Colony

Siddons, Anne Rivers

ISBN 10: 1559945931 ISBN 13: 9781559945936

Publisher: HarperAudio, 1992

Synopsis

Looking back on her ninety years of life while waiting for the arrival of her children and grandchildren to the family summer home, Maude Chambliss recalls a life of wealth, friendship, love, and loss. Simultaneous.

About this title

About the Authors

Anne Rivers Siddons is the New York Times bestselling author of 19 novels that include Nora, Nora, Sweetwater Creek, Islands, Peachtree Road, and Outer Banks. She is also the author of the nonfiction work John Chancellor Makes Me Cry.

Judith Ivey has received two Tony® and two Drama Desk awards; she starred in the television series Down Home and has appeared in seventy-five stage productions and twenty films.

Reviews

A young Southern woman marries into an aristocratic Boston family and spends her summers at a vacation community on the Maine coast. Heavy-handed abridgment reduces this novel to an outline which denies the listener any character development. Judith Ivey offers stereotypical dialects which are discordant to a New Englander's ear. In her interpretation the Down East Mainers speak like thugs in raspy voices. Her presentation of a Boston accent is phonetically erratic and also spoken in gruff tones. The color and flavor of Maine are missing from this tasteless rendition. J.P. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperAudio
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559945931
• ISBN 13: 9781559945936
• Binding: Audio CD
• Number of pages: 4