The Lives of Edie Pritchard, Larry Watson
The Lives of Edie Pritchard, Larry Watson
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The Lives of Edie Pritchard

Author: Larry Watson

Narrator: Holly Palance

Unabridged: 12 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/07/2020


Synopsis

Edie—smart, self assured, beautiful—always worked hard. She worked as a teller at a bank, she worked to save her first marriage, and later, she worked to raise her daughter even as her second marriage came apart. Really, Edie just wanted a good life, but everywhere she turned, her looks defined her. Two brothers fought over her. Her second husband became unreasonably possessive and jealous. Her daughter resented her. And now, as a grandmother, Edie finds herself harassed by a younger man. It’s been a lifetime of proving that she is allowed to exist in her own sphere. The Lives of Edie Pritchard tells the story of one woman just trying to be herself, even as multiple men attempt to categorize and own her.

About Larry Watson

Larry Watson is the author of ten critically acclaimed books, including the bestselling Montana 1948. His fiction has been published internationally and has received numerous prizes and awards. His essays and book reviews have appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and other periodicals. He currently resides with his wife in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

About Holly Palance

Holly Palance is an American actor and audiobook narrator who was born into a family where breakfast-table monologues, musical numbers, and one-arm pushups were the norm. After training at the Webber-Douglas Academy, she spent eight years performing on stage and television in London before continuing her career in the US. In 1976, she appeared in David Seltzer's The Omen. She currently works in film, behind the mic, and as a journalist.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jill on June 27, 2020

One fact is beyond dispute: Larry Watson is a born storyteller. For readers like me who have read just about everything he’s ever written, the publication of a new book is a thing of joy. Why? Let me count the ways. His dialogue is pitch-perfect: there is not one inauthentic note or one word out of p......more

Goodreads review by Erin on July 18, 2020

Edie Pritchard is meant to be a character that people will invest in. Each section of the book follows a different portion of her adult life living in Montana. We’re meant to identify with Edie’s struggles in each of her complicated marriages with even more complicated men. The reader is supposed to......more