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The Glass Ocean audiobook

  • By: Lori Baker
  • Narrator: Cat Gould
  • Category: Fiction, General
  • Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2013
  • Language: English
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The Glass Ocean Audiobook Summary

A story of love, art, and obsession in Victorian England from debut novelist Lori Baker

The Glass Ocean is a story of becoming. Flamehaired, six-foot-two in stocking feet, newly orphaned Carlotta Dell’oro recounts the lives of her parents–solitary glassmaker Leopoldo Dell’oro and beautiful, unreachable Clotilde Girard–and discovers in their loves and losses, their omissions and obsessions, the circumstances of her abandonment and the weight of her inheritance. With a master artisan’s patience and exquisite craft, debut novelist Lori Baker has created a gemlike Victorian world, a place where mistakes of the past reappear in the future, art can destroy, and family is not to be trusted.

Leopoldo and Clotilde meet in 1841 aboard the Narcissus, on an expedition led by Clotilde’s magnanimous, adventuring father. It’s Leopoldo’s task to document the animals of the high sea, and by his skilled hand the drawings become the only record of these secretive creatures’ existence. But what possesses his mind is golden Clotilde, and soon his papers fill with images of her, beginning a devotion that will prove inescapable. Clotilde meanwhile sees only her dear papa, but when he goes missing she is pushed to Leopoldo, returning with him to the craggy English shores of Whitby, the place to which Leopoldo vowed he would never return.

There they form an uneasy coexistence, lost to each other. Clotilde asks only for her papa, and Leopoldo turns to town, where he finds himself in the employ of a local glassblower. There, he begins to conceive his newest project: transforming his sketches into glass, blowing life and light into the darkest creatures. But in finding his art he surrenders Clotilde, and the distance between the two is only confirmed by the birth of baby Carlotta.

Years have passed and Carlotta is now grown. A friend from the past comes to Whitby and with his arrival sets in motion the Dell’oros’ inevitable disintegration. Soon Carlotta is left alone to determine the course of her future, though perhaps it is written already. In hypnotic, inimitable prose Lori Baker’s The Glass Ocean transforms a story of family into something as otherworldly and mesmerizing as life beneath the sea itself.

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The Glass Ocean Audiobook Narrator

Cat Gould is the narrator of The Glass Ocean audiobook that was written by Lori Baker

Cat Gould grew up in Sydney, Australia, and after extensive travel moved to the United States in 1990. A classically trained actress with a BFA from Southern Oregon University, she has performed in many regional productions.

About the Author(s) of The Glass Ocean

Lori Baker is the author of The Glass Ocean

The Glass Ocean Full Details

Narrator Cat Gould
Length 11 hours 7 minutes
Author Lori Baker
Category
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Release date March 28, 2024
ISBN 9781481595827

Subjects

The publisher of the The Glass Ocean is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, General

Additional info

The publisher of the The Glass Ocean is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781481595827.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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