6 hours, 50 minutes • first pub 1934 (editions) user-added
ISBN/UID: 9780698147966
Format: Audio
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Publication date: 19 November 2013
Description
O’Hara did for fictional Gibbsville, Pennsylvania what Faulkner did for Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi: surveyed its social life and drew its psychic outlines, but he did it in utterly worldly terms, without Faulkner’s taste for mythic inferenc...
Community Reviews Summary of 512 reviews
Moods
sad 53%
reflective 46%
emotional 33%
tense 33%
funny 26%
challenging 13%
informative 6%
Pace
fast 18%
slow 12%
Plot- or character-driven?
Character: 80% | A mix: 20%Strong character development?
It's complicated: 53% | Yes: 23% | No: 15% | N/A: 7%Loveable characters?
No: 50% | It's complicated: 42% | N/A: 7%Diverse cast of characters?
No: 91% | Yes: 8%Flaws of characters a main focus?
Yes: 92% | No: 7%Average rating
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Infidelity6 hours, 50 minutes • first pub 1934 (editions) user-added
ISBN/UID: 9780698147966
Format: Audio
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Publication date: 19 November 2013
Description
O’Hara did for fictional Gibbsville, Pennsylvania what Faulkner did for Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi: surveyed its social life and drew its psychic outlines, but he did it in utterly worldly terms, without Faulkner’s taste for mythic inferenc...
Community Reviews Summary of 512 reviews
Moods
sad 53%
reflective 46%
emotional 33%
tense 33%
funny 26%
challenging 13%
informative 6%
Pace
fast 18%
slow 12%
Plot- or character-driven?
Character: 80% | A mix: 20%Strong character development?
It's complicated: 53% | Yes: 23% | No: 15% | N/A: 7%Loveable characters?
No: 50% | It's complicated: 42% | N/A: 7%Diverse cast of characters?
No: 91% | Yes: 8%Flaws of characters a main focus?
Yes: 92% | No: 7%Average rating
Content Warnings
Submitted by users as part of their reviews
Graphic
SuicideMinor
Infidelity