Type of bind: Audio Cassette
EAN num: 9781567409611
Format: Abridged, Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN number: 156740961X
Label: Stellar Audio
Manufacturer: Stellar Audio
Quantity: 1
Printing Date: March 01, 1997
Publishing house: Stellar Audio
Release Date: March 01, 1997
Sale Popularity Level: 3921946
Studio: Stellar Audio
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Product Description:
'Taste of Life, A' by Sara Paretsky (1-56740-961-X 14A)
'Men and Women of Riverdale, The' by Steve Tasnic Tem (1-56740-961-X 14B)
'Red as Blood' by Tanith Lee (1-56740-961X 14C)
(see individual titles for more information)
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Rated by buyers 
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This short 3 story collection is fun and dark and makes a great audio read.
A Taste for Life by Sara Paretsky is a stand alone dark tale with a very Twillight Zone quality about an unhappy fat woman and her story.......
The Men and Women of Rivendale by Steven Ransic Tem is a quirky fountain of youth type vampire tale with dark undertones and unreal reality. Very X-files in feel. I will be looking for more by this imaginative author.
Red as Blood is a signature Tanith Lee dark look at the Snow White fairytale. I love Tanith Lee- her horror and fantasy stories are always imaginative and full of twists.
Total time for tape is only 60 minutes. Good quality recording from Brilliance audio.
Rated by buyers 
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This review concerns a few stories by Sara Paretsky, "A Taste of Life" being the very first one of them.
Sara Paretsky writes short stories like other people drink tea. Each story gets its real meaning with the last page, the last sentence, the last line. The punch-line that turns the whole story upside down.
In A Taste of Life, she shows how a daughter can be the victim of a cannibal mother who steals all she wants from her daughter out of plain fear of competition or out of spite. She steals her slimness and beauty for forcefeeding her. And she even steals her love. But the punch line makes the conflict pathetic by turning it inside out. The mother meets with her righteous retribution.
In Dealer's Choice the turning upside down of the situation is quite striking but less meaningful. It is after all nothing but a small very traditional detective story.
But in The Man Who Loved Life the punchline takes a very general meaning. The big pundit of pro-life activists, of religious biggots about the family-centered society and the father-centered family, is destroyed when, during a big commemoration of the role of the hero in the fight for life and the protection of the unborn, it is revealed that he did not know his own wife followed the other track. He looks like a fool and the pro-life movement is revealed to be nothing but a male chauvinistic sham. Brilliant.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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