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The Behavior of Love: A Novel Audiobook, by Virginia Reeves Play Audiobook Sample

The Behavior of Love: A Novel Audiobook

The Behavior of Love: A Novel Audiobook, by Virginia Reeves Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Sarah Ginsberg, Jacques Roy Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: May 2019 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781508283799

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

52

Longest Chapter Length:

35:41 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

07 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

09:45 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

An incredibly compulsive, poignant exploration of marriage, lust, and ambition from one of America's great young literary talents, the Man-Booker Prize longlisted author of Work Like Any Other.

Doctor Ed Malinowski believes he has realized most of his dreams. A passionate, ambitious behavioral psychiatrist, he is now the superintendent of a mental institution and finally turning the previously crumbling hospital around. He also has a home he can be proud of, and a fiercely independent, artistic wife Laura, whom he hopes will soon be pregnant.

But into this perfect vision of his life comes Penelope, a beautiful, young epileptic who should never have been placed in his institution and whose only chance at getting out is Ed. She is intelligent, charming, and slowly falling in love with her charismatic, compassionate doctor. As their relationship grows more complicated, and Laura stubbornly starts working at his hospital, Ed must weigh his professional responsibilities against his personal ones, and find a way to save both his job and his family.

A love triangle set in one of the most chaotic, combustible settings imaginable, The Behavior of Love is wise, riveting, and deeply resonant.

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“Even handed and sensitive, this psychologically acute novel is a compassionate reflection on the commitments we make, both professional and personal.”

— Esquire

Quotes

  • “Marital emotion boils within a cool experimental framework…There is not just suffering here—there is also a deep saturation and beauty of experience.”

    — New Yorker

Awards

  • Longlisted for the 2019 Reading the West Book Award

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About Virginia Reeves

Virginia Reeves is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. Her fiction has appeared in the Common and the Baltimore Review and has been short-listed for the Tennessee Williams Fiction Contest and the Alexander Patterson Cappon Fiction Award.

About Sarah Ginsberg

Jacques Roy is a audio narrator and actor, known for The Lower Angels and Room and Board.