Other Men’s Daughters - Richard Stern torrent

Category: Adults, General Fiction, Romance
Language: English
Keywords: 20th Century American Marriager NYRB Classics

Written by Richard Stern
Read by Liisa Ivary
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

“Until the day of Merriwether’s departure from the house—a month after his divorce—the Merriwether family looked like an ideally tranquil one” we read on the first page of Other Men’s Daughters. It is the late 1960s, and the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are full of long-haired hippies decked out in colorful garb, but Dr. Robert Merriwether, who teaches at Harvard and has been married for a good long time, hardly takes note. Learned, curious, thoughtful, and a creature of habit, Merriwether is anything but an impulsive man, and yet over the summer, while Sarah, his wife, is away on vacation, he meets a summer student, Cynthia Ryder, and before long the two have fallen into bed and in love. Richard Stern’s novel is an elegant and unnerving examination of just how cold and destructive a thing love, “the origin of so much story and disorder,” can be.

Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
Release date: 01-06-15