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Food Fictions

Price: $28.00
Delicious tales about food and eating, read by distinguished actors. Many of the stories included in this three-CD collection were recorded at a Selected Shorts tour to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles in May of 2006. Offering a mix of classic and contemporary fiction, this funny, sensual, delectable collection serves up literary morsels to please every food lover.

"One of the Best Audiobooks of 2007" - AudioFile Magazine

"One of the best Audios of 2007" - Publishers Weekly

M.F.K. Fisher's I Was Really Very Hungry
read by Christina Pickles
A fantasy meal in a French country inn.

T.C. Boyle's Sorry Fugu
read by Tony Roberts
Sex and the restaurant wars.

V.S. Pritchett's Just a Little More
read by Rene Auberjonois
A father’s food memories.

Anton Chekhov's Indigestion
read by Bradley Whitford
A comedy of overindulgence.

Roald Dahl's Taste
read by John Lithgow
A betting game in which a daughter is wagered on the vintage of a bottle of wine.

Damon Runyon's A Piece of Pie
read by John Shea
A gamble on a guy and a doll.

Alice McDermott's Enough
read by Fionnula Flanagan
A woman’s appetite for love and life.

CD only (Three CDs)