-
This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance
- Narrado por: Susan Boyce
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
No se pudo agregar al carrito
Add to Cart failed.
Error al Agregar a Lista de Deseos.
Error al eliminar de la lista de deseos.
Error al añadir a tu biblioteca
Error al seguir el podcast
Error al dejar de seguir el podcast
![Prime logotipo](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/Audible/Homestead/Prime_Logo_RGB.png)
Compra ahora por $21.49
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Grandes primeros Títulos
![An Ambush of Widows Audiolibro Por Jeff Abbott arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51AT8VH8rUS._SL240_.jpg)
![Where the Forest Meets the Stars Audiolibro Por Glendy Vanderah arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51icwKEZxoL._SL240_.jpg)
![Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Audiolibro Por Gail Honeyman arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/413XS+HZuML._SL240_.jpg)
![Olive, Again (Oprah's Book Club) Audiolibro Por Elizabeth Strout arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51bSWUWPmPL._SL240_.jpg)
![Hester Audiolibro Por Laurie Lico Albanese arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51S7bTr9rxL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell Audiolibro Por Robert Dugoni arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51LwjbuJcRL._SL240_.jpg)
![This Is How It Always Is Audiolibro Por Laurie Frankel arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51M+KkomJCL._SL240_.jpg)
![Three Sisters, Three Queens Audiolibro Por Philippa Gregory arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61d9isCnEaL._SL240_.jpg)
![America's First Daughter Audiolibro Por Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61FwqB4xuRL._SL240_.jpg)
![When Never Comes Audiolibro Por Barbara Davis arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51jhIj8+NrL._SL240_.jpg)
![Country Audiolibro Por Danielle Steel arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/512GNWSSpJL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper Audiolibro Por Phaedra Patrick arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61BbLIxJMnL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Audiolibro Por Ayana Mathis arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51fhGbrgEGL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Aviator's Wife Audiolibro Por Melanie Benjamin arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51iTCPbNIKL._SL240_.jpg)
![Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties Audiolibro Por Camille Pagán arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51yATj6dy8L._SL240_.jpg)
![Small World Audiolibro Por Jonathan Evison arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51H4wnDUv-L._SL240_.jpg)
![What Alice Forgot Audiolibro Por Liane Moriarty arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51zyJVz5KkL._SL240_.jpg)
![Lawn Boy Audiolibro Por Jonathan Evison arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61hvaZilysL._SL240_.jpg)
![I Am Livia Audiolibro Por Phyllis T. Smith arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61Cmp8ocvmL._SL240_.jpg)
![Ain't She Sweet? Audiolibro Por Susan Elizabeth Phillips arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51bjekjqWoL._SL240_.jpg)
![We Need to Talk About Kevin Audiolibro Por Lionel Shriver arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51vW1CW0PIL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Corrections Audiolibro Por Jonathan Franzen arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51n4b5InUYL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Obituary Writer Audiolibro Por Ann Hood arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51TgxGf-BrL._SL240_.jpg)
![Inheriting Edith Audiolibro Por Zoe Fishman arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51N5OPE8NNL._SL240_.jpg)
![Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind Audiolibro Por Ann B. Ross arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/410bXd3udVL._SL240_.jpg)
![A Family Affair Audiolibro Por Mary Campisi arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51s4scqzvHL._SL240_.jpg)
![He Knew He Was Right Audiolibro Por Anthony Trollope arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/514mS2EgfcL._SL240_.jpg)
![Autumn Duchess Audiolibro Por Lucinda Brant arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61vcJhT3UdL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Captain's Daughter Audiolibro Por Meg Mitchell Moore arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41iVuQp-TYL._SL240_.jpg)
![The Apothecary's Daughter Audiolibro Por Charlotte Betts arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61LsLif0i9L._SL240_.jpg)
Resumen del Editor
With her husband Bernard two years in the grave, seventy-nine-year-old Harriet Chance sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise only to discover through a series of revelations that she's been living the past sixty years of her life under entirely false pretenses. There, amid the buffets and lounge singers, between the imagined appearance of her late husband and the very real arrival of her estranged daughter midway through the cruise, Harriet is forced to take a long look back, confronting the truth about pivotal events that changed the course of her life.
