Audio Version of Good Morning America's Book Club Pick Available Exclusively At Audible.com.Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2002 THREE JUNES is Newest Selection in the 'Read This' Book Club Series and Latest Download-Only Audible Exclusive "In this dazzling portrait of family life, Glass establishes her literary credentials with ingenuity and panache." - Publishers Weekly Random House Audible, the first imprint founded to produce spoken word audio titles exclusively for digital distribution via Audible.com, announced today that its newest title, Three Junes, is the new Good Morning America's "Read This" book club selection. Three Junes is available now as a download at www.audible.com. Three Junes is a vividly textured symphonic novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. "Thanks to our digital distribution and some very quick work by the production team, Random House Audible was able to get this book recorded and into the store in just a few weeks," said Beth Anderson Beth Anderson is an American neo-romantic composer. She studied with John Cage, Terry Riley, Robert Ashley, and Larry Austin, among others. She was born in Lexington, Kentucky and grew up in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. , vice president and co-publisher of Random House Audible. "In two years of publishing, Random House Audible has consistently demonstrated the strength of digital publishing by producing audio programs that have market relevance and publishing subjects especially appealing to online customers." Elegantly detailed yet full of emotional suspense, Three Junes is a glorious triptych about how we learn to live, and live fully, beyond incurable grief and betrayals of the heart -- how family ties, both those we're born into and those we make, can offer redemption and joy. Love in its limitless forms -- between husband and wife, between lovers, between people and animals, between parents and children -- is the force that moves the characters' lives. About Random House Audible: Random House Audible is the first ever imprint created to produce spoken word audio programs exclusively for digital distribution. Among successful and quick-to-market audio titles published by RHA RHA Residence Hall Association RHA Regional Health Authority RHA Road Haulage Association RHA Rental Housing Association RHA Royal Horse Artillery (a British Regiment) RHA Royal Hibernian Academy are Christina Schwarz's Drowning Ruth, in time for an Oprah book club announcement, Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential and Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation. Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues, Mike Daisey's 21 Dog Years, and Anne Nelson's The Guys were produced shortly after their successful theatrical openings. Random House Audible has successfully published science and technical audiobooks including Alan Deutschman's The Second Coming of Steve Jobs Steve Jobs - Stephen Jobs , John Brockman's The Next Fifty Years, and Jaclyn Easton's Going Wireless. Freed from packaging costs, RHA has also published short works by prestigious authors including Anne Rice, Pete Hamill Pete Hamill (born June 24, 1935) is a prominent American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. He is currently on the staff of The New Yorker. Hamill was born in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn as the oldest of seven children of Catholic immigrants from , Anna Quindlen Anna Quindlen (b. July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist and opinion columnist whose New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. , Paul Krugman Paul Robin Krugman (born February 28, 1953) is an American economist. Krugman, a liberal, is currently a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University. and Myla Goldberg. Other distinguished Random House Audible authors include Calvin Trillin, Gina Kolata, Noah Adams, Larry McMurtry. About the author: Julia Glass was awarded a 2000 New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in fiction writing and has won several prizes for her short stories, including three Nelson Algren Awards and the Tobias Wolff Award. "Collies," the first part of Three Junes, won the 1999 Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Medal for Best Novella novella: see novel. novella Story with a compact and pointed plot, often realistic and satiric in tone. Originating in Italy during the Middle Ages, it was often based on local events; individual tales often were gathered into collections. . She lives with her family in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , where she works as a freelance journalist and editor. About the narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. : John Keating's numerous acting credits include Roundabout Theatre's production of Juno and the Paycock and La Mama ETC's production of Cat and the Moon, as well as various parts with the Irish Repertory Theater and the Irish Arts Center. He is a regular performer with the Independent Shakespeare Company and has appeared in the films The Sensitive Guy, Fairytale of New York and Like Someone in Love. 14 hours, 41 minutes $27.95 (c)2002 by Julia Glass (P)2002 by Random House Audio |
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