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The Turnout Audiobook

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Read By: Cassandra Campbell Publisher: Penguin Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 7.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: August 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780593408612

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

49

Longest Chapter Length:

29:26 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

11 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

14:18 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

11

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Publisher Description

Best Book of the Year NPR • Wall Street Journal • Boston Globe • Library Journal • CrimeReads • LitReactor • Air Mail

  • Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize
  • A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick
  • An Instant New York Times Bestseller
  • New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott's exquisite and disquieting new novel, “dark and juicy and tinged with horror” (The New York Times Books Review), set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio. With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Growing up, they were homeschooled and trained by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents' death in a tragic accident nearly a dozen years ago, the sisters began running the school together, along with Charlie, Dara's husband and once their mother's prized student.   Marie, warm and soft, teaches the younger students; Dara, with her precision, trains the older ones; and Charlie, sidelined from dancing after years of injuries, rules over the back office. Circling around one another, the three have perfected a dance, six days a week, that keeps the studio thriving. But when a suspicious accident occurs, just at the onset of the school's annual performance of The Nutcracker—a season of competition, anxiety, and exhilaration—an interloper arrives and threatens the sisters' delicate balance. Taut and unnerving, The Turnout is Megan Abbott at the height of her game. With uncanny insight and hypnotic writing, it is a sharp and strange dissection of family ties and sexuality, femininity and power, and a tale that is both alarming and irresistible.

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    “[Abbott’s] taut, unsettling writing creates tension through the slightest actions and phrases…This is clever, chilling psychological suspense at its best.”

    — Library Journal (starred review)

    Quotes

    • “Pulsing with suspense.”

      — People
    • “An excavation of the dark sides of family and femininity.”

      — Elle
    • “[A] taut, suspenseful novel that’s anxiety provoking in the best way.”

      — Vogue
    • “You feel the characters’ aches and pains in your joints, your feet, and, most dangerous of all, your heart.”

      — Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author

    Awards

    • A BookPage Top Pick of the Month
    • A Jenna Book Club Today Show Pick
    • A Time Magazine Pick for Summer
    • A Washington Postn Pick of Summer
    • A Boston Globe Pick for Summer
    • A Harper’s Bazaar Pick
    • A Real Simple Pick of Thrillers
    • A Crime Reads Pick of Best Crime Books of 2021
    • A People Pick of the Week
    • A New York Times bestseller
    • Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize
    • A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2021
    • A Boston Globe Best Books of the Year Selection
    • An NPR Best Book of the Year
    • A Library Journal Best Book of 2021
    • Finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award

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    About Megan Abbott

    Megan Abbott is an Edgar Award–winning author of several novels and nonfiction and the 2019 recipient of the Pinckley Prize for Distinguished Body of Work. Her novel The Fever won the International Thriller Writers Award and Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and was chosen one of the best books of the year by Amazon, National Public Radio, the Boston Globe, and the Los Angeles Times. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, and the London Guardian, among others. Her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies. She received her PhD in English and American literature from New York University. She is a staff writer on HBO’s David Simon show, The Deuce.

    About Cassandra Campbell

    Cassandra Campbell has won multiple Audie Awards, Earphones Awards, and the prestigious Odyssey Award for narration. She was been named a “Best Voice” by AudioFile magazine and in 2018 was inducted in Audible’s inaugural Narrator Hall of Fame.