Vincent Piazza has narrated 2 audiobooks on Listento.it by 6 authors, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 60 ratings. The most-rated is Manhattan Beach.
Manhattan Beach
Summary
The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly 12 years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children, and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles. Years later her father has disappeared, and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career as a Ziegfield folly, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a nightclub she chances to meet Styles, the man she visited with her father before he vanished, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have been murdered. Mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime, the merchant marine, and the clash of classes in New York, Egan's first historical novel is a masterpiece, a deft, startling, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men, America, and the world. Manhattan Beach is a magnificent novel by one of the greatest writers of our time.
©2017 Jennifer Egan (P)2017 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
WordTheatre: Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, Volume 1
Summary
WordTheatre, the short story performance specialists, casts the perfect actors to bring great contemporary writing to life. The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America. Recorded live at benefit performances for their Fellowships endowment, Volume 1 of this stunning collection contains nine outstanding examples of the short story. Though varying in theme and tone, they share a brilliant pedigree. Vincent Piazza reading "Forky" by Andre Dubus III Amber Tamblyn reading "The Kiss" by Pamela Painter CCH Pounder reading "By Love Possessed" by Lorna Goodison Sean Young reading "Not the Plaster Casters" by Janice Eidus Samantha Mathis reading "Three Girls" by Joyce Carol Oates Robert David Hall reading "The Pass" by Steve Almond Amy Irving reading "The Dead Boy at Your Window" by Bruce Holland Rogers Jackson Rathbone reading "The Bank Robbery" by Steven Schutzman John Heard reading "Tomorrow’s Bird" by Ian Frazier Produced and directed by Cedering Fox; edited by Sara Bencivenga; mixed and mastered by Theo Mondle; music composed by Greg Chun. WordTheatre gives voice to great writing. We are an innovative, internationally recognized, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring empathy, curiosity, and conversation through powerful and entertaining performances, both live and recorded, of the world's best contemporary literature. We aim to ignite a passion for reading, writing, and self-expression in our community and in future generations.
©2014 Cedering Fox (P)2014 WordTheatre