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Still Life with Bread Crumbs: A Novel Audiobook
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A superb love story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen
Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.
Brilliantly written, powerfully observed, Still Life with Bread Crumbs is a deeply moving and often very funny story of unexpected love, and a stunningly crafted journey into the life of a woman, her heart, her mind, her days, as she discovers that life is a story with many levels, a story that is longer and more exciting than she ever imagined.
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“Sixty-year-old Rebecca Winters is having a midlife crisis. Once an iconic photographer, her fame, and sales, have diminished over the years, and money problems have reached a crisis point…Narrator MacDuffie perfectly conveys Rebecca’s worries and self-doubt, her increasing attraction to Jim, and her ultimate sense of confidence and peace. She also creates memorable and believable voices for the other characters—particularly for garrulous Sarah (a village baker) and manly Jim.”
— Publishers Weekly, audio review
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“Quindlen has always excelled at capturing telling details in a story, and she does so again in this quiet, powerful novel, showing the charged emotions that teem beneath the surface of daily life.”
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“Quindlen has made a home at the top of the bestsellers lists with novels that capture the grace and frailty of everyday life, and her latest work is sure to take her there again. With spare, elegant prose, she crafts a poignant glimpse into the inner life of an aging woman who discovers that reality contains much more color than her own celebrated black-and-white images.”
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“A Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and star in the pantheon of domestic fiction, Quindlen presents instantly recognizable characters who may be appealingly warm and nonthreatening, but that only serves to drive home her potent message that it’s never too late to embrace life’s second chances.”
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“Profound…Engaging.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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A New York Times bestseller
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A USA Today bestseller
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A Los Angeles Times bestseller
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A Publishers Weekly bestseller
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An NPR bestseller
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A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
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A Chicago Tribune bestseller
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Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award
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A 2014 Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee
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A Library Journal bestseller
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An AudioFile Best Audiobook of the Year for 2014
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About Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen is the author of many acclaimed books, including the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Rise and Shine and One True Thing, an Oprah Book Club Selection, among others.
About Carrington MacDuffie
Carrington MacDuffie is a voice actor and recording artist who has narrated over two hundred audiobooks, received numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards, and has been a frequent finalist for the Audie Award, including for her original audiobook, Many Things Invisible. Alongside her narration work, she has released a new album of original songs, Only an Angel.