Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/399215to listen full audiobooks. Title: Actress Author: Anne Enright Narrator: Anne Enright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 3, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.92 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 6 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A brilliant and moving novel about celebrity, sexual power, and a daughter’s search to understand hermother’s hidden truths.Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter, Norah, retraces her mother’s celebrated career andbohemian life, she delves into long-kept secrets, both her mother’s and her own. Katherine began her career onIreland’s bus-and-truck circuit before making it to London’s West End, Broadway, and finally Hollywood. Everymoment of her life is a performance, with young Norah standing in the wings. But the mother-daughter romancecannot survive Katherine’s past or the world’s damage. With age, alcohol, and dimming stardom, Katherine’s grip onreality grows fitful. Fueled by a proud and long-simmering rage, she commits a bizarre crime.As Norah’s role gradually changes to Katherine’s protector, caregiver, and finally legacy-keeper, she revisits hermother’s life of fiercely kept secrets; and Norah reveals in turn the secrets of her own sexual and emotional comingof-age story. Her narrative is shaped by three braided searches—for her father’s identity; for her mother’s motive indonning a Chanel suit one morning and shooting a TV producer in the foot; and her own search for a husband, family,and work she loves.Bringing to life two generations of women with difficult sexual histories, both assaulted and silenced, both finding—or failing to find—their powers of recovery, Actress touches a raw and timely nerve. With virtuosic storytelling and inprose at turns lyrical and knife-sharp, Anne Enright takes readers to the heart of the maddening yet tender love thatbinds a mother and daughter.

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