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The Air You Breathe audiobook
- By: Frances de Pontes Peebles
- Narrator: Rebecca Mozo
- Category: Fiction, Historical
- Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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The Air You Breathe Audiobook Summary
“[A] glorious, glittery saga of friendship and loss… I read The Air You Breathe in two nights. (One might say I inhaled it.).” –NPR
“Echoes of Elena Ferrante resound in this sumptuous saga.”–O, The Oprah Magazine
“Enveloping…Peebles understands the shifting currents of female friendship, and she writes so vividly about samba that you close the book certain its heroine’s voices must exist beyond the page.” –People
The story of an intense female friendship fueled by affection, envy and pride–and each woman’s fear that she would be nothing without the other.
Some friendships, like romance, have the feeling of fate.
Skinny, nine-year-old orphaned Dores is working in the kitchen of a sugar plantation in 1930s Brazil when in walks a girl who changes everything. Graça, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy sugar baron, is clever, well fed, pretty, and thrillingly ill behaved. Born to wildly different worlds, Dores and Graça quickly bond over shared mischief, and then, on a deeper level, over music.
One has a voice like a songbird; the other feels melodies in her soul and composes lyrics to match. Music will become their shared passion, the source of their partnership and their rivalry, and for each, the only way out of the life to which each was born. But only one of the two is destined to be a star. Their intimate, volatile bond will determine each of their fortunes–and haunt their memories.
Traveling from Brazil’s inland sugar plantations to the rowdy streets of Rio de Janeiro’s famous Lapa neighborhood, from Los Angeles during the Golden Age of Hollywood back to the irresistible drumbeat of home, The Air You Breathe unfurls a moving portrait of a lifelong friendship–its unparalleled rewards and lasting losses–and considers what we owe to the relationships that shape our lives.
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The Air You Breathe Audiobook Narrator
Rebecca Mozo is the narrator of The Air You Breathe audiobook that was written by Frances de Pontes Peebles
About the Author(s) of The Air You Breathe
Frances de Pontes Peebles is the author of The Air You Breathe
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The Air You Breathe Full Details
| Narrator | Rebecca Mozo |
| Length | 12 hours 54 minutes |
| Author | Frances de Pontes Peebles |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 02, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780525640615 |
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The publisher of the The Air You Breathe is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: beach reads for women, beach reads, lgbtq, historical fiction books, literary fiction, historical novels, book club recommendations, Portuguese, Book club picks, Book club, Book of the Month Club, Summer reading, Beach read, Historical fiction, South America, historical, Carmen Miranda, Suicide, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Lesbian, Relationships, Music, Great Depression, songwriter, Coming of age, Celebrity, singer, pop star, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, audio books for kindle, best gifts for women, woman gifts ideas, breathe, Fiction, Historical, Fiction, Literary, Fiction, Coming of Age The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Historical
Additional info
The publisher of the The Air You Breathe 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 9780525640615.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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