BSA Spoon River Anthology - Audiobook CD

Deemed essential in the canon of American literature, this audio book masterpiece performed in its entirety by a full cast of fifty, with specially commissioned original music, makes the classic accessible to everyone. From a cemetery in a fictional mid-American town, the dead speak the truths about their lives. Some speak of hardships and sordid affairs, while others speak of their simple, honest, happy lives. Some are elderly and others are youthful or children, but mortality has claimed them all. Their voices reach us deeplyalternately plaintive, anguished, enigmatic, angry, contemptuous, and comedic, evoking themes of love, hope, disappointment, despair, and abiding faith. As the Spoon River residents examine their lives, they invite us to do the same.

About the Author.

Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950) is best known for the Spoon River Anthology (1915). As well as verse, he also wrote biographies of fellow writers including Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. Shena Mackay is the author of a number of works, including the Booker-shortlisted The Orchard on Fire. Her most recent novel, Heligoland (2003), was shortlisted for the both Orange Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread Novel Award.

• Audio CD - 1 pages.
• Publisher - Audio GO; Unabridged edition (September 7, 2002).
• Language - English.