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ON THE OCCASION OF MY LAST AFTERNOON
By Kaye Gibbons, Simon & Schuster Audio, approximately 4 1/2 hours, abridged, $23. Read by Polly Holliday.
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No woman writing in America today captures the spirit–and humanity–of Southern women quite like Kaye Gibbons does. In these fictional reminiscences of Virginia’s Emma Garnet Tate Lowell, Gibbons turns the ambiguities of plantation life and the horrors of the Civil War into a kind of poetry, which Polly Holliday reads with a mix of vim and vinegar and sweetness and light that makes Gibbons’ language sing.