State of Wonder by Ann Patchett audiobook

State of Wonder: A Novel

By Ann Patchett
Read by Hope Davis

HarperAudio

Unabridged

Format : CD (In Stock)
  • 1 Format: CD

  • ISBN: 9780062119247

Runtime: 12.36 Hours
Category: Fiction/Literary
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

Winner of the 2012 Audie Award

Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award

Shortlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction

A 2011 Time Magazine Top 10 Book for Fiction

A USA Today bestseller

A 2011 Washington Post Best Book for Fiction

A 2011 NPR Best Book for Fiction

Finalist for the 2011 Wellcome Trust Book Prize for Fiction

Selected for the June 2011 Indie Next List

A 2011 Barnes & Noble Best Book for Fiction

An Amazon Best Books of the Year in 2011 for Fiction

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, June 2011

A 2011 Publishers Weekly Best Book for Fiction

The #1 BookPage Best Book of 2011

A Bookpage Most Anticipated Book of 2011

One of Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Book in 2011 for Fiction

“A nail-biting narrative, setting stark human dilemmas against a lush, exotic backdrop.”— People

“Extraordinary. . . . Nothing is as it seems, and the ending is as shocking as it’s satisfying.” — Boston Globe

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest

In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific miracles, and spiritual transformations, State of Wonder presents a world of stunning surprise and danger, rich in emotional resonance and moral complexity.

As Dr. Marina Singh embarks upon an uncertain odyssey into the insect-infested Amazon, she's forced to surrender herself to the lush but forbidding world that awaits within the jungle. Charged with finding her former mentor Dr. Annick Swenson, a researcher who has disappeared while working on a valuable new drug, she will have to confront her own memories of tragedy and sacrifice as she journeys into the unforgiving heart of darkness.

Stirring and luminous, State of Wonder is a world unto itself, where unlikely beauty stands beside unimaginable loss beneath the rain forest's jeweled canopy. Patchett delivers a gripping adventure story and a profound look at the difficult choices we make in the name of discovery and love.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Outlandishly entertaining…[with] a brilliantly constructed plot.” —Elle
“The large canvas of sweeping moral issues, both personal and global, comes to life through careful attention to details, however seemingly mundane—from ill-fitting shoes and mosquito bites to a woman tenderly braiding another woman’s hair.”  —O, the Oprah Magazine 
“A superbly rendered novel…Patchett’s portrayal is as wonderful as it is frightening and foreign. Patchett exhibits an extraordinary ability to bring the horrors and the wonders of the Amazon jungle to life, and her singular characters are wonderfully drawn…Powerful and captivating.” —Library Journal (starred review)
“A spellbinder from bestselling author Patchett. . . . Thrilling, disturbing, and moving in equal measures—even better than Patchett’s breakthrough Bel Canto.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“The audiobook equivalent of ‘couldn’t put it down’ must be ‘couldn’t pause it.’ There was little pause time during this reviewer’s amazing experience of Patchett’s new novel. Hope Davis astutely paces the suspenseful odyssey from a sedate Minnesota pharmaceutical lab to the darkest Amazonian jungle…Davis intuits each of the powerful personas…[and] expresses a vivid vocal range of ages, as well as Australian, German, and Brazilian accents. Patchett’s exquisite prose immerses the listener through the novel’s striking climax, which shatters the jungle’s ferociously guarded mysteries. Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award.” —AudioFile
“A thrilling new novel…The world imagined in this novel is unusually vivid…Reading State of Wonder is a sensory experience, and even after it’s over you’ll keep hearing the sounds of insects and your own head will still be hot.” —More magazine
“Emotionally lucid…Patchett is at her lyrical best when she catalogues the jungle.”  —New Yorker
“Packs a textbook’s worth of ethical conundrums into a smart and tidily delivered story…Patchett presents an alluring interplay between civilization and wilderness, between aid and exploitation.” —Wall Street Journal
“An engaging, consummately told tale.” —New York Times
“This is surely the smartest, most exciting novel of the summer.” —Washington Post
“Extraordinary…Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can’t do? . . . Patchett’s last knockout pages proceed full-speed ahead, with more twists and turns and treachery than the Amazon River. Nothing is as it seems, and the ending is as shocking as it’s satisfying.” —Boston Globe
“The Amazon setting is something Patchett does rather marvelously…The book is serious, but also so pleasurable that you hope it won’t end.” —NPR
“Patchett is a master storyteller who has an entertaining habit of dropping ordinary people into extraordinary and exotic circumstances to see what they’re made of. In this expansive page-turner…Patchett’s fluid prose dissolves in the suspense of this out-there adventure, a juggernaut of a trip to the crossroads of science, ethics, and commerce that readers will hate to see end.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Author

Author Bio: Ann Patchett

Author Bio: Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett is the author of #1 New York Times bestselling novels, works of nonfiction, and children’s books. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the PEN/Faulkner, the Women’s Prize in the United Kingdom, and the Book Sense Book of the Year. Her novel The Dutch House was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Time magazine named her one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. President Biden awarded her the National Humanities Medal in recognition of her contributions to American culture. Visit her at annpatchett.com

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Available Formats : CD
Category: Fiction/Literary
Runtime: 12.36
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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