

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
Author: David Sedaris, Tobias Wolff, Akhil Sharma, Charles Baxter, Amy Hempel, Patricia Highsmith
Series: A Meditation on Short Fiction
Narrator: David Sedaris, Cherry Jones, Mary -Louise Parker, Akhil Sharma, Toby Wherry
Unabridged: 2 hr 55 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: 04/04/2005
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Humorous Fiction, Anthologies
Synopsis
David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them memorized. Sometimes he fantasizes that he wrote them. Sometimes, when they’re his very favorite stories, he’ll fantasize about reading them in front of an audience and taking credit for them. The audience in these fantasies always loves him and gives him the respect he deserves.
David Sedaris didn’t write the stories in Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules . But he did read them. And he liked them enough to hand pick them for this collection of short fiction. Featuring such notable writers as Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Jean Thompson, and Tobias Wolff, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules includes some of the most influential and talented short story writers, contemporary and classic.
Perfect for fans who suffer from Sedaris fever, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules will tide them over and provide relief.