The Wharton Plot opens with famed author, Edith Wharton, playing a game of negotiation chess with her publisher over lunch, when a young novelist that “sells well” enters the restaurant in old New York with a chrysanthemum in his lapel and challenges Edith’s ideas of story and what real women are like.
That scene sets our gilded age heroine on a journey to find her next project, her personal next chapter, and a murderer as well.
Fredericks does a marvelous job showing both the rivalry and camaraderie of authors and how Wharton and her circle evolve during this time period, as the old guard and their monuments begin to disappear, and crafts a mystery that keeps the reader or listener guessing.
I will not hold the fact that I didn’t really enjoy listening to The Wharton Plot – my first full-length audiobook – against the author or the book or the narrator. I’ve listened and been moved by NPR Radio’s Selected Shorts but I just didn’t have much patience listening to this novel-length work.
I do, however, highly recommend reading The Wharton Plot. I wish I had. I received this advanced reader audio copy of The Wharton Plot from Dreamscape Media, courtesy of NetGalley.
Order online or buy now at your favorite independent bookstore. Mine is Sellers Books and Art in Jim Thorpe, PA.
That scene sets our gilded age heroine on a journey to find her next project, her personal next chapter, and a murderer as well.
Fredericks does a marvelous job showing both the rivalry and camaraderie of authors and how Wharton and her circle evolve during this time period, as the old guard and their monuments begin to disappear, and crafts a mystery that keeps the reader or listener guessing.
I will not hold the fact that I didn’t really enjoy listening to The Wharton Plot – my first full-length audiobook – against the author or the book or the narrator. I’ve listened and been moved by NPR Radio’s Selected Shorts but I just didn’t have much patience listening to this novel-length work.
I do, however, highly recommend reading The Wharton Plot. I wish I had. I received this advanced reader audio copy of The Wharton Plot from Dreamscape Media, courtesy of NetGalley.
Order online or buy now at your favorite independent bookstore. Mine is Sellers Books and Art in Jim Thorpe, PA.