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The Gilded Years
- A Novel
- By: Karin Tanabe
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 260
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 261
Passing meets The House of Mirth in this "utterly captivating" (Kathleen Grissom, New York Times best-selling author of The Kitchen House) historical novel based on the true story of Anita Hemmings, the first black student to attend Vassar, who successfully passed as white - until she let herself grow too attached to the wrong person.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Terrible reader of terrible prose
- By Linda on 07-14-16
- The Gilded Years
- A Novel
- By: Karin Tanabe
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Good historical fiction but narration a serious distraction.
Reviewed: 07-01-17
I wish I had read rather than listened to this book. While the story was well-written, the voices and intonations given to the characters were cartoonish, and the mispronunciation of "Massachusetts" throughout the narration was jarring and really distracting.
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