Other People, Sol Stein
Other People, Sol Stein
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Other People

Author: Sol Stein

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Unabridged: 10 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/24/2005


Synopsis

Three very different men are in love with the same woman, Francine Widmer. Francine, twentyseven, beautiful, intelligent, and resourceful, insists on running her own life. Suddenly, control of Francines life falls apart when she is raped and she finds that the doctors and the police are indifferent to the enormity of the crime. Francine wants revenge, and she selects as her instrument the best criminal lawyer in the country. The result is a triumphant story about the true source of lifes problems and opportunities: other people.

About Sol Stein

Sol Stein (1926–2019) was a writer, editor, poet, publisher, teacher, and prizewinning playwright who was produced on Broadway. He and his wife founded the publishing company Stein and Day in 1966 and worked with such well-known authors as James Baldwin, Elia Kazan, George Orwell, and Lionel Trilling, some of the most successful writers of the century. Stein authored nine novels, four works of nonfiction, and three plays and screenplays, as well as the computer programs WritePro®, FictionMaster®, and FirstAid for Writers®.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sam on September 26, 2020

Using different characters to tell the story reminded me of when I first came across the narrative device in an HH Kirst crime novel. HH's however wasn't of rape, this was, and told in every precise and unforgiving brutish detail. Sol Stein's clinical depiction of rape, the sense of uncouth entitlem......more

Goodreads review by Lady on June 16, 2023

This was a great and interesting story that I found on libby. I listened to the audiobook and liked the narrator's. I actually rated it 3.5 stars 🌟.......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on June 24, 2015

Exact in its execution of craft. The plot propelled by multiple points of view from the first person. Insightful and probing into justice, evil, love, lust, jealousy, despair. Three men loving the same woman in three separate ways: as father, as lover, as patient and unobtainable. This book takes a......more

Goodreads review by Antonella Imperiali on January 20, 2016

In Italia: GLI ALTRI......more

Goodreads review by Lisa Weber on October 25, 2013

Odd. Very 70's. quite disgusting at times. But interesting.......more