Cassandra at the Wedding
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Narrated by:
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Morgan Hallett
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By:
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Dorothy Baker
About this listen
Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding.
Dorothy Baker's entrancing tragicomic novella follows an unpredictable course of events in which her heroine appears variously as conniving, self-aware, pitiful, frenzied, absurd, and heartbroken - at once utterly impossible and tremendously sympathetic. As she struggles to come to terms with the only life she has, Cassandra reckons with her complicated feelings about the sister who she feels owes it to her to be her alter ego; with her father, a brandy-soaked retired professor of philosophy; and with the ghost of her dead mother.
First published in 1962, Cassandra at the Wedding is a work of enduring freshness, insight, and verve. Like the fiction of Jeffrey Eugenides and Jhumpa Lahiri, it is the work of a master stylist with a profound understanding of the complexities of the heart and mind.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- S. Bale
- 30-05-24
Cassy and Judy
I feel like I’m missing something. It was an entertaining look into complicated family dynamics (specifically sisters). Maybe it’s just not for me. Not a whole lot happened. I wish it had gone deeper into the sisters relationship. It’s an easy listen, and the narrator did a good job
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-05-23
Unexpected
This book is not what I expected it to be. It’s a lot more dark. It’s really about identity and family. And while the back drop of the story is the wedding the characters of Judith and Cassandra are really the main draw.
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