Goodbye Without Leaving

A Novel

De: Laurie Colwin

Narrado por: Renata Friedman

One of the most beloved novels from the critically acclaimed novelist Laurie Colwin, Goodbye Without Leaving explores a woman’s attempts to reconcile her rock-and-roll past with her significantly more sedate family life as a wife and mother.

As a bored graduate student, Geraldine Colshares is plucked from her too-tame existence when she is invited to tour as the only white backup singer for Vernon and Ruby Shakely and the Shakettes. The exciting years she spends as a Shakette are a mixed blessing, however, because when she ultimately submits to a conventional life of marriage and children, she finds herself stuck in bittersweet recollections of life on the road. As she grudgingly searches for a path toward happiness that doesn't involve a Day-Glo neon minidress, listeners will be enchanted by Geraldine’s attempts to grow up, even though she’s already an adult.

Employing Colwin’s usual dry wit and candor, Goodbye Without Leaving is a classic from the writer hailed as “ingenious, comic, and spirited” by the Boston Globe and “a writer of originality and vision" by the San Francisco Chronicle.

©1990 Laurie Colwin (P)2022 Random House Audio

Still good

Very strange set up but still a good journey punctuated by Colwin’s bright writing. As always, it’s her voice that elevates even a meandering story like this.

An excellent performance

This is the best narration of Laurie Colwin’s fiction - other than read by the author - that I have heard so far. My only objection is the voice of the child who luckily doesn’t speak a lot. I also have that complaint pretty consistently when narrators use a Lambchop by Sherri Lewis voice for children’s dialogue in audiobooks. What was impressive is this narration was the voices of the European refugees - very very well done. Highly recommended even for big Laurie Colwin fans like myself.