The Rope Walk, Carrie Brown
The Rope Walk, Carrie Brown
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The Rope Walk

Author: Carrie Brown

Narrator: Elaina Erika Davis

Unabridged: 10 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/01/2007

Synopsis

At her tenth birthday party in the garden of her Vermont village home, Alice meets two people unlike any she's known before: Theo is a mixed-race New York City kid visiting his white grandparents for the summer; Kenneth is a cosmopolitan artist with AIDS who has come home to convalesce. Alice and Theo form an instant bond and almost as quickly find themselves drawn into the orbit of the magisterial artist. But Kenneth is losing his eyesight, and when Alice and Theo begin reading aloud to him from the journals of Lewis and Clark, they decide to embark on a wilderness adventure of their own—with unexpected results.

About Carrie Brown

Carrie Brown is the author of a number of novels and short story collections. She has won many awards for her work, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her novel Confinement won the Library of Virginia Book Award. She lives in Virginia with her husband, novelist John Gregory Brown, and their three children.

About Elaina Erika Davis

Elaina Erika Davis has appeared in several Off-Broadway productions, including Red, Secret History of the Lower Eastside, and Troilus & Cressida, as well as on numerous television series, including The Guiding Light, All My Children, and Law & Order. She has narrated such notable audio books as Memoirs of a Geisha and Kira-Kira. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Book Concierge on June 26, 2016

Book on CD narrated by Elaina Erica Davis. This coming-of-age novel opens on Memorial Day. Alice McCauley is the youngest child, having five older brothers who dote on and protect her. Her father is a Shakespeare scholar at the local college; her mother died when Alice was a baby. On the morning of h......more

Goodreads review by Suzy on June 07, 2010

Carrie Brown is such a fabulous writer. Every sentence is so perfected. And the story as a whole is--as I try to think of what to say here, I am actually forming my hands into the shape of a snow globe--as if I were carefully holding a beautiful, fragile thing. That is what Carrie Brown's story is.......more

Goodreads review by Mind the Book on July 04, 2015

You had me at "...coming-of-age during a crucial summer in New England". Trots detta infann sig visst initialt tvivel: men hallå, jag gillar ju inte att läsa om b a r n! men åh, så mycket anspråksfullt, platskrävande bildspråk och så lååånga kapitel! On her windowsill, Alice waited, watching. The ful......more

Goodreads review by Karen on July 12, 2008

Finished this one awhile back. It's a slow start but a good read. As the main character (whose name is now totally forgotten to me) turns ten, she experiences a summer that changes her life and brings her out of innocence and into a painful understanding of the complexities of the world. Two strang......more

Goodreads review by Jane on July 04, 2011

An "assigned" book for me, as our book club is to discuss this later in the month. Because most of the action takes place during the summer, this is a good season in which to read it. In the small Vermont town of Grange, Alice, the protagonist, is celebrating her 10th birthday as the book opens. And......more

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