Publisher Description
A must-have for the fans of the #1 bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, a collection of his favorite short fiction from Flannery O'Connor to Tobias Wolff.
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories-some classic, others impending-selected and introduced by David Sedaris.
With this audiobook a careful listener can discover the truth about loneliness, betrayal, love and hope.
Where the Door is Always Open and the Welcome Mat is Out
by Patricia Highsmith, read by Cherry Jones
Bullet In the Brain by Tobias Wolff
read by Toby Wherry
Gryphon by Charles Baxter
read by David Sedaris
In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried by Amy Hempel
read by Mary-Louise Parker
Cosmopolitan by Akhil Sharma
read by the Author
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"The first story wasn't the best, but the others were spectacular. I listened to the audio book, and the readers were fantastic. I especially loved the story about the substitute teacher. That's how I'd teach and is the reason I am NOT a teacher! Fantastic stories by David Sedaris' favorite authors."
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Amy (4 out of 5 stars)
About David Sedaris
David Sedaris is the author of a dozen books, including four that made the #1 New York Times bestsellers list. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. In 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, Jonathan Swift International Literature Prize for Satire and Humor, and the Terry Southern Prize for Humor.
About the Narrators
Cherry Jones is an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator who has won an AudioFile Earphones Award and twice been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration, in 2001 and 2005. She is also well known as a premiere theater actress and winner of a Tony Award. She has acted in numerous television shows, and her film roles include Erin Brockovich, The Perfect Storm, and M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs.
Mary-Louise Parker is a Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe award-winning actress. Her writing has appeared in Esquire, The Riveter, Bust, and Bullet.
Akhil
Sharma, author and narrator, was born in Delhi, India, and moved to the United States, where he attended
Princeton and Harvard Law School. After graduation in 1992, he spent a year as
a Wallace Stegner fellow in fiction at Stanford. His novel, An Obedient Father, won the 2001 PEN/Hemingway
Award and the Whiting Writers’ Award. His short stories have been published in
the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and The Best
American Short Stories. His short story “Cosmopolitan” was anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1998 and
in 2003 was made into an acclaimed film of the same name. He has also worked as
a screenwriter for television and film, and his book narrations include David Sedaris' Children Playing before a Statue of Hercules. He works as an investment banker in
New York.
Toby
Wherry is a narrator and stage and film actor who has appeared on stage at the
Lincoln Center in New York, the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, and elsewhere. He
played Doctor Cartwright in the 2012 short film of Edgar Allan Poe’s Berenice and contributed to the comedy “Man
in the Flying Lawn Chair” that was a winner of the Edinburgh Festival’s Best of
the Fringe award. His narrations include a short story in David Sedaris’ collection
Children Playing before a Statue of
Hercules.