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Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society audiobook

  • By: Amy Hill Hearth
  • Narrator: Amy Hill Hearth
  • Category: Contemporary Women, Fiction
  • Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
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Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society Audiobook Summary

A brilliant debut novel from a New York Times bestselling author about a transplanted wife from Boston who arrives in Florida in the 1960s, starts a literary salon, and shakes up the status quo.

Eighty-year-old Dora, the narrator of a story that began a half century earlier, is bonding with an unlikely set of friends, including Jackie Hart, a restless middle-aged wife and mother from Boston, who gets into all sorts of trouble when her family moves to a small, sleepy town in Collier County, Florida, circa 1962.

With humor and insight the novel chronicles the awkward North-South cultural divide as Jackie, this hapless but charming “Yankee,” looks for some excitement in her life by accepting an opportunity to host a local radio show where she creates a mysterious, late-night persona, “Miss Dreamsville,” and by launching a reading group–the Collier County Women’s Literary Society–thus sending the conservative and racially segregated town into uproar. The only townspeople who venture to join are regarded as outsiders at best–a young gay man, a divorced woman, a poet, and a young black woman who dreams of going to college.

This brilliant fiction debut by Amy Hill Hearth, a New York Times bestselling author, brings to life unforgettable characters who found the one thing that eluded them as individuals:a place in the world. Inspired by a real person, Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society will touch the heart of anyone and everyone who has ever felt like an outsider longing to fit in.

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Amy Hill Hearth is the narrator of Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society audiobook that was written by Amy Hill Hearth

Amy Hill Hearth is the author of Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society and Miss Dreamsville and the Lost Heiress of Collier County, in addition to author or coauthor of seven nonfiction books, including Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years, the New York Times bestseller-turned-Broadway-play. Hearth, a former writer for The New York Times, began her career as a reporter at a small daily newspaper in Florida, where she met her future husband, Blair (a Collier County native). She is a graduate of the University of Tampa.
 

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Amy Hill Hearth is the author of Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society

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Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society Full Details

Narrator Amy Hill Hearth
Length 5 hours 42 minutes
Author Amy Hill Hearth
Category
Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio
Release date April 26, 2024
ISBN 9781442357891

Subjects

The publisher of the Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Contemporary Women, Fiction

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The publisher of the Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781442357891.

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