Winner ofAudioFile Magazine's Earphones Award for Exceptional Audio Performance
Hilarity, suspense, and high drama are offered up inthe mix of tales of travel to locales familiar and exotic foundon this three-CD compilation from National Public Radio's Selected Shorts. An award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction, the selections areread by distinguished stage and screen actors and recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. Join a father and son on a sailing voyage that goes dangerously awry or retreat to a country estate with the most eccentric hosts imaginable. Featured are stories written by Nadine Gordimer, Joan Didion, and Ring Lardner, among others, and read by suchactors asJoanne Woodward and Bradley Whitford.