The Doctor's House
Written by Ann Beattie
Narrated by Katherine Kellgren, Suzanne Toren and Jeff Woodman
3/5
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About this audiobook
Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie has been included in five O. Henry Award Collections, in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story. In 2005, she received the Rea Award for the Short Story. The former Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, she is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She and her husband, Lincoln Perry, live in Maine, Virginia, and Florida.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a clever novel of family dysfunction. The "Doctor's house' was ruled by a monster and painful secrets emerge and shift through the varying memories of the wife and two adult children. In this dark tale Ms Beattie still manages to inject humour, irony and wit .