woman who lives with her husband and two children in a quiet university town in New England where her husband is a professor. Dinah lives a kind of charmed existence—her friends are witty and talented, her husband intrinsically decent, her children bright and compassionate. Their lovely, orderly home, much like the family itself, has achieved over the years a kind of balanced symmetry and placid

But beneath the surface ru disturbing undercurrents. Thi summer before Dinah and N eldest son, David, will be lea’ Harvard, and his approachinj from the family circle has m< increasingly distant—and in estimation—almost willfulh with most of his inscrutable ment directed towards her.

David’s imminent leave brings into sharper focus anoth loss, the death of their seco Toby, six years before in a tr accident.

As this fortunate family t increasingly fragmented, and t rituals more strained and ar they are brought to the brink aster by the dramatic entry of a named Netta Breckinridge, an sive junior professor who in herself, first into Dinah’s kitch into David’s heart, threater family with losses for which dangerously unprepared.

"Melancholy and grace% story at once universal and p specific. ”—Chicago Tribune

“Fortunate Lives is a si character-driven story, but si plotted as well, like a Jane novel with a contemporary, sex —Washington Post Book Woi 92429 (7 cassettes/10 hours; ©1992 by Robb Forman Dew ©1992 by Recorded Books, Inc.

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Cover art by Spirit, a graphic desigi Inc.; ©1992 by Recorded Books, In

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