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Evening Audio CD – Audiobook, May 1, 2007

by Susan Minot (Author), Kathryn Walker (Reader)
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 259 ratings
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With two novels and one short story collection published to overwhelming critical acclaim ("Monkeys takes your breath away," said Anne Tyler; "heartbreaking, exhilarating," raved the New York Times Book Review), Susan Minot has emerged as one of the most gifted writers in America, praised for her ability to strike at powerful emotional truths in language that is sensual and commanding, mesmerizing in its vitality and intelligence. Now, with Evening, she gives us her most ambitious novel, a work of surpassing beauty. During a summer weekend on the coast of Maine, at the wedding of her best friend, Ann Grant fell in love. She was twenty-five. Forty years later--after three marriages and five children--Ann Lord finds herself in the dim claustrophobia of illness, careening between lucidity and delirium and only vaguely conscious of the friends and family parading by her bedside, when the memory of that weekend returns to her with the clarity and intensity of a fever-dream. Evening unfolds in the rushlight of that memory, as Ann relives those three vivid days on the New England coast, with motorboats buzzing and bands playing in the night, and the devastating tragedy that followed a spectacular wedding. Here, in the surge of hope and possibility that coursed through her at twenty-five--in a singular time of complete surrender--Ann discovers the highest point of her life. Superbly written and miraculously uplifting, Evening is a stirring exploration of time and memory, of love's transcendence and of its failure to transcend--a rich testament to the depths of grief and passion, and a stunning achievement.


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  1. Language
    English
  2. Publisher
    Random House Audio
  3. Publication date
    May 1, 2007
  4. Dimensions
    5.01 x 0.62 x 5.96 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    0739344080
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0739344088
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"Her best work yet, assured, supple, exhilarating in its nerve and cool momentum" --Joan Didion

"A stunning novel...a powerful story that cuts back and forth in time to give us both the defining moment in a woman's life and an understanding of how that moment has reverberated through the remainder of her days...Her evocation of her heroine's passion for Harris Arden is so convincing, her depiction of the world she inhabits is so fiercely observed...The difference between [Monkeys and Evening] attests to Susan Minot's growing ambition and
assurance as an artist" --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"An absorbing drama...Minot writes with quiet perceptiveness and grace, pulling the
reader into Ann's deathbed reverie" --Elle

"A brilliant lyric performance" --John Casey

"In spare and lovely language, Susan Minot has set forth a real life, in all its particularity and splendor and pain. This is the task of the novelist, and in Evening Minot has succeeded
admirably" --Roxana Robinson, New York Times Book Review

"It astounds in its craftsmanship and imprints itself indelibly on the heart...A haunting work of art that moves at the pace of a suspense thriller" --Sheila Bosworth, New Orleans Times-Picayune

"Evening is a beautifully realized work...more mature and confident than anything she has written...An exquisite novel" --Gail Caldwell, Boston Globe

"A wonderful, truthful, heartbreaking book. . .. Evening vindicates the wildest assertions any of us have made about Susan Minot's talent" --Tom McGuane

"Evening is a supremely sensual, sensitive and dramatic novel...So rich in color and motion, music and atmosphere" --Donna Seaman, Booklist

"I was swept up in it...It moved me and made me cry" --D. T. Max, New York Observer


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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House Audio; Abridged edition (May 1, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0739344080
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0739344088
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.01 x 0.62 x 5.96 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 259 ratings

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Susan Minot is an award-winning novelist and short story writer whose books include Monkeys, Folly, Lust & Other Stories, and Evening, which was adapted into the feature film of the same name starring Meryl Streep. Minot was born in Boston and raised in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, attended Brown University, and received her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. She currently lives with her daughter in both New York City and an island off the coast of Maine.

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WineGirl
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect!
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2023
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Thank you Elizabeth Bookstore! The book is in beautiful condition, shipping was fast and price was reasonable. Will definitely buy from your bookstore again.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Lovely book...just a little tricky to read
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2023
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I guess it's proof that I have recovered from my stroke/medical overdose pretty well if I can get through it. Thank you!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Memories That Linger
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2013
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In 1955 Ann Grant attends the wedding of her best friend in Maine. During that fateful weekend she falls in love with a young doctor from Chicago. Fate works her magic and they consummate their love within hours of meeting each other. Forty-eight hours later the doctor's fiancee arrives and tells her betrothed that she is carrying his child. He is torn between his love for Ann and his duty to his intended.

Now at the end of her life Ann Grant Lord lies in her bed. She is dying from cancer and each day the pain gets worse. Her children from her three marriages gather round and keep a death vigil while Ann mentally slips back in time to that weekend in 1955 when she fell in love. Her memories of that weekend become mixed with memories of her three marriages and with the hallucinations brought on by the heavy pain medicines she is taking.

