Cassandra at the Wedding, Dorothy Baker
Cassandra at the Wedding, Dorothy Baker
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Cassandra at the Wedding

Author: Dorothy Baker

Narrator: Morgan Hallett

Unabridged: 7 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/30/2018

Categories: Fiction, Romance


Synopsis

Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding. Dorothy Baker's entrancing tragicomic novella follows an unpredictable course of events in which her heroine appears variously as conniving, self-aware, pitiful, frenzied, absurd, and heartbroken-at once utterly impossible and tremendously sympathetic. As she struggles to come to terms with the only life she has, Cassandra reckons with her complicated feelings about the sister who she feels owes it to her to be her alter ego; with her father, a brandy-soaked retired professor of philosophy; and with the ghost of her dead mother. First published in 1962, Cassandra at the Wedding is a book of enduring freshness, insight, and verve. Like the fiction of Jeffrey Eugenides and Jhumpa Lahiri, it is the work of a master stylist with a profound understanding of the complexities of the heart and mind.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on April 18, 2023

Dorothy Baker is an underrated talent, a writer I'd not read before this. Cassandra at the Wedding is a brilliant example of things like voice and craft. Cass's voice is so powerful and unique (Judith's too, when it comes), and the whole thing is perfectly constructed, both structurally and on the s......more

Goodreads review by frankie on April 16, 2025

i fear this book had a genius to it that went over my head and i wish i could have fully appreciated it. 4.5......more

Goodreads review by Katie on December 11, 2020

What a book. Just incredible - beautifully written, clever, poignant, witty and so atmospheric. I highly recommend.......more