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Backcast
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Summary
When sculptor and author Barb Davis is given an NEA grant to pair original feminist sculptures with searing first-person essays on transitions in women's lives, she organizes a two-week writing retreat with 12 of the best, brightest, and most notorious lesbian authors in the business. But in between regularly scheduled happy hours and writing sessions, the women enter a tournament bass-fishing competition, receive life coaching from a wise-cracking fish named Phoebe, and uncover a subterranean world of secrets and desires that is as varied and elusive as the fish that swim in the waters of Lake Champlain.
Set on the beautiful shores of Vermont's Lake Champlain, Backcast is richly populated with an expansive cast of endearing and outrageous characters who battle writer's block, quirky locals, personal demons, unexpected attractions, and even each other during their two-week residency. For Barb and each of her 12 writers, the stakes in this fast-moving story are high, but its emotional and romantic payoffs are slow and sweet. Filled with equal parts laugh-out-loud humor and breathtaking pathos, Backcast serves up a sometimes irreverent, sometimes sobering look at the hidden lives of women, and how they laugh, love, lose, and blunder through their own search for meaning.
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- Tess Mc
- 19-09-21
Deep and humorous
Definitely one to listen to again. I love the one liners. Love all this author work
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- lyn
- 11-04-22
Has a good balance of humour, life and human natur
I generally like Ann McMann's books and this one didn't disappoint. A realistic cast of characters with very relatable life experiences and journeys. Well balanced with hunour
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- ChrystalClear
- 18-12-15
Females, fish and far out thinking
I love the way mcman writes conversations. The way she captures our inner dialogues and those decisions we make to speak or hold our peace. The pacing is gorgeous and this is another beautiful audible performance. If this is your first mcman your in good hands go and read Jericho if you feel the need for more affirmation of what it means to be a woman, a lesbian in real life.
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- jane c
- 26-07-22
brilliant
I loved this book and recommend it to anyone
this is another great book by Ann McMan who is quickly becoming one of my favourite authors. it's a great mix of humour , pathos, reflections and emotional moments all mixed together with a great cast of characters. I loved how it overlapped slightly with Ann McMan Jericho books though reading them first isn't necessary but I recommend you read them at some point anyway .
another great narration by Christine Williams
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- Lesley
- 10-11-22
Wonderful!
I chuckled, laughed and cried listening to this book and, no doubt, I will listen to it again. Very well written and narrated.
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- Iwona Szerement
- 07-10-22
Highly recommend it to anyone
I love the stories behind each and every character and narrator is one of the best in LGBT genre.
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- Frankimunk
- 22-02-16
Not what I expected, so some disappointment....
Sometimes a good narrator can lift a bad book. Sometimes a bad narrator can ruin a good book. That said~This narrator had a really nice tone and did many voice characters well, but alas (for me) this excellent narrator could not redeem this book IMO Perhaps if you are interested in fishing ~you've found your next great read. I sometimes wish one could hear a large part of the book before buying because I waste a fortune buying one book after another until I find a gem! Not for Me, but might be for others....
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- T. Greb
- 05-08-21
Terrible
This is the second book or read by this narrator I can't say that I enjoyed the narration her voice is flat and her accents are dreadful.
The second book that I read by this author and I can't say it's good the story is dull the characters are one dimensional, the story is boring.
I didn't buy into any of the characters and frankly didn't care about their lives.
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