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Actress audiobook

  • By: Anne Enright
  • Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: March 03, 2020
  • Language: English
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Actress Audiobook Summary

A brilliant and moving novel about celebrity, sexual power, and a daughter’s search to understand her
mother’s hidden truths.

Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter, Norah, retraces her mother’s celebrated career and
bohemian life, she delves into long-kept secrets, both her mother’s and her own. Katherine began her career on
Ireland’s bus-and-truck circuit before making it to London’s West End, Broadway, and finally Hollywood. Every
moment of her life is a performance, with young Norah standing in the wings. But the mother-daughter romance
cannot survive Katherine’s past or the world’s damage. With age, alcohol, and dimming stardom, Katherine’s grip on
reality grows fitful. Fueled by a proud and long-simmering rage, she commits a bizarre crime.

As Norah’s role gradually changes to Katherine’s protector, caregiver, and finally legacy-keeper, she revisits her
mother’s life of fiercely kept secrets; and Norah reveals in turn the secrets of her own sexual and emotional comingof-age story. Her narrative is shaped by three braided searches–for her father’s identity; for her mother’s motive in
donning a Chanel suit one morning and shooting a TV producer in the foot; and her own search for a husband, family,
and work she loves.

Bringing to life two generations of women with difficult sexual histories, both assaulted and silenced, both finding–
or failing to find–their powers of recovery, Actress touches a raw and timely nerve. With virtuosic storytelling and in
prose at turns lyrical and knife-sharp, Anne Enright takes readers to the heart of the maddening yet tender love that
binds a mother and daughter.

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About the Author(s) of Actress

Anne Enright is the author of Actress

Actress Full Details

Length 8 hours 4 minutes
Author Anne Enright
Publisher Recorded Books, Inc.
Release date March 03, 2020
ISBN 9781980071730

Additional info

The publisher of the Actress is Recorded Books, Inc.. The imprint is Recorded Books, Inc.. It is supplied by Recorded Books, Inc.. The ISBN-13 is 9781980071730.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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