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The Prettiest Star Audiobook, by Carter Sickels Play Audiobook Sample

The Prettiest Star Audiobook

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Read By: Tiffany Morgan, Charlie Thurston Publisher: Tantor Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: May 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781705205181

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

37

Longest Chapter Length:

48:39 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

03:36 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

16:48 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it's where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he's chosen to return to die.

At eighteen, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short years, AIDS would claim his lover, his friends, and his future. With nothing left in New York but memories of death, Brian decides to write his mother a letter asking to come back to the place, and family, he was once so desperate to escape.

Set in 1986, a year after Rock Hudson's death shifted the public consciousness of the epidemic and brought the news of AIDS into living rooms and kitchens across America, The Prettiest Star is part Dog Years by Mark Doty and part Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt. But it is also an urgent story now: it a novel about the politics and fragility of the body; it is a novel about sex and shame. And it is a novel that speaks to the question of what home and family means when we try to forge a life for ourselves in a world that can be harsh and unpredictable.

Contains mature themes.

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About the Narrators

Tiffany Morgan is a film and television actress who has starred in The Mist, Green Lantern, and The Joneses, as well as television’s The Vampire Diaries and Nashville.

Andi Arndt is a professional voice actor, the winner of a 2017 Audie Award for Best Romance, and winner of two Earphones Awards.