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Before You Know Kindness audiobook
- By: Chris Bohjalian
- Narrator: Blair Brown
- Category: Fiction, Literary
- Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2004
- Language: English
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Before You Know Kindness Audiobook Summary
For ten summers, the Seton family—all three generations—met at their country home in New England to spend a week together playing tennis, badminton, and golf, and savoring gin and tonics on the wraparound porch to celebrate the end of the season. In the eleventh summer, everything changed. A hunting rifle with a single cartridge left in the chamber wound up in exactly the wrong hands at exactly the wrong time, and led to a nightmarish accident that put to the test the values that unite the family—and the convictions that just may pull it apart.
Before You Know Kindness is a family saga that is timely in its examination of some of the most important issues of our era, and timeless in its exploration of the strange and unexpected places where we find love.
As he did with his earlier masterpiece, Midwives, Chris Bohjalian has written a novel that is rich with unforgettable characters—and absolutely riveting in its page-turning intensity.
“Few writers can manipulate a plot with Bohjalian’s grace and power.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Chris Bohjalian’s many fans will be glad to know he’s back on the high wire, expertly balancing topical issues with the more timeless concerns of the human heart. His well-drawn, sympathetic characters deepen and intensify the novel’s gripping plot rather than simply serving it. Before You Know Kindness is smart, first-rate storytelling.”—Richard Russo, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls
“Once again, Chris Bohjalian dares to tackle the complexities—and complacencies—of modern society at its most vulnerable spot, where the personal clashes with the political, where the private is forced to go public. And once again, he forges a drama that will keep his readers on the edge of their seats…perhaps their conscience as well.”—Julia Glass, winner of the National Book Award for Three Junes
“Chris Bohjalian’s magnificent new novel, Before You Know Kindness, is the best work of fiction I’ve read about an American family since Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. It is one of the funniest, best-written, most compassionate, most engaging, and flat-out most enjoyable novels I’ve ever read.”—Howard Frank Mosher, winner of the New England Book Award for A Stranger in the Kingdom
“Elegant, refined…a triumph.” —Booklist (starred review)
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Before You Know Kindness Full Details
| Narrator | Blair Brown |
| Length | 5 hours 31 minutes |
| Author | Chris Bohjalian |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780739314166 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Before You Know Kindness is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: bestselling books, chris bojahlian, nyt best seller list, book lovers gifts, feminist theory, women, sociology, race, politics, womens studies, philosophy, women's history, culture, criticism, african american, gender studies, academic, social history, biography, theory, american history, literature, cultural studies, literary criticism, sexism, reproductive rights, pop culture, social, psychology, civil rights, activism, society, social justice, social science, family, black studies, manifesto, free love, education, language, Fiction, Literary, Fiction, Family Life, Fiction, Crime The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary
Additional info
The publisher of the Before You Know Kindness is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780739314166.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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