Jonathan Evison - bestselling author of West of Here, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, and All About Lulu - has crafted a bighearted novel with a supremely endearing heroine at its center. Through Harriet, he paints a bittersweet portrait of a postmodern everywoman with great warmth, humanity, and humor. Part dysfunctional love story, part poignant exploration of the mother/daughter relationship, nothing is what it seems in this tale of acceptance, reexamination, forgiveness, and, ultimately, healing. It is sure to appeal to admirers of Evison's previous work, as well as fans of such writers as Meg Wolitzer, Junot Diaz, and Karen Joy.
Reseñas de la Crítica
Relacionado con este tema
-
Inheriting Edith
- A Novel
- De: Zoe Fishman
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
For years Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in the glittering homes of wealthy New York City clients, scrubbing, dusting, mopping, and doing all she can to keep her head above water as a single mother. Everything changes when a former employer dies, leaving Maggie a staggering inheritance - a house in Sag Harbor. The catch? It comes with an inhabitant: the deceased's 82-year old mother, Edith.
-
-
Narrator is distracting.
- De Onelove en 05-13-20
De: Zoe Fishman
-
Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
- De: Jonathan Evison
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Benjamin Benjamin has lost virtually everything - his wife, his family, his home, his livelihood. With few options, Ben enrolls in a night class called The Fundamentals of Caregiving taught in the basement of a local church. There Ben is instructed in the art of inserting catheters and avoiding liability and how to keep physical and emotional distance between client and provider. But when Ben is assigned to 19-year-old Trev, he discovers that the endless mnemonics and service plan checklists have done little to prepare him.
-
-
Unlike!
- De Pamela Harvey en 01-02-13
De: Jonathan Evison
-
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
- De: Janelle Brown
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
A smart, comic pause-resister about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer from the author of Watch Me Disappear and Pretty Things. When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for - until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune.
-
-
The Perfect Life Ain't So Perfect
- De Theresa en 12-28-08
De: Janelle Brown
-
Plantation
- A Lowcountry Tale
- De: Dorothea Benton Frank
- Narrado por: Susie Breck
- Duración: 6 h y 2 m
- Versión resumida
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When Caroline Wimbley Levine learns that her mother, Miss Lavinia, has supposedly gone mad, she leaves the big city bustle of Manhattan and returns to Tall Pines Plantation. Caroline originally left Tall Pines to escape her feisty, eccentric mother and her drunken brother, Trip. When Miss Lavinia dies, Caroline is forced to come to terms with her family's troubled history as well as her failing relationship with her husband.
-
-
Abridged!!
- De Teresa en 04-18-16
-
Some Women
- De: Emily Liebert
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Annabel Ford has everything under control, devoting her time to her twin boys and keeping her household running smoothly. But when her husband of a decade announces that he's leaving, she's blindsided. And suddenly her world begins to unravel. Piper Whitley has always done her best to balance it all - raising her daughter, Fern, by herself while advancing her career as a crime reporter. Only now that she's finally met the man of her dreams, Fern's absentee father shows up, throwing everything into a tailspin.
-
-
Great Book!!
- De femmefatale en 01-12-23
De: Emily Liebert
-
Ain't She Sweet?
- De: Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The girl everybody loves to hate has returned to the town she'd sworn to leave behind forever. As the rich, spoiled princess of Parrish, Mississippi, Sugar Beth Carey had broken hearts, ruined friendships, and destroyed reputations. But 15 years have passed, and now she's come home - broke, desperate, and too proud to show it. The people of Parrish don't believe in forgive and forget. But none of them have reckoned on the unexpected strength of a woman who's learned survival the hard way.
