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A Wonderful Stroke of Luck audiobook
- By: Ann Beattie
- Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
- Category: Fiction, Literary
- Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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A Wonderful Stroke of Luck Audiobook Summary
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Vulture, The Millions, The Observer, and O, The Oprah Magazine
A razor-sharp, deeply felt new novel–the twenty-first book by Ann Beattie–about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teacher and his students, and the secrets we keep from those we love
At a boarding school in New Hampshire, Ben joins the honor society led by Pierre LaVerdere, an enigmatic, brilliant, yet perverse, teacher who instructs his students not only about how to reason, but how to prevaricate. As the years go by, LaVerdere’s covert and overt instruction lingers in his students’ lives as they seek some sense of purpose or meaning. When Ben feels the pace of his life accelerating and views his intimate relationships as less and less fulfilling, there seems to be a subtext he’s not able to access. And what, really, did Bailey Academy teach him?
While relationships with his stepmother and sister improve, and a move to upstate New York offers respite from his anxiety about love and work, LaVerdere’s reappearance in his life disturbs his equilibrium. Everything he once thought he knew about his teacher–and himself–is called into question. Written by one of our most iconic writers, known for casting a cold eye on her generation’s ambivalence and sometimes mistaken ambition, A Wonderful Stroke of Luck is a keenly observed psychological study of a man who alternates between careful driving and hazardous risk taking, as he struggles to incorporate his past into the vertiginous present.
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A Wonderful Stroke of Luck Full Details
| Narrator | Kirby Heyborne |
| Length | 9 hours 5 minutes |
| Author | Ann Beattie |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781984842589 |
Subjects
The publisher of the A Wonderful Stroke of Luck is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: Ann Beattie, A Wonderful Stroke of Luck by Ann Beattie, A Wonderful Stroke of Luck, wit, teacher, society, secret society, school, relationships, realistic fiction, prep school, novel, new york city, new york, new england, master, literature, literary fiction, literary, icon, high school, funny, friendship, fiction books, fiction, family, english, contemporary fiction, coming of age, club, campus life, book club recommendations, book club, boarding school, bailey, art, american literature, adulthood, academy, 21st century, drama, Fiction, Literary, Fiction, Coming of Age, Fiction, Humorous The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary
Additional info
The publisher of the A Wonderful Stroke of Luck is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781984842589.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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