American Appetites, Joyce Carol Oates
American Appetites, Joyce Carol Oates
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American Appetites

Author: Joyce Carol Oates, Nick Olcott

Narrator: Keith Carradine, Anna Gunn, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/25/2009

Synopsis

L.A. Theatre Works presents the exclusive dramatization of Joyce Carol Oates’ best-selling novel. In American Appetites, the façade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the weight of tragedy and scandal. When Ian McCullough accidentally pushes his wife through a plate glass window during an argument, the American dream turns into a nightmare. A sophisticated, witty and chilling tale.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Lisa Akey, Keith Carradine, Alastair Duncan, Paul Eiding, Anna Gunn, Dan Lauria, Jean Louisa Kelly, Frank Muller, B.J. Ward, Elizabeth Ward Land, Liza Weil and Tegan West.

About Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is the author of such national bestsellers as The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys. Her other titles include Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, which features "The Woman in the Window," selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2017; The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, which won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection; and Jack of Spades. She is the recipient of the National Book Award for Them and the 2010 President's National Humanities Medal.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melinda

Well written, yes. Irritating, yes. A waste of my reading time, probably. I get the point, but I just didn't give a rip about the main characters, especially Ian. Supposedly such an intellectual, but what a bumbling idiot of a man. Indecisive, unwilling to own up to his own actions, oblivious to how......more

Goodreads review by Tina

I am often in my judgement of a book swayed by its cover. Publishers seem to think covers are essential for impulse buying to catch the eye, but these days I buy mostly online and am always baffled by the numerous editions and different cover illustrations. However, with this particular book I loved......more

Goodreads review by Raine

I really like Joyce Carol Oates' books and how the characters are so wonderfully studied. AMERICAN APPETITES is no exception. These characters are all upper class 1980's types, who live in upstate New York, and participate in liberal type careers like social demographics and college professors. Of c......more

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