-
-
wonderfully read
- De older reader en 06-14-20
-
Inheriting Edith
- A Novel
- De: Zoe Fishman
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
For years Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in the glittering homes of wealthy New York City clients, scrubbing, dusting, mopping, and doing all she can to keep her head above water as a single mother. Everything changes when a former employer dies, leaving Maggie a staggering inheritance - a house in Sag Harbor. The catch? It comes with an inhabitant: the deceased's 82-year old mother, Edith.
-
-
Narrator is distracting.
- De Onelove en 05-13-20
De: Zoe Fishman
-
Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
- De: Jonathan Evison
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Benjamin Benjamin has lost virtually everything - his wife, his family, his home, his livelihood. With few options, Ben enrolls in a night class called The Fundamentals of Caregiving taught in the basement of a local church. There Ben is instructed in the art of inserting catheters and avoiding liability and how to keep physical and emotional distance between client and provider. But when Ben is assigned to 19-year-old Trev, he discovers that the endless mnemonics and service plan checklists have done little to prepare him.
-
-
Unlike!
- De Pamela Harvey en 01-02-13
De: Jonathan Evison
-
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
- De: Janelle Brown
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
A smart, comic pause-resister about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer from the author of Watch Me Disappear and Pretty Things. When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for - until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune.
-
-
The Perfect Life Ain't So Perfect
- De Theresa en 12-28-08
De: Janelle Brown
-
Plantation
- A Lowcountry Tale
- De: Dorothea Benton Frank
- Narrado por: Susie Breck
- Duración: 6 h y 2 m
- Versión resumida
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When Caroline Wimbley Levine learns that her mother, Miss Lavinia, has supposedly gone mad, she leaves the big city bustle of Manhattan and returns to Tall Pines Plantation. Caroline originally left Tall Pines to escape her feisty, eccentric mother and her drunken brother, Trip. When Miss Lavinia dies, Caroline is forced to come to terms with her family's troubled history as well as her failing relationship with her husband.
-
-
Abridged!!
- De Teresa en 04-18-16
-
Some Women
- De: Emily Liebert
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Annabel Ford has everything under control, devoting her time to her twin boys and keeping her household running smoothly. But when her husband of a decade announces that he's leaving, she's blindsided. And suddenly her world begins to unravel. Piper Whitley has always done her best to balance it all - raising her daughter, Fern, by herself while advancing her career as a crime reporter. Only now that she's finally met the man of her dreams, Fern's absentee father shows up, throwing everything into a tailspin.
-
-
Great Book!!
- De femmefatale en 01-12-23
De: Emily Liebert
-
Ain't She Sweet?
- De: Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The girl everybody loves to hate has returned to the town she'd sworn to leave behind forever. As the rich, spoiled princess of Parrish, Mississippi, Sugar Beth Carey had broken hearts, ruined friendships, and destroyed reputations. But 15 years have passed, and now she's come home - broke, desperate, and too proud to show it. The people of Parrish don't believe in forgive and forget. But none of them have reckoned on the unexpected strength of a woman who's learned survival the hard way.
-
-
wonderfully read
- De older reader en 06-14-20
-
The Portable Veblen
- De: Elizabeth Mckenzie
- Narrado por: Julia Gibson
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
An exuberant, one-of-a-kind novel about love and family, war and nature, new money and old values by a brilliant New Yorker contributor. The Portable Veblen is a dazzlingly original novel that's as big-hearted as it is laugh-out-loud funny. Set in and around Palo Alto amid the culture clash of new money and old (antiestablishment) values, and with the specter of our current wars looming across its words, The Portable Veblen is an unforgettable look at the way we live now.
-
-
Not what it was cracked up to be
- De Linda en 02-03-16
-
Magnolia Wednesdays
- De: Wendy Wax
- Narrado por: Käthe Mazur
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
At 41, Vivian Armstrong Gray's life as an investigative journalist is crumbling. Humiliated after taking a bullet in her backside during an exposé, Vivi learns that she's pregnant, jobless, and very hormonal. This explains why she says "yes" to a dreadful job covering suburban living back home in Georgia, a column she must write incognito. Down South, it's her sister's ballroom dance studio that becomes her undercover spot where she learns about the local life - and where unexpected friendships develop.
