

Orchard
Author: Larry Watson
Narrator: George Guidall
Unabridged: 8 hr 26 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 05/02/2008
Categories: Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction
Author: Larry Watson
Narrator: George Guidall
Unabridged: 8 hr 26 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 05/02/2008
Categories: Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction
Larry Watson was born in Rugby, North Dakota and raised in Bismarck. He is the recipient of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, a National Endowment of the Arts award, and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Regional Book Award. Watson teachers English at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Points.
4.5**** From the book jacket - Sonja Skordahl came to America from Norway looking for a new life. Instead, she settled in Door County, Wisconsin, and married Henry House – only to find herself defined by her roles as wife and mother. Destiny lands Sonja in the studio of Ned Weaver, an internationally......more
Orchard takes place in Door County WI. It is the story largely of Henry and Ned. Henry is an orchard owner in love with his wife Sonja and they are suffering through the death of their son while trying to raise their daughter June. Ned is a contemptible but overtly talented artist who abuses those a......more
Boy, what a disappointment. I was very intrigued by the setting, Door County, WI, but it rarely factored into the story aside from the apple orchard. Every once in a while a passage came off as too blunt or graphic and didn't really fit in with the tone for the rest of the book. I had no sympathy or......more