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White Oleander
- By: Janet Fitch
- Narrated by: Oprah Winfrey
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,142
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 814
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 812
In this gripping first novel, a young girl, orphaned when her mother murders an ex-lover, endures the shuffle of a foster child's life. Oprah enjoyed her book club pick so much that she narrates the audiobook edition!
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3 out of 5 stars
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White Oleander
- By Tracy on 04-09-04
- White Oleander
- By: Janet Fitch
- Narrated by: Oprah Winfrey
This is an abridged version of the book
Reviewed: 05-20-21
White Oleander is the best poetic, magical and enthralling book I've ever read. I've owned a copy of this for about twenty or so years now, not because it was one of the novels on Oprah's Book Club but because of the movie my mother had dragged me to as a child.
The movie is based on the abridged reading here, which is fine and dandy to someone who knows only about the movie. However, there are large sections that are missing to someone who has the unabridged/complete version, and cutting these areas out were unexpected for me. I didn't enjoy it any less but I do have to dock this one star for incompleteness.
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