Ann Napolitano has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 33 ratings. The most-rated is Dear Edward.
Dear Edward
Summary
New York Times Best Seller Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today A “dazzling” novel that “will break your heart and put it back together again” (J. Courtney Sullivan, best-selling author of Saints for All Occasions) about a young boy who must learn to go on after surviving tragedy. Named one of the best books of the year by: The Washington Post Parade LibraryReads “A reading experience that leaves you profoundly altered for the better.... Don’t miss this one.” (Jodi Picoult, best-selling author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light) What does it mean not just to survive, but to truly live? One summer morning, 12-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward is the sole survivor. Edward’s story captures the attention of the nation, but he struggles to find a place in a world without his family. He continues to feel that a part of himself has been left in the sky, forever tied to the plane and all of his fellow passengers. But then he makes an unexpected discovery - one that will lead him to the answers of some of life’s most profound questions: When you’ve lost everything, how do you find the strength to put one foot in front of the other? How do you learn to feel safe again? How do you find meaning in your life? Dear Edward is at once a transcendent coming-of-age story, a multidimensional portrait of an unforgettable cast of characters, and a breathtaking illustration of all the ways a broken heart learns to love again. Praise for Dear Edward “Dear Edward made me think, nod in recognition, care about its characters, and cry, and you can’t ask more of a novel than that.” (Emma Donoghue, New York Times best-selling author of Room) “Weaving past and present into a profoundly beautiful, page-turning story of mystery, loss, and wonder, Dear Edward is a meditation on survival, but more important, it is about carving a life worth living. It is about love and hope and caring for others, and all the transitory moments that bind us together.” (Hannah Tinti, author of The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley and The Good Thief)
©2020 Ann Napolitano (P)2020 Random House Audio
A Good Hard Look
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In Flannery O'Connor's hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia, reckless relationships lead to a tragedy that forever alters the town and the author herself. Crippled by lupus at 25, celebrated author Flannery O'Connor was forced to leave New York City and return home to Andalusia, her family farm in Milledgeville, Georgia. Years later, as Flannery is finishing a novel and tending to her menagerie of peacocks, her mother drags her to the wedding of a family friend. Cookie Himmel embodies every facet of Southern womanhood that Flannery lacks: she is revered for her beauty and grace; she is at the helm of every ladies' organization in town; and she has returned from her time in Manhattan with a rich fiancé, Melvin Whiteson. Melvin has come to Milledgeville to begin a new chapter in his life, but it is not until he meets Flannery that he starts to take a good hard look at the choices he has made. Despite the limitations of her disease, Flannery seems to be more alive than other people, and Melvin is drawn to her like a moth to a candle flame. Melvin is not the only person in Milledgeville who starts to feel that life is passing him by. Lona Waters, the dutiful wife of a local policeman, is hired by Cookie to help create a perfect home. As Lona spends her days sewing curtains, she is given an opportunity to remember what it feels like to be truly alive, and she seizes it with both hands. Heartbreakingly beautiful and inescapably human, these ordinary and extraordinary people chart their own courses through life. In the aftermath of one tragic afternoon, they are all forced to look at themselves and face up to Flannery's observation that "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
©2011 Ann Napolitano (P)2011 Penguin
N'oublie pas de vivre
Summary
Été 2013. Edward Adler, 12 ans, embarque avec ses parents, son frère aîné et 183 autres passagers à bord d'un vol pour Los Angeles au départ de New York. Parmi eux, un jeune loup de Wall Street qui flirte avec l'hôtesse, un soldat blessé en Afghanistan, un vieil industriel richissime et malade, une jeune femme ébranlée par la nouvelle de sa grossesse, une autre croyant en la réincarnation. Mais tandis que tous songent à ce que demain leur réserve, l'avion s'écrase dans un champ du Colorado... Edward est l'unique rescapé du crash. Pendant des mois, son histoire émeut l'Amérique et, entre état de choc et insomnies, le garçon doit faire face à la perte de sa famille et à une morbide célébrité. Confié à son oncle et sa tante, il tente maladroitement de donner un sens à sa survie, aidé en cela par sa nouvelle et singulière voisine, Shay. C'est alors que les adolescents font une découverte aussi bouleversante qu'inattendue : celle de centaines de lettres envoyées à Edward par des proches des victimes, et que son oncle lui a cachées...
©2020 Titre original : "Dear Edward" publié par The Dial Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York / Ann Napolitano. All rights reserved / Presses de la Cité, un département Place des Éditeurs, pour la traduction française. Traduit par Isabelle Maillet (P)2020 Lizzie, un département d'Univers Poche, Paris