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Aurelia, Aurélia

A MemoirBy Kathryn DavisRecorded Track
Length2h 53m

About this audiobook

An eerily dream-like memoir, and the first work of nonfiction by one of our most inventive novelists Aurelia, Aurélia begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe. She has the confidence of a teenager cultivating her earliest obsessions—Woolf, Durrell, Bergman—sure of her maturity, sure of the life that awaits her. Soon she finds herself in a Greece far drearier than the Greece of fantasy, “climbing up and down the steep paths every morning with the real old women, looking for kindling.” Kathryn Davis’s hypnotic new book is a meditation on the way imagination shapes life and how life, as it moves forward, shapes imagination. At its center is the death of her husband, Eric. The book unfolds as a study of their marriage, its deep joys and stinging frustrations; it is also a book about time, the inexorable events that determine beginnings and endings.

Audiobook details

Rating★★★★ 3.8 (453)
Includes Goodreads, StoryGraph, Amazon, LibraryThing
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length2 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMar 1, 2022
LanguageEnglish

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