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You Are Not a Stranger Here

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You Are Not a Stranger Here

By: Adam Haslett
Narrated by: Steven Crossley, Norman Dietz, James Jenner, Jonathan Todd Ross, Scott Sowers
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In his best-selling and lavishly praised first book of stories, Adam Haslett explores lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. The impact is at once harrowing and thrilling.

An elderly inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. A bereaved boy draws a thuggish classmate into a relationship of escalating guilt and violence. A genteel middle-aged woman, a longtime resident of a psychiatric hospital, becomes the confidante of a lovelorn teenaged volunteer. Told with Chekhovian restraint and compassion, and conveying both the sorrow of life and the courage with which people rise to meet it, You Are Not a Stranger Here is a triumph of storytelling.

©2002 Adam Haslett (P)2014 Recorded Books Anthologies & Short Stories Literary Fiction Short Story Fiction Psychological Genre Fiction Anthologies
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A collection of well written, compelling and sensitive stories. The performances were excellent, well balanced and authentic. A worthwhile collection of short fiction and great writing.

Great performances of sensitive stories

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Not what I choose to listen to. It has psychological and physical violence that I don't find entertaining.

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This is a terrible group of stories – – except for the one about the doctor, which was very touching. I would not recommend it.

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