The darkness of Wallis Simpson [sound recording]
Tremain, Rose2017
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Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, ended her life as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone - friend, foe or journalist - to visit her in her Paris flat. Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction. Her thesis is that Wallis, gaga and bed-ridden, has forgotten the king who gave up an empire for love of her. The other stories in this magnificent collection range over a variety of themes, equally original and unexpected. An East German border guard, redundant after the Berlin Wall comes down in 1989, imagines that he might still have a purpose in life: He tries to reach Russia by bicycling across the hostile wastes of Poland. A jilted man gets his revenge. A baby grows wings. A character in an Impressionist painting escapes from his 'frame' - or does he? And there's a Christmas story set in a seedy hotel ...
Main title:
The darkness of Wallis Simpson [sound recording] / Rose Tremain ; read by Gareth Armstrong and Jilly Bond.
Edition:
Unabridged.
Imprint:
[Melbourne, Vic.] : Bolinda/Audible audio, 2017.
Collation:
6 CDs (5 hr., 51 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. ; in container.
Notes:
Duration: 05:51:00.6 audio CDs.
Performers:
Read by Gareth Armstrong and Jilly Bond.
Audience:
Interest age level: Adult.
ISBN:
9781489386458 (tbk.)
Language:
English
BRN:
617715
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