The Perfectionist, Joyce Carol Oates
The Perfectionist, Joyce Carol Oates
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The Perfectionist

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: David Schwimmer, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2001

Synopsis

Prize-winning author Joyce Carol Oates turns her satiric eye to Tobias Harte, a man obsessed with perfection in everything from ethics to egg salad. Rollicking comedy ensues as Harte struggles with his highly imperfect family and friends.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barbara Bosson, Annabeth Gish, Harold Gould, Valerie Landsburg, David Schwimmer and David Selby.

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 Sue on March 24, 2022

I go through periods when I will read anything Joyce Carol Oates has written. But every so often I come across one like this. It’s interesting but not greatly so. I think some of the reason I didn’t care much for it was that it was an audiobook and sounded like the actual play. It did not sound narr......more

Goodreads review by John on June 16, 2010

I didn't love these plays, sad to say. The title play was probably my favorite. I got a little irritated by the fact that there are so many references to specific time-frame in some of these plays; Oates references the Gulf War of the early nineties a couple times, and the Berlin Wall, Ethiopia fami......more

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