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    Family Matters
    Family Matters
    Family Matters
    Audiobook2 hours

    Family Matters

    Written by Shirley Jackson, Frank O'Connor, Diane Leslie and

    Narrated by Lois Smith, Malachy McCourt, B. D. Wong and

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    About this audiobook

    Hilarious and colorful episodes in the lives of families... many depicted from a kid's-eye-view... are the theme for this compilation. Being part of a family is often trying, and stranger than any fiction, but never dull and always worth it in the end. Join these very different families as they face the shrinking of parents, the preemptive guilt of First Confession, the secret worlds of children, and more!

    Included are:
    • Shirley Jackson's Charles
      Read by Lois Smith
      Laurie's parents are dying to meet the most misbehaved boy in school.
    • Frank O'Connor's First Confession
      Read by Malachy McCourt
      A guilt-ridden Irish lad fears his first confession may be his last.
    • Toure's Solomon's Big Day: A Children's Story
      Read by Daniel Alexander Jones
      A little boy named Solomon escapes into the magical world of his paintings.
    • Grace Paley's The Loudest Voice
      Read by Linda Lavin
      This year's Christmas pageant stars a Jewish girl.
    • Diane Leslie's A Life of Crime
      Read by Jill Eikenberry
      Love and passion, Hollywood style, from a girl's-eye-view.
    • Etgar Keret's Pride and Joy
      Read by Robert Sean Leonard
      A young man struggles to save his shrinking parents.
    • Rick Moody's Boys
      Read by B. D. Wong
      The world of boys.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSymphony Space
    Release dateOct 1, 2007
    ISBN9781467663472
    Family Matters
    Author

    Shirley Jackson

    Shirley Jackson was an American author who is best known for the short story “The Lottery” and the horror novel The Haunting of Hill House. Married to the literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, Jackson cultivated a literary lifestyle, writing full time and developing relationships with literary colleagues. A gifted writer, Jackson frequently took inspiration from the events and locales of rural Vermont, where she and her family resided, and from the exploits of her children, which were chronicled in Life Among the Savages. Jackson died of heart failure in 1965.

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