Nurit Peled-Elhanan
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Five Smooth Stones
- A Novel
- By: Ann Fairbairn
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 34 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 85
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 80
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Story5 out of 5 stars 80
David Champlin is a Black man born into poverty in Depression-era New Orleans who achieves great success and then sacrifices everything to lead his people in the difficult, day-by-day struggle of the civil rights movement. Sara Kent is the beloved and vital White girl who loved David from the moment she first saw him, but they struggled over David's belief that a marriage for them would not be right in the violent world he had to confront.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read this in my late teens
- By Susan B Hammack on 04-29-22
- Five Smooth Stones
- A Novel
- By: Ann Fairbairn
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
Reading
Reviewed: 11-15-22
All the characters come through very authentic except Sara and this is a great pity
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White Teeth
- By: Zadie Smith
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 23 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,506
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,184
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,186
Archie's life has disintegrated. Fresh from a dead marriage, middle-aged Archie stretches out a vacuum hose, seals up his car and prepares to die. But unbeknownst to him, his darkest hour is also his luckiest day. With the opening of a butcher's shop, his life is saved and soon he is on his way to beginning a new life with a young Jamaican woman looking for the last man on earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb narration
- By Susan on 11-14-07
- White Teeth
- By: Zadie Smith
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
great
Reviewed: 03-27-17
If you could sum up White Teeth in three words, what would they be?
post colonial best
What was one of the most memorable moments of White Teeth?
many
What does Jenny Sterlin bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
tone, registers, personalities
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
it is poignant and exact in its capturing the split of immigrants
Any additional comments?
wonderfully written' witty to extreme
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