A Certain Age: A Novel

by Beatriz Williams

Overview

A reinterpretation of Richard Strauss's comic opera Der Rosenkavalier set in Jazz Age New York.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062404961
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	01/03/2017
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Beatriz Williams is the bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Her Last Flight, The Summer Wives, and The Golden Hour, as well as All the Ways We Said Goodbye, cowritten with Lauren Willig and Karen White. A native of Seattle, she graduated from Stanford University and earned an MBA in finance from Columbia University. She lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore, where she divides her time between writing and laundry.

Editorial Reviews

01/01/2016
Tap dancing in on the heels of Williams's latest, LibraryReads pick Along the Infinite Sea, this Jazz Age story opens with glamorous Mrs. Theresa Marshall actually (shockingly) falling in love with her young lover, World War I aviator hero Octavian Rofrano. What follows is an update of Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier.

Library Journal

Beatriz Williams returns to the fertile ground of early-twentieth- century New York high society. There are two main characters from whose points of view the story is told, Theresa and Sophie, whose sections are narrated by Mia Barron and Adrienne Rusk. In Barron's exceptional narration, she delivers the exact right attitude for Theresa, both brash and somewhat vulnerable. In contrast, Rusk's portrayal of Sophie is, by and large, so dry and emotionless that it significantly slows the book down or discourages listening altogether. Narrator Barbara Goodson also has a small but well-done part as a gossip columnist who serves to move the story forward. J.L.K. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine

AUGUST 2016 - AudioFile

Beatriz Williams returns to the fertile ground of early-twentieth- century New York high society. There are two main characters from whose points of view the story is told, Theresa and Sophie, whose sections are narrated by Mia Barron and Adrienne Rusk. In Barron's exceptional narration, she delivers the exact right attitude for Theresa, both brash and somewhat vulnerable. In contrast, Rusk's portrayal of Sophie is, by and large, so dry and emotionless that it significantly slows the book down or discourages listening altogether. Narrator Barbara Goodson also has a small but well-done part as a gossip columnist who serves to move the story forward. J.L.K. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine

AUGUST 2016 - AudioFile