Golden Voice narrator Edoardo Ballerini tells AudioFile listeners about co-narrating TABLE FOR TWO, a collection of short fiction from Amor Towles. Our reviewer calls it a happy alliance of author and narrator, and Ballerini calls it absolutely gorgeous writing—with a bonus for fans of Towles's RULES OF CIVILITY.
"Every page hits you like the first sip of a dry martini."—Narrator Edoardo Ballerini
TABLE FOR TWO: Fictions
by Amor Towles, read by Edoardo Ballerini and J. Smith-Cameron
Penguin Audio
AudioFile Earphones Award
Golden Voice narrator Ballerini uses his full range of techniques. By turns nuanced and dramatic, he always serves the author’s fine prose. His smart pace and rich tone work particularly well for the noir novella set in late 1930s Hollywood. Evelyn Ross, from Towles’s novel RULES OF CIVILITY, has now moved on from New York City. Ballerini shines in the opening work, “New York: The Line,” about an average Russian, named Pushkin, who has a gift for helping others with Russia’s long food lines. J. Smith-Cameron also narrates one story in the collection.
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