-
-
Painful. And not in a good way.
- De Kate en 01-24-13
De: Wendy Wax
-
Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch
- De: Haywood Smith
- Narrado por: Anne Gartlan
- Duración: 14 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Southern housewife Linwood Breedlove Scott was happily content in her comfortable 30-year marriage, but when her husband cleans out their bank accounts and runs off with a stripper, her life takes a hilarious, yet touching, right turn into reality. With no place to go but home, she's forced back to her eccentric family she escaped by marrying at 19. But despite her newly dependent situation, Lin begins to stand on her own two feet and wake up to the joys - and perils - of life as a single woman.
-
-
Haywood Smith is royal with this book!
- De Dave en 12-09-12
De: Haywood Smith
-
Property
- Stories Between Two Novellas
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Lionel Shriver
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times best-selling author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international best seller We Need to Talk About Kevin.
-
-
Painful and drawn out
- De JR en 06-27-18
De: Lionel Shriver
-
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (Unabridged Selections)
- De: Edited by David Sedaris
- Narrado por: David Sedaris, Mary-Louise Parker, Cherry Jones
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories, some classic, others impending, selected and introduced by David Sedaris.
-
-
Great stories but only 5 of 17 are included
- De Terri Kirk en 07-13-12
-
The SEAL's Christmas Twins
- Operation: Family
- De: Laura Marie Altom
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Navy SEAL Mason Brown left Conifer, Alaska, and his broken marriage behind long ago. Until one call changed everything. His ex-wife has died in a tragic accident, and given custody of her twin baby girls to Mason and her sister Hattie. Hattie Beaumont always dreamed of having a family - and Mason - but never like this. Now those old longings seem like betrayal, especially since playing house with Mason comes naturally. She can tell he feels it, too, so why is he determined to leave? Mason knows Hattie and the girls are the greatest Christmas gift he'll ever get.
-
-
DNF for Ridiculous Plot
- De Rellim en 10-10-19
-
Tryin' To Sleep In the Bed You Made
- De: Virginia DeBerry, Donna Grant
- Narrado por: Fran L. Washington
- Duración: 16 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Gayle was the beauty who believed that a man could make her life complete. Patricia was the intellectual who thought that rising to the top of her career would make her happy. And then there is Marcus Carter, who has been linked to both Gayle and Pat since the tragedy that occurred when they were all children. Can either one save him from himself? Can friends survive a love that comes between them? Each of them gets what she wants, but no one counts on the price they have to pay.
-
-
Better with each chapter!
- De Cyn B. en 02-09-16
De: Virginia DeBerry, y otros
-
Her Sister's Shoes
- De: Ashley Farley
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Samantha Sweeney has always been the glue that holds her family together, their go-to girl for love and support. When an ATV accident leaves her teenage son in a wheelchair, she loses her carefully constructed self-control. In the after-gloom of her dreaded 50th birthday and the discovery of her husband's infidelity, Jackie realizes she must reconnect with her former self to find the happiness she needs to move forward.
-
-
Heartwarming family issues.
- De Schmanet en 07-25-16
De: Ashley Farley
-
The Red Hat Club
- 3 in 1 Contemporary Romantic Novellas
- De: Cynthia Hickey
- Narrado por: April Sugarman
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Now in one volume, you can listen to the escapades of unsuspecting beauties as the ladies of the local Red Hat Club decide to wed them off! One by one, the club takes in a "pink" hat as their special project and finds just the right man, whether the lady realizes it or not.
De: Cynthia Hickey
-
Isle of Palms
- A Lowcountry Tale, Book 3
- De: Dorothea Benton Frank
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 18 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Dorothea Benton Frank is a treasure of American letters with numerous New York Times best-sellers to her credit and a portfolio full of critical acclaim. “Mixing high drama and high jinks” ( Booklist), her third Lowcountry novel follows the fortunes of the dysfunctional Abbot family. Looking to set her life aright, Anna Lutz Abbot returns to her South Carolina lowcountry hometown. And as she attempts to right past wrongs, Anna receives help and support from a quirky cast of lovable locals sure to endear themselves to listeners.
