Twilight Sleep

Name: Twilight Sleep
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9798212513043

Author: Edith Wharton

Narrator: Linda Jones

Unabridged: 9 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Published: 03/14/2023

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Satire

Synopsis

Twilight Sleep, a gothic satire of Jazz Age New York, was an instant best-seller when it was released in 1927. Quintessential Edith Wharton, it is stylish and sharp, at turns scathing, hilarious and melodramatic, but also deeply and surprisingly human. In a modernist twist, the story is told by three distinct narrators—19-year-old Nona Manford, her unflappable socialite mother Pauline, and Nona’s father and Pauline’s second husband, divorce lawyer Dexter Manford. All are trying to save the marriage of Nona’s half-brother, Jim Wyant, and his wife Lita. And in doing so, all are confronting their own fears and frustrations and devising ever more outlandish means of escape.

About Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) is the author of several novels, including The Age of Innocence and Old New York, both of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was the first woman to receive that honor. In 1929 she was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction. She was born in New York and is best known for her stories of life among the upper-class society into which she was born. She was educated privately at home and in Europe. In 1894 she began writing fiction, and her novel The House of Mirth established her as a leading writer.

About Linda Jones

Linda Jones is an award-winning narrator and NYC actor with a penchant for dark edges and curious truths. Weaned on du Maurier and Hitchcock, Kafka and Poe-tales of mystery, adventure, and intrigue spawned a decades-long career with writers in new work, development, and narration. She has narrated for Penguin Random House, Recorded Books, Audible Studios, and Dreamscape, as well as a variety of independent authors and publishers. She has a BFA from Ithaca College. She lives in Brooklyn with writer John C. Foster and their dog, Coraline, in an apartment filled-to-bursting, floor-to-ceiling, corner-to-absolute-corner with books.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Henry

The Roaring Twenties a time of complete change from Victorian and Edwardian eras, only two decades removed, the Great War catapulted moral values and customs at an exhilarated pace, what was shocking a few years previously became common practice, after the butchering of millions, the old ways seems......more

Goodreads review by Majenta

I enjoyed this way more than THE AGE OF INNOCENCE. There, I said it.......more

Quotes

“A brilliant and penetrating study of life in the upper social circles of New York…its people all fully and sharply characterized, its story managed with the most praiseworthy dexterity, and the whole seasoned with the acid of Mrs. Wharton’s keen satire.” New York Evening Post (1927)