LOW FLAT RATE AUST-WIDE $9.90 DELIVERY INFO

Close Notification

Your cart does not contain any items

$39.95

Audio

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

QTY:

English
Bolinda/Macmillan Audio
01 November 2015
Anna was a good wife, mostly ...

Anna Benz lives in comfort and affluence with her husband and three young children in Dietlikon, a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Anna, an American expat, has chosen this life far from home; but, despite its tranquility and order, inside she is falling apart.

Feeling adrift and unable to connect with her husband or his family; with the fellow expatriates who try to befriend her; or even, increasingly, her own thoughts and emotions, Anna attempts to assert her agency in the only way that makes sense to her: by engaging in short-lived but intense sexual affairs.

But adultery, too, has its own morality, and when Anna finds herself crossing a line, she will set off a terrible chain of events that ends in unspeakable tragedy. As her life crashes down around her, Anna must then discover where one must go when there is no going back ...

By:  
Producer:  
Read by:  
Imprint:   Bolinda/Macmillan Audio
Country of Publication:   Australia
Edition:   Unabridged edition
ISBN:   9781509811748
ISBN 10:   1509811745
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jill Alexander Essbaum is the author of several collections of poetry and her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, as well as its sister anthology, The Best American Erotic Poems, 1800-Present. She is the winner of the Bakeless Poetry Prize and recipient of two NEA literature fellowships. A member of the core faculty at the University of California, Riverside's Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA program, she lives and writes in Austin, Texas. Marno was born in Los Angeles, and went to boarding school at Phillips Academy in Massachussetts. She received a BA in Comparative Literature from Barnard College, Columbia University and an MFA in Acting at the Yale School of Drama. Marno received rave reviews for the one-woman show Nine Parts of Desire in which she portrayed nine different Middle Eastern women which ran at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre and at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.

See Also