

DOWNTOWN
Author: Anne Rivers Siddons
Narrator: Kate Burton
Abridged: 5 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 09/27/2005
Categories: Fiction, Women, Southern, Romance, Contemporary Romance
Author: Anne Rivers Siddons
Narrator: Kate Burton
Abridged: 5 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 09/27/2005
Categories: Fiction, Women, Southern, Romance, Contemporary Romance
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.
Kate Burton has made numerous stage, film, and television appearances, and was seen on Broadway most recently in Hedda Gabler and The Beauty Queen of Leenane. She played the title role in Alice in Wonderland with her father, Richard Burton, on PBS.
A young Irish Catholic woman moves from Savannah to Atlanta in 1966. She takes a job at a newspaper writing about issues in Atlanta's black community. The book is about the various cultural changes that happened in the 60's, while also being a coming-of-age story and romance. I picked this up because......more
I loved the excitement Smoky felt about her first real job and the glamour of Atlanta at the beginning of this book. I could relate. I remember my first “real” job and how exciting it was to work “downtown”. And that song played through my head as I read the book. Siddons has been known to add a dar......more
Re-visiting “Downtown” after many years reminds me, as if I need reminding, just how good a writer Anne Rivers Siddons is. This 1994 novel is her towering tribute to the city of Atlanta, to its famous city magazine and the editor and staff that made it landmark publication of the turbulent 60s in th......more
Finished a few days ago. Seemed mostly an exercise in self indulgence. Much about what a special group of people, working for a city magazine, they were..but nothing to really make the reader feel it and agree. Much about what an important time it was, and feeling so connected to ‘the movement’..but ag......more