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Paint It Black audiobook

  • By: Janet Fitch
  • Narrator: Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio
  • Publish date: September 18, 2006
  • Language: English
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Paint It Black Audiobook Summary

Josie Tyrell, art model, runaway, and denizen of LA’s rock scene finds a chance at real love with Michael Faraday, a Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist. But when she receives a call from the coroner, asking her to identify her lover’s body, her bright dreams all turn to black.

As Josie struggles to understand Michael’s death and to hold onto the world they shared, she is both attracted to and repelled by his pianist mother, Meredith, who blames Josie for her son’s torment. Soon the two women are drawn into a twisted relationship that reflects equal parts distrust and blind need. With the luxurious prose and fever pitch intensity that are her hallmarks, Janet Fitch weaves a spellbinding tale of love, betrayal, and the possibility of transcendence.

“A dark, crooked beauty that fulfills all the promise of White Oleander and confirms that Janet Fitch is an artist of the very highest order.”-Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Lushly written, dramatically plotted. . . Fitch’s Los Angeles is so real it breathes.”-Atlantic Monthly

“There is nothing less than a stellar sentence in this novel. Fitch’s emotional honesty recalls the work of Joyce Carol Oates, her strychnine sentences the prose of Paula Fox.”-Cleveland Plain Dealer

“A page-turning psychodrama. . . . Fitch’s prose penetrates the inner lives of [her characters] with immediacy and bite.”-Publishers Weekly

“Fitch wonderfully captures the abrasive appeal of punk music, the bohemian, sometimes squalid lifestyle, the performers, the drugs, the alienation. This is crackling fresh stuff you don’t read every day.”-USA Today

“In dysfunctional family narratives, Fitch is to fiction what Eugene O’Neill is to drama.”-Chicago Sun-Times

“Riveting. . . . An uncommonly accomplished page-turner.”-Elle

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Paint It Black Audiobook Narrator

Jennifer Jason Leigh is the narrator of Paint It Black audiobook that was written by Janet Fitch

About the Author(s) of Paint It Black

Janet Fitch is the author of Paint It Black

Paint It Black Full Details

Narrator Jennifer Jason Leigh
Length 6 hours 20 minutes
Author Janet Fitch
Publisher Hachette Audio
Release date September 18, 2006
ISBN 9781594835698

Additional info

The publisher of the Paint It Black is Hachette Audio. The imprint is Little, Brown & Company. It is supplied by Hachette Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781594835698.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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