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Length19h 43m
About this audiobook
Winner of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this collection of thirty stories includes some of Jean Stafford’s best short fiction from the period 1944 to 1968. Including such favorites as “In the Zoo,” “Children Are Bored on Sunday,” and “Beatrice Trueblood’s Story,” the collection offers the work of this popular writer of the 1940s and 1950s to a new generation of readers and critics.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.9 (1.8K)
Includes Goodreads, StoryGraph, Amazon, LibraryThing
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length19 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byElisabeth Rodgers
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateApr 25, 2020
LanguageEnglish
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