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Kym Dakin Audiobook sample 1 English - North American Audiobooks Child, Young Adult Female, Middle Age Female, Middle Age Male None This audiobook was the winner of the 2006 Audie award in the short story category. Subtle suspense on a train with characters of a variety of ages and genders.
Review:
The subtle and exquisitely polished stories of Alice Munro are among the literary marvels of our time, and Kymberly Dakin conveys effectively the peculiar blend of Canadian “haut provincialism” that provides the tone, context, and so much of the humor of Munro's finest work. Each of these eight stories features a runaway of some kind; dramatic events are most often filtered through the consciousness and recollection of a female protagonist. Dakin, who also narrated Munro's last story collection, HATESHIP, FRIENDSHIP, COURTSHIP, LOVESHIP, MARRIAGE, works successfully in a narrow band of vocals and tones, grasping that these are stories of voice and of distance, in which motive and outcome often remain mysterious, and in which evenness of delivery is part of the drama of the telling.
Produced by BBC Audiobooks 2006
