Alison Larkin
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- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA (birth)
UK - Geburtsort
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Wohnorte
- England, UK
Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts, USA - Ausbildung
- Royal Holloway College
University of London
Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art - Berufe
- actor
comedian
writer
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The English American: A Novel von Alison Larkin
If you like chick lit, British characters, and adoption plots, this one's for you. It was not for me. I found it boring by page 60 and decided not to finish it.
This is a charming story. I listened it because the author lives in my area. I thought I'd give it a try and listened to the audio. I really enjoyed it. Alison is a lovely reader, I have since listened to many of the books she read. This story if full of humor and hard situations. She had me laughing and my stomach tying in knots through-out.
This was good but not great. It lacked a certain resonance for me. I thought the author was an EXCELLENT reader though.
Freely Adapted by Alison Larkin. Alison Larkin changes the gender of Scrooge in this ground breaking new version of A Christmas Carol. It's the same beloved Christmas story - only one thing has changed. In this version, Scrooge is a woman. Everything else is written as Dickens wrote it - so the characters around Scrooge behave as if it were quite normal for a woman to read and write, fall in love with a woman and have the kind of career only men could dream of. It's an irresistible question. If gender had been simply irrelevant in the 19th century where would we all be now? “A novel rich in imagination, detail, and surprises.… (mehr)
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