Frances and Bernard
By Carlene Bauer
Read by Angela Brazil and Stephen R. Thorne
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$6.95
ISBN: 9781482153668
Bernard Elliot, a poet, and Frances Reardon, a fiction writer, meet at a writers' colony during the summer of 1957 and begin a friendship and correspondence. Bernard, well-born and Harvard-educated, is gregarious, reckless, and passionate; Frances, the precocious daughter of a middle-class Irish family, is circumspect, wry, and more than a little judgmental. What starts as an exploration of faith eventually becomes a romance, a development complicated by Bernard's fall into manic depression and Frances' struggle to decide whether she is strong enough to weather the illness with him for the long term. The novel is anchored by two deeply imagined, fully inhabited characters who give voice to a love story that is as emotionally powerful as it is intellectually spirited.
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Summary
Summary
A BuzzFeed Books Pick of 49 Books You Really Need to Read
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
Selected for the March 2013 Indie Next List
The novel is anchored by two deeply imagined, fully inhabited characters who give voice to a love story that is as emotionally powerful as it is intellectually spirited.
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Details
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Available Formats : | Digital Download, Digital Rental |
Category: | Fiction/Historical |
Runtime: | 6.67 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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