

An Available Man
A Novel
Author: Hilma Wolitzer
Narrator: Fred Sullivan
Unabridged: 7 hr 50 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 02/14/2012
Categories: Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction
Author: Hilma Wolitzer
Narrator: Fred Sullivan
Unabridged: 7 hr 50 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 02/14/2012
Categories: Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction
Hilma Wolitzer is the author of several novels, including Hearts, Ending, and Tunnel of Love. She is the recipient of Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers Award. She has taught at the University of Iowa, New York University, and Columbia University. She lives in New York City.
Fred Sullivan is an actor and an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. He has played over one hundred roles as an award-winning resident actor at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island. He is resident director at Gamm Theatre and teaches acting at the Rhode Island School of Design.
I was introduced to Hilma Wolitzer's work through her new anthology of short stories Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket and chose to read An Available Man because it was her next most recent book (2012). I really enjoyed it, but it makes me even more eager to see her next book, now that W......more
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“This is a book to savor page by page, filled with astute detail, both comic and mournful, about what it’s like to be middle-aged and lonely yet not to give up on the search for love.” Julia Glass, National Book Award winner
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