The Dinner Party

Name: The Dinner Party
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Howard Fast
ISBN: 9781423372134

Author: Howard Fast

Narrator: Roger Dressler, Norma Brink, Tom Casaletto, Paul Dreher, J. C. Howe, Gladys Long, Dorothy Powell, Ron Savage, Jan Simpson, Kitty Carpenter, Rick Dean, Lynn Foote, Pamela Klein, Saxon-Farris Page, Gene Proctor, Rose Anne Shansky

Unabridged: 5 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 08/01/2008

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Howard Fast has placed the entire action of this highly charged novel in the space of one day at the substantial home of a prominent United States senator. This dinner party sounds like a well-ordered and gracious affair, but as events unfold, there are things to be settled - some are political and ethical, some are emotional, and some are questions of life and death. This is a profound and important novel with the dramatic intensity of first class theater.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Charles

My first time reading a Howard Fast novel. Since the novel was published in 1985 and the story pretty clearly reflects the thinking of the time regarding heavy topics like homosexuality and AIDS it is a bit dated. Still, I kept waiting for something dramatic to happen which never seemed to occur. Mi......more

Goodreads review by Maureen

A Senator and his wife and two children give a very fancy dinner party with some very influential people. The Senator and his son have never had a close relationship. What evolves at this dinner party is a relationship with his son that was never expected. I found this book a little difficult to fol......more