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• Commended for Audies (Narration (Female)) 2016

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A tender-hearted excavation of [Oates'] hardscrabble early life...In sharing with us the lost landscape of her childhood, she has ensured it will never be forgotten. -- ""O, The Oprah Magazine"" Cassandra Campbell's beautifully expressive performance captures the emotional depth of these loosely interlocked essays...Using a conversational, almost storytelling, style, Campbell creates a welcome intimacy between the listener and Oates's carefully crafted prose. Wiinner of the AudioFile Earphones Award. -- ""AudioFile"" Glimpses of the iconic writer's youth...A tender, often moving evocation of the physical and emotional landscapes that have shaped her...Warmly, gently told. -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" In her new memoir following in the wake of the bestselling A Widow's Story, Oates reflects with piquant wit, startling frankness, and mesmerizing specificity on the aspects of her life that made her a writer...Generous in her personal disclosures in this graceful and bracing chronicle, Oates also considers the writer's calling and the necessity and resonance of sympathy. -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" Oates perfectly captures the unique confusion of childhood, brought on by the unsatisfying explanations of adults. -- ""Elle"" Oates writes about her formative years with clear vision. -- ""Library Journal"" The essays...range stylistically, but when Oates falls into her narrative strengths-an alert eye for detail, an atmosphere suffused with dread and apprehension, an enormous sympathy for her characters-the pieces become stunning...Varied, kaleidoscopic, and ultimately insightful. -- ""Publishers Weekly""

Oates writes about her formative years with clear vision. -- Library Journal Cassandra Campbell's beautifully expressive performance captures the emotional depth of these loosely interlocked essays...Using a conversational, almost storytelling, style, Campbell creates a welcome intimacy between the listener and Oates's carefully crafted prose. Wiinner of the AudioFile Earphones Award. -- AudioFile A tender-hearted excavation of [Oates'] hardscrabble early life...In sharing with us the lost landscape of her childhood, she has ensured it will never be forgotten. -- O, The Oprah Magazine Glimpses of the iconic writer's youth...A tender, often moving evocation of the physical and emotional landscapes that have shaped her...Warmly, gently told. -- Kirkus Reviews The essays...range stylistically, but when Oates falls into her narrative strengths-an alert eye for detail, an atmosphere suffused with dread and apprehension, an enormous sympathy for her characters-the pieces become stunning...Varied, kaleidoscopic, and ultimately insightful. -- Publishers Weekly In her new memoir following in the wake of the bestselling A Widow's Story, Oates reflects with piquant wit, startling frankness, and mesmerizing specificity on the aspects of her life that made her a writer...Generous in her personal disclosures in this graceful and bracing chronicle, Oates also considers the writer's calling and the necessity and resonance of sympathy. -- Booklist (starred review) Oates perfectly captures the unique confusion of childhood, brought on by the unsatisfying explanations of adults. -- Elle

Oates writes about her formative years with clear vision. -- Library Journal Glimpses of the iconic writer's youth...A tender, often moving evocation of the physical and emotional landscapes that have shaped her...Warmly, gently told. -- Kirkus Reviews The essays...range stylistically, but when Oates falls into her narrative strengths-an alert eye for detail, an atmosphere suffused with dread and apprehension, an enormous sympathy for her characters-the pieces become stunning...Varied, kaleidoscopic, and ultimately insightful. -- Publishers Weekly Cassandra Campbell's beautifully expressive performance captures the emotional depth of these loosely interlocked essays...Using a conversational, almost storytelling, style, Campbell creates a welcome intimacy between the listener and Oates's carefully crafted prose. Wiinner of the AudioFile Earphones Award. -- AudioFile In her new memoir following in the wake of the bestselling A Widow's Story, Oates reflects with piquant wit, startling frankness, and mesmerizing specificity on the aspects of her life that made her a writer...Generous in her personal disclosures in this graceful and bracing chronicle, Oates also considers the writer's calling and the necessity and resonance of sympathy. -- Booklist (starred review) Oates perfectly captures the unique confusion of childhood, brought on by the unsatisfying explanations of adults. -- Elle A tender-hearted excavation of [Oates'] hardscrabble early life...In sharing with us the lost landscape of her childhood, she has ensured it will never be forgotten. -- O, The Oprah Magazine

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Joyce Carol Oates is an award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, short stories, plays, and novellas. She is the 2019 recipient of the $10,000 Jerusalem Prize, given to international writers whose body of work assert the freedom of the individual in society. She is also a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, among other major awards. Original bio sent from Cassandra: Cassandra Campbell began doing voice overs as the voice for Calvin Klein's Italian commercials. This was followed by commercial and documentary recording in both English and Italian. She has recorded many audiobooks and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as an Audie(R) Award nomination. As an actress and director, she has worked at the Public, the Mint, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stagewest, Theatreworks, the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Millmountain Theatre, the National Shakespeare Company, and the New York Fringe Festival.

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