-
-
A feel good story
- De Sheryl en 02-04-13
-
The Daisy Children
- A Novel
- De: Sofia Grant
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When Katie Garrett gets the news that she’s received an inheritance from the grandmother she hardly knew, it couldn’t have come at a better time. She flees Boston and travels to rural Texas. There, she’s greeted by her distant cousin Scarlett. Friendly and flamboyant, Scarlett couldn’t be more different from sensible Katie. And as they begin the task of sorting through their grandmother’s possessions, they discover letters and photographs that uncover the hidden truths about their shared history, and the long-forgotten tragedy of the New London school explosion of 1937 that binds them.
-
-
Multigenerational storyline lacked dignity
- De John F. Oldani, Jr. en 06-07-24
De: Sofia Grant
-
The One-in-a-Million Boy
- De: Monica Wood
- Narrado por: Chris Ciulla
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
For years, guitarist Quinn Porter has been on the road, chasing gig after gig, largely absent to his twice-ex-wife Belle and their odd, Guinness records-obsessed son. When the boy dies suddenly, Quinn seeks forgiveness for his paternal shortcomings by completing the requirements for one of his son's unfinished Boy Scout badges. For seven Saturdays Quinn does yard work for Ona Vitkus, the spry 104-year-old Lithuanian immigrant the boy had visited weekly.
-
-
Loved it
- De Justin en 10-20-16
De: Monica Wood
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance
Calificaciones medias de los clientesReseñas - Selecciona las pestañas a continuación para cambiar el origen de las reseñas.
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- Jacqueline M Cooper
- 09-17-15
Almost perfect
Really enjoyed this book and narration. One little thing...the narrator pronounces Harriet's town incorrectly. Sequim is pronounced like Squim, not "Seaquim". I think it's important to say this correctly.
Otherwise, wonderful!
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 6 personas
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- P. Giorgio
- 09-29-18
All in all remarkably good
The first quarter was mediocre. The long middle was wonderful, the ending was too abrupt
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- Barb
- 09-14-15
A surprising delight
Helen Chance is on an Alaskan cruise that her deceased husband bought (without her knowledge) two years ago. The physical journey is mirrored in the journey through her own life, which we see in flashbacks from the past (in no particular order). She has a chance to make peace with her "prickly" daughter (and, having been an honest, prickly daughter, myself, made me feel better about my relationship with my own mother), to see the truth about her son, her husband, her best friend. I enjoyed both journeys with her and couldn't stop listening to the book. It was *wonderful*. Well-written and an unexpected pleasure. Highly recommended.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 3 personas
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- Michele
- 07-12-16
Reader mispronunciation of local town names
Producer should have made sure the reader knew how to pronounce local town name...after 1 hour the repeated error in local town name proved too much for me. The author tries for unique sentence structures. Once or twice is okay but repeated throughout the first hour of the book made me give up.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- Bobra Tahan
- 09-04-17
Excellent!!!
A wonderful story that made me laugh out loud and cry tears as I reflected on my own life.
You can't go wrong with this read!!
Bobra T
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 1 persona
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- Diane M. Newman
- 02-02-17
wait for it
I enjoyed the book more as the references to the past were given meaning. The end was okay but I thought there would be an epilogue or something explaining why her life was being presented.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Total
- Colleen Dunning
- 10-19-16
Completely Depressing....but good
I enjoy portraits and that's what this is, a portrait of a very typical, average elderly woman. The simple tale leaves you questioning the purpose of her existence and your own. I found Harriet to be quite endearing, as flawed as she may have been.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 2 personas
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- chetyarbrough.blog
- 02-04-17
A CERTAIN AGE
This is a story for those who have reached a certain age. Though written by a man, it is narrated by a woman. In some respects, that is a weakness. Having been written by a man, it may distort the measure of a woman’s life. However, Jonathan Evison offers an excellent representation of what life and death looks like to a man. The mistakes some men make in life are legion, both as a parent and husband.
