North Woods

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$45.00  $41.85
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Random House Audio Publishing Group
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English
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Compact Disc
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9798217068494

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About the Author

Daniel Mason is a physician and the author of several novel, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages and adapted for opera and theater. He was named the 2020 winner of the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. He is a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, where he teaches courses in the humanities and medicine.

Kirsten Potter, who graduated with highest honors from Boston University, has narrated numerous audiobooks and has performed for television and in theaters across the country. She has won several awards, including eleven AudioFile Earphones Awards, and been a three-time finalist for the prestigious Audie Award.

Jayne Entwistle is a voice talent and Earphones Award-winning narrator.

Arthur Morey has recorded over two hundred audiobooks in history, fiction, science, business, and religion, earning a number of AudioFile Earphones Awards and two Audie Award nominations. He was an editor at two publishers and has taught writing at Northwestern University. His plays and songs have been produced in New York, Chicago, and Milan, where he has also performed. Arthur attended Harvard and the University of Chicago.
George Newbern's film credits include Father of the Bride 1 and 2, Adventures in Babysitting, and Dadnapped. He has guest starred on many television series, including Scandal, The Mentalist, Private Practice, CSI: Miami, and Numb3rs.

Mark Deakins is an actor whose television appearances include Head Case, Star Trek: Voyager, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. His film credits include Intervention, Star Trek: Insurrection, and The Devil's Advocate.

Billie Fulford-Brown is a London-based actress, voice-over artist, and AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator.

Mark Bramhall has won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration, more than thirty AudioFile Earphones Awards, and has repeatedly been named by AudioFile magazine and Publishers Weekly among their "Best Voices of the Year." He is also an award-winning actor whose acting credits include off-Broadway, regional, and many Los Angeles venues as well as television, animation, and feature films. He has taught and directed at the American Academy of Dramatic Art.

Michael Crouch is an actor based in New York City. His audiobook narration has won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, numerous Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, and Best of the Year accolades from Booklist, School Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly. He can also be heard on national commercials, cartoons, video games, and the animé series Pokémon XY and Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V.

Jason Culp, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, has been acting since the age of ten, and his credits include a variety of television, theater, and film roles. He is best known for his role as Julian Jerome on General Hospital. In addition to audiobooks and voice-over work in national commercials, he has also narrated documentaries for National Geographic and the History Channel.
Simon Vance, a former BBC Radio presenter and newsreader, is a full-time actor who has appeared on both stage and television. He has recorded over eight hundred audiobooks and has earned fifty-seven Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, including one for his narration of Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini. A multiple Audie finalist, Simon has won Audie Awards for The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan, and The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff. Winner of the 2008 Booklist Voice of Choice Award, Simon has also been named an AudioFile Golden Voice as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009.
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Reviews

"[With] a wide array of audiobook narrators...the result is too good to miss...Each narrator is perfectly cast for their section. Characters and their struggles are thoughtfully portrayed, and each narrator's voice suits the time period depicted...Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award."

-- "AudioFile"

"A time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic."

-- "Washington Post"

"It seems almost a magic trick, the way in which Mason knits his lives into a single tale."

-- "Sunday Times (London)"

"Each arc is beautifully, heartbreakingly conveyed, stitching together subtle connections across time. This astonishes."

-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"

"A love poem to the human and natural history of Western Massachusetts...wise, profound, chilling, carnal, and funny."

-- "BookPage"
Dazzling . . . a brave and original book, which invents its own form. It is both intimate and epic, playful and serious. To read it is to travel to the limits of what the novel can do.-- "The Guardian (US)"
A time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic . . . Each chapter germinates its own form while sending out tendrils that entwine beneath the surface of the novel . . . As [Mason] floats through thrillers, a bit of comic noir, erotic paranormal fiction and other genres, it's hard to imagine there is anything he can't do . . .-- "The Washington Post"
Gorgeous . . . a tale of ephemerality and succession, of the way time accrues in layers, like sedimentary soil.-- "NPR"
Brilliantly combines the granularity of realism with the timeless, shimmering allure of myth . . . Sui generis fiction . . . The forest and the trees: Mason keeps both in clear view in his eccentric and exhilarating novel.-- "The New York Times Book Review"
It seems almost a magic trick, the way in which Mason knits his lives into a single tale.-- "Erica Wagner, The Sunday Times"
A treatise on forest management (and mismanagement), a hallucinatory dream sequence, and an anthropologist's life's work all rolled into one. North Woods fires on all cylinders by engaging all the senses as it transports readers through history.-- "San Francisco Chronicle"
A tender lament for our vanishing earthly paradise. . . . it's hard not to come away feeling a bit wistful, seeing what we've lost and imagining what lies ahead in our probably dystopian future.-- "The Boston Globe"
Enthralling . . . the bigger point of North Woods is how much is forgotten or never known. This resonates at a time when Americans are arguing about what version of history students should be taught.-- "The Economist"
This is . . . a cunningly contrived and beautifully intricate book . . .-- "The Scotsman"
[A] magisterial mosaic . . . Truly triumphant.-- "Booklist, Starred Review"
It's a dazzling high-wire act--and it's thrilling to read . . . There are a lot of great books coming out this fall but, if I were you, I'd start with this one.-- "The Star Tribune"
North Woods is a monumental achievement of polyphony and humanity . . . I loved it.-- "Maggie O'Farrell, New York Times bestselling author of Hamnet"
North Woods is the most original and spellbinding novel I've read in ages. Mason makes bramble, brush, and orchard come alive with the spirits of their unforgettable former inhabitants. Their lives . . . had me glued to my seat.-- "Abraham Verghese, New York Times bestselling author of The Covenant of Water"
Ambitious, alive, and lush . . . I emerged from this book as though from an enchanted forest, covered in leaves and changed by what I had seen there. . . . Electrifying.-- "Tess Gunty, author of The Rabbit Hutch"
North Woods is a sui generis work of pure brilliance, an epic written with a miniaturist's precision. Daniel Mason has unearthed . . . a universal story of loss and reclamation. It's the best book I've read in ages.-- "Anthony Marra, author of Mercury Pictures Presents"
Mason depicts all of [the] stories with sympathy, sensitivity, and affectionate humor. Epic in scope and ambitious in style, this book succeeds on all counts. Highly recommended.-- "Library Journal (starred review)"
Readers, too, will find themselves in an entrancing fictional realm . . . Like the house at its center, a book that is multitudinous and magical.-- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"
Each arc is beautifully, heartbreakingly conveyed, stitching together subtle connections across time. This astonishes.-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
North Woods is a love poem to the human and natural history of Western Massachusetts . . . wise, profound, chilling, carnal and funny.-- "BookPage"