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Still Life with Bread Crumbs

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Still Life with Bread Crumbs

By: Anna Quindlen
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
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A superb love story from the number-one New York Times best-selling author Anna Quindlen

Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.

Brilliantly written, powerfully observed, Still Life with Bread Crumbs is a deeply moving and often very funny story of unexpected love, and a stunningly crafted journey into the life of a woman, her heart, her mind, her days, as she discovers that life is a story with many levels, a story that is longer and more exciting than she ever imagined.

©2014 Anna Quindlen (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, Inc. Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction Heartfelt Funny

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"Carrington MacDuffie's rich voice is a perfect match for Quindlen's exquisite story.... [her] natural style and subtle character voices add even more charm to the story, keeping the listener engaged from start to finish." ( AudioFile)
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Sadly, I struggled through this book. I found it quite dreary and slow. Rebecca Winter, the main character was irritating and I couldn’t engage with her or her experience.

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