The Devil and Webster Audiobook

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• “Kate Burton’s conversational tone immediately captures the character of the first female president of venerable Webster College…Burton transitions smoothly to a more thoughtful tone and crisper pace to mirror Naomi’s increasing anxiety…Burton’s effective delivery of the novel’s wry humor, anguish, and sober introspection results in a satisfying listen.”

  — AudioFile

• “Kate Burton portrays the sharp-witted and insightful Naomi extremely well.”

  — Library Journal (audio review)

• Korelitz's new novel is a smart, semi-satire about the reign of identity politics on college campuses today... The Devil and Webster is wittily on target about, among other things, social class and privilege, silencing and old-school feminist ambivalence about power.

  — NPR's Fresh Air

• Satisfying...A sharp and insightful novel....with a clever plot twist...This ought to be the start of a golden age for the campus novel.

  — The Wall Street Journal

• Korelitz taps into the current unsettled campus and cultural zeitgeist with eerie precision.

  — Booklist

• The Devil and Webster can be read as a suspense novel seasoned with social commentary or as a plot-driven academic satire. Korelitz excels in both directions.

  — Shelf Awareness

• A hilarious send-up of the current college climate.

  — The New York Post,

• There is so much in this novel, a thoughtful and beautiful work.... This is highly recommended reading, but don't forget to put on your thinking cap. You'll need it.

  — BookReporter

• Ms. Korelitz's book is smart and devious--enough so to bring to mind another work of trickery, one that has "Gone" in its title and does not feature Scarlett O'Hara.

  — The New York Times (Praise for You Should Have Known)

• Tempt the gods with smug self-righteousness and they will deliver a windfall of tragedy, as witness in Jean Hanff Korelitz's rollickingly good literary thriller...Korelitz writes intimately and engagingly about a social strata few are privy to, but the ugliness is very familiar.

  — Vanity Fair (Praise for You Should Have Known)

• This consuming, expertly plotted thriller moves along at a slow burn, building up to shocking revelations about Grace's past and ending with a satisfying twist on her former relationship mantra; 'doubt can be a gift.'

  — People (Praise for You Should Have Known)

• Korelitz does not disappoint as she chronicles the emotional unraveling of her heroine in this gripping saga...A cut above your average who-is-this-stranger-in-my-marriage-bed novel, YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN transforms itself at certain moments from a highly effective thriller into a nuanced novel of family, heritage, identity, and nurture.

  — The Boston Globe (Praise for You Should Have Known)

• This excellent literary mystery [unfolds] with authentic detail in a rarified contemporary Manhattan. . . intriguing and beautiful.

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review) (Praise for You Should Have Known)