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Product Description Winner of AudioFile Magazine's Earphones Award for Exceptional Audio Performance Hilarity, suspense, and high drama are offered up in the mix of tales of travel to locales familiar and exotic found on this three-CD compilation from National Public Radio's Selected Shorts. An award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction, the selections are read by distinguished stage and screen actors and recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. Join a father and son on a sailing voyage that goes dangerously awry or retreat to a country estate with the most eccentric hosts imaginable. Featured are stories written by Nadine Gordimer, Joan Didion, and Ring Lardner, among others, and read by such actors as Joanne Woodward and Bradley Whitford. Review "They aren't adventure travel by any means, but are light and funny and speak of little quirks and amusing occurrences." Written Road From AudioFile [Editor's Note: The following is a combined review with SELECTED SHORTS: FOOD FICTIONS.]--Well-known actors read short stories in front of appreciative audiences at New York's Symphony Space in the long-running public radio series "Selected Shorts." Seasoned performers spurred to do their best by the combination of good writing and live audiences are irresistible. Thankfully, Symphony Space has been publishing anthologies culled from the broadcasts for some time. These two are unified by the themes of food and travel. Joanne Woodward, John Lithgow, Christina Pickles, and others read works by Chekhov, T.C. Boyle, Nadine Gordimer, and other authors, serious and comic. The humorous pieces are particularly enjoyable because of the palpable synergy between narrator and laughing audience. But all are enjoyable and satisfying. Y.R. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