This is an interesting book; highly imaginative in the way that it is written. The reader is taken on a roller-coaster ride through the mind of a dying woman who mentally reviews her life and still wonders what if she had married her young Chicago doctor. Throughout the narrative she is speaking to a male entity - it is never clear if that person is at her bedside in substance or only in spirit. We are led to believe that it is her young beau from 1955. She relives that fateful weekend in great detail although the memories are mixed with memories of other men (her three husbands) and other places she has been. Her children are the buzzards circling her deathbed. Nurse Brown is the voice of reason who writes her reports on her patient in a clinical manner that is much needed after the ramblings of the elderly Ann.

For me this book gave insight into the final days and hours of a person who has accepted her fate, knows she is about to die, and embraces the end. Everything else is secondary. A thought-provoking story that I finished in under a week.
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C. Noffsinger
5.0 out of 5 stars In the End
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2013
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I watch the movie made from this book and and it intrigued me so I bought. If it's anything like the movie I hope anyone with children will realize that their mothers had a "life" before they ever came along and that their mother was a very different person than they knew as their mother. That their Mother once was a young starry eyed person in love at one time too. Older women I think would enjoy this book and relate to it and their children would learn something from reading it. . I loved it.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Boring and Lame
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2007
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I buy 95% of my books online from Amazon and much of the time based on reader reviews, which is how I decided on Evening. What did I miss?? I was extremely disappointed in this book. The "images" Ann saw from her medicated state included dinosaurs, aspargus, syringes, martini glasses, Chinese men, etc, etc. Sometimes I would have to read an entire page to determine "where" Ann was in her life and the pages without punctuation were horrible to read. The memories of the wedding-weekend 40 years ago were the most enjoyable and was similar to Bridges of Madison County only more slow and boring. I did finish it and was glad when I was done. Like I said, Boring and Lame.
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Just One Perspective
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing writing that touches all the senses
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2016
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Read Evening a long time ago and just bought this copy for a friend. Amazing tale of friendship and mother daughter relationships but the beauty is in how Minot captures memories... just the way they come to us, in wisps of colors, images, scents....
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Lora S.
4.0 out of 5 stars A story of living and dying
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2019
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This is a story about living and dying. It is about a woman’s last days. It is a love story.

Ann Lord has been diagnosed with cancer and is slowly dying. She remembers her life, a long life. Most of what she remembers is in bits and fragments. As she gets closer to the end and they start giving her morphine, the fragments become even more fragmented and more mixed up. She has been married three times, divorced once and widowed twice. She has had five children, including a set of twins. One of the twins has died.

But the one part of her life she remembers in vivid detail here at the end is a long weekend when she went to her best friend’s wedding. During the festivities accompanying this wedding, she met a man, a doctor who was a friend of the groom. She fell utterly and completely in love with this man, and they had several romantic encounters – even one after his fiancée arrived from Chicago. He gave her the impression he was going to dump the fiancée for her, but it turned out the fiancée was pregnant, so of course, that never happened.

Ann had met the bride of the wedding years before while skating. Over the years the bride’s parents took her in almost like part of the family. Afterward as she grew older, she remained close to the bride and the other friends of the family – they keep recurring even in her memories of her later life. The only person she seems not to have seen in later life is the man she fell in love with.

The romance portion of the story is related in vivid detail, in chronological order. The entire subsequent forty years of
Ann’s life is told in a sort of stream-of-consciousness drug-induced dream state that is a little
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mareander mare'
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Reading that Makes You Think.
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2014
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A magnificent story which I found made me look back on my life constantly while reading it. I love books that will make you think and add a dimension that you have not considered before.
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Denise
5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful book
Reviewed in Canada on January 16, 2023
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the lives of us all are interconnected through out our entire life
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Naiara Nunes de Souza
5.0 out of 5 stars Emocionante
Reviewed in Brazil on August 22, 2015
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Livro lindo e emocionante. Já conhecia o filme e o livro me surpreendeu com muito mais personagens e detalhes. Envolvente do começo ao fim.
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Marie DO
4.0 out of 5 stars Magnifique
Reviewed in France on December 20, 2013
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Tout en finesse , en délicatesse , cette vie qui s'en va sans cris , sans larmes . C'est d'autant plus émouvant ! Tout est murmuré , les personnages se dévoilent sereinement , quel beau texte!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Persuaded by excellent cast in film.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 21, 2016
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OK. Won't keep it. Read it because I'd enjoyed the film.
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prairierose1012
3.0 out of 5 stars Probably will not read again
Reviewed in Canada on May 29, 2014
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This is one of those novels that I wondered why I was reading it while the reading was happening. Once finished, and having a chance to reflect on it, I decided it was really ok.
It took a while to figure out which aspect of Anne's life was being discussed, but once figured out, the story moved relatively smoothly.
I really wanted to like Harris, but in retrospect, I figure he was really a dog, out for a good time before settling down. Anne might have wished for more, but his actions don't suggest he was in it for the long term. He might have said the right words, but I am not convinced there was a lot of substance behind them.
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