EPISODE · May 19, 2020 · 5 MIN
Paula: A Memoir by Isabel Allende
from Enjoy Amazing Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture · host Jacklyn Fadel
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/418866 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paula: A Memoir Author: Isabel Allende Narrator: Cynthia Farrell, Isabel Allende Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 28 minutes Release date: May 19, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Beautiful and heartrending. . . . Memoir, autobiography, epicedium, perhaps even some fiction: they are all here, and they are all quite wonderful.”—Los Angeles Times In this literary classic, New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende recalls the story of her beloved daughter and her remarkable family’s past. When her daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, Isabel Allende began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. Bizarre ancestors are introduced; delightful and bitter childhood memories are shared; amazing anecdotes of youthful years are relived, and the most intimate secrets are quietly passed along. Like Allende’s first novel, The House of the Spirits, this powerful memoir is infused with the real, the magical, and the spiritual, creating a haunting, sad, and beautiful tale.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/418866 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paula: A Memoir Author: Isabel Allende Narrator: Cynthia Farrell, Isabel Allende Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 28 minutes Release date: May 19, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Beautiful and heartrending. . . . Memoir, autobiography, epicedium, perhaps even some fiction: they are all here, and they are all quite wonderful.”—Los Angeles Times In this literary classic, New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende recalls the story of her beloved daughter and her remarkable family’s past. When her daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, Isabel Allende began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. Bizarre ancestors are introduced; delightful and bitter childhood memories are shared; amazing anecdotes of youthful years are relived, and the most intimate secrets are quietly passed along. Like Allende’s first novel, The House of the Spirits, this powerful memoir is infused with the real, the magical, and the spiritual, creating a haunting, sad, and beautiful tale.
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