Evison speculates on an afterlife that says humans either die into nothingness or go to a place of peace and reconciliation. Those are the only options in Evison’s story.
Evison touches every human being’s faults in “This is Your Life, Harriet Chance”. No one is exempt from human failing. Being of a certain age makes Evison’s story enlightening and entertaining. Enlightening because a listener knows they are not alone. Entertaining because a listener will enjoy Evison’s perspective on life’s journey.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 2 personas
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- Sudi
- 10-04-18
Great Character Development :)
The narration is great, too.
Harriet has reached a time in life that is difficult. And it gets more difficult, when the average person thinks complications concerning best friends and husbands (especially dead ones) should be getting easier.
Harriet's husband has died after a trial of care taking by Harriet. She gets surprised by a cruise that her husband arranged before his death.
And then Harriet begins to discover what her life was really all about.
Something, you think, that for most people is already nailed down by the time you have reached your 70s. But not in Harriet Chance's case.
The book is artfully crafted and the plot unfolds at at good pace.
The character development is great and the narrator does a superb job of affecting several age groups and genders.
I give it 5 Stars and an endorsement for anyone who appreciates plot-driven, well written novels.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- Kathy in CA
- 10-02-15
Why I Didn't Like This Story
From the description, it sounded like a fun and fascinating story. The reviews, for the most part, confirmed this. So I dived in. It would be very difficult to explain why I didn't like this book without giving away a few SPOILERS. So, although I will try to minimize them, I can't do this review without a few giveaways. If you are sure you want to try this book, don't read my review.
What I liked:
The whole idea of an older lady going on a cruise and finding out her life was not what she thought it was sounded irresistible. How could a story taking place on a cruise to Alaska not be fun, right? I think the narrator did a perfect job of Harriet's voice and others, for that matter (see What I disliked). The author developed the characters sufficiently and I had a feel for who they were. At no time was I bored or did I consider not finishing the story, no matter what my gripes. It was constructed in such a way to keep the story moving along at an easy to listen to pace.
What I disliked:
What first comes to mind and by far the most annoying to me was the way Harriet ended each reply to any person with "Dear". Yes Dear, No Dear, Yada yada yada, Dear. I could somehow buy it for her daughter--once in a while--but not with every Tom, Dick, and Harry she came across. It must have been used hundreds of times and came to grate on me greatly. Although the author captured the elderly woman voice well, it made Harriet sound like a boring, polyester-wearing, tiny-white-tennies type of character to me. She was not for a minute fun-loving, quirky, admirable, or at all likable to me. She had put up with a stagnant, dead marriage to a detached, shut down husband for tens of years and knew not a thing of her husband's duplicitous ways. (Guess I should acknowledge she suffered a significant hardship over the course of her life, which certainly must have affected her adversely.)
Plus, as the story evolved, you learned why her daughter was such a loser in Harriet's eyes. Could it have been because Harriet always favored her son Skipper and blamed her daughter for the circumstances of her birth, something an innocent child has nothing to do with? You think maybe? If this story made me feel anything, it was sympathy for poor Caroline--and I don't think the author was even aiming for that.
Lastly and as frustrating as the 'Dear' repetition were the writing gimmicks. Every few minutes, the story switched to Harriet at a different age in her life, from baby to most recent, in no chronological order at all, with a sassy narrator briefly summarizing to Harriet what she had been through. In this way, we learned about Harriet's life.
Want more? I didn't like the appearance of Harriet's deceased husband at odd moments on the cruise. It served no purpose, in my opinion, and only succeeded in making Harriet erroneously seem to have dementia as she talked to the apparition.
As you can see, Harriet Chance was not my kind of old lady nor my kind of story. I cannot recommend it.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 14 personas