Picture Palace Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art

Picture Palace

A Novel

Preview

Audible Standard 30-day free trial

Try Standard free
Select 1 audiobook a month from our entire collection of titles.
Yours as long as you’re a member.
Get unlimited access to bingeable podcasts.
Standard auto renews for $8.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Picture Palace

By: Paul Theroux
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Try Standard free

$8.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $29.69

Buy for $29.69

“Never a dull moment . . . Vivid and deft.” — New York Review of Books

Maude Pratt is a legend, a photographer famous for her cutting-edge techniques and uncanny ability to strip away the masks of the world’s most recognizable celebrities and luminaries. Now in her seventies, Maude has been in the public eye since the 1920s, and her unparalleled portfolio includes intimate portraits of Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, and Picasso. While Maude possesses a singular capability to expose the inner lives of her subjects, she is obsessive about protecting her own, hiding her deepest secret in the “picture palace” of her memory. But when a young archivist comes to stay in Maude’s Cape Cod home and begins sorting through her fifty years of work, Maude is forced to face her past and come to terms, at last, with the tragedies she’s buried.

“A breathtaking tale . . . Intangibly, intricately brilliant.” — Telegraph (UK)
Literary Fiction Psychological Genre Fiction Women's Fiction

People who viewed this also viewed...

Blinding Light Audiobook By Paul Theroux cover art
Blinding Light By: Paul Theroux
No reviews yet