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Mary and O'Neil: A Novel in Stories Audiobook
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Mary and O'Neil frequently marveled at how, of all the lives they might have led, they had somehow found this one together. When they met at the Philadelphia high school where they'd come to teach, each had suffered a profound loss that had not healed. How likely was it that they could learn to trust, much less love, again? Justin Cronin's poignant debut traces the lives of Mary Olson and O'Neil Burke, two vulnerable young teachers who rediscover in each other a world alive with promise and hope. From the formative experiences of their early adulthood to marriage, parenthood, and beyond, this novel in stories illuminates the moments of grace that enable Mary and O'Neil to make peace with the deep emotional legacies that haunt them: the sudden, mysterious death of O'Neil’s parents, Mary’s long-ago decision to end a pregnancy, O'Neil’s sister's battle with illness and a troubled marriage. Alive with magical nuance and unexpected encounters, Mary and O'Neil celebrates the uncommon in common lives, and the redemptive power of love.
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“In unassailably well-crafted prose, novelist Justin Croninoffers us the story of an ordinary family placed under extraordinarycircumstances and held together by the solid footing of love and intimacy.”
— Barnes & Noble, editorial review
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“[An] artful debut…Cronin writes clear and careful prose, and is admirably fearless in the scope of his imagination.”
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“An astonishingly good first novel…What a gift to be able to live alongside these people for a while.”
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“A literary love story…about the fragility of good fortune and the accidental ways of finding happiness.”
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“Cronin succeeds, touchingly and tenderly, in portraying life itself as a triumph of hope over experience.”
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“A promising debut.”
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“A worthy first effort by a novelist worth watching.”
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“A quiet debut, its very understatement giving rise to its poignancy and strength.”
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“Justin Cronin’s Mary and O’Neil is that rare thing: a wholly engrossing story of the ordinary life.”
— Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls’ Rising
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Winner of the 2002 PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award
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Winner of Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for First Fiction, 2002
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About Justin Cronin
Justin Cronin is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels in The Passage series, three stand-alone novels, and a novella. Mary and O’Neil won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize. His work has been published in over forty-five languages and has sold more than three million copies worldwide. He is a writer in residence at Rice University."
About Edoardo Ballerini
Edoardo Ballerini, an American actor, director, film producer, and multiaward–winning narrator. He has won several Audie Awards for best narration, including for 2019’s Best Male Narrator of the Year. He was named by Booklist as winner of their 2023 Voice of Choice Award, and was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine in 2019. He has narrated over two hundred audiobooks, from classics to modern masters, from bestsellers to the inspirational, from Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners to spine-tingling series, and much more. In television and film, he is best known for his roles in A Murder at the End of the World, The Sopranos, 24, I Shot Andy Warhol, Dinner Rush, and Romeo Must Die. He is also trained in theater and continues to do much work on stage.