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Vanishing Acts (Audio CD)

by Jodi Picoult (Author)

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Audio CD
Publisher: Recorded Books (March 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1419320149
ISBN-13: 978-1419320149
Product Dimensions: 15 x 13.2 x 4.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 409 g

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Each of the five narrators in this excellent audiobook speaks intimately to the listener, capitalizing on the emotional complexity of Picoult's heart-wrenching tale. Delia Hopkins, read with simple grace by Gibson, immediately seizes the listener's attention when she relates how, on an ordinary day in smalltown New Hampshire, her beloved father, Andrew, is arrested for having kidnapped her, 28 years earlier, from the mother she long thought was dead. Delia's fiancé, Eric, and her best friend, Fitz (both of whom are given appropriately cultured New England accents), add dimension to this multifaceted exploration of love and identity, but Delia's parents, read by Jenner and Washington, offer the most noteworthy performances. Jenner successfully conveys the rainbow of personalities Andrew encounters while being held in an Arizona jail. Washington, meanwhile, embodies Delia's darkly tragic mother, who emerges as both a gentle healer with a dulcet Southwestern accent and a mother who was never there for her young child. Simultaneous release with the Atria hardcover (Forecasts, Feb. 7). (Mar.)
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Jodi Picoult's formula puts ordinary people in extraordinary dilemmas, the story told by the alternating voices of the people involved. Having different actors voice the major characters is ideal, and all here are excellent, from the supple but mature voice of paterfamilias Andrew Hopkins, who turns out to have kidnapped his daughter decades earlier, to the daughter, now known as Delia, who is a young mother herself. Picoult dovetails the narratives neatly and rations the plot turns expertly, building to a fine courtroom finale. One regrets that the cast list is given only on audio. Would it be impossible to give the actors credit in print, when it is due, as it is here? B.G. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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4.0 out of 5 stars My first Jodi Picoult, Mar 3 2008

By	Jojos "Jojos" (Quebec, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vanishing Acts (Hardcover)

Well... I saw "Plain Truth" on tv and I loved it. So I decided to give her a try. I got Vanishing Acts. Well, it's a good story and I liked reading it. The way it's written is unique. It was different from the other books I have read. I bought "Nineteen Minutes". I'll give you a review later. I give her 4 stars for the story and the originality in the way it's written. :)

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3.0 out of 5 stars A Mix of 3 & 4 Star Ratings, Mar 25 2007

By	Shepherdess Extraordinaire (Stettler, Alberta, Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Vanishing Acts: A Novel (Paperback)

I wasn't sure whether to give this book 3 or 4 stars. If Picoult had left out the chapters narrated by Fitz I would give it 4 stars, but as written, I felt it deserved 3 stars. The chapters alternate between those narrated by Delia, her father Andrew, her boyfriend Eric, and her friend Fitz. Overall, the novel could have been shorter - simply leaving out the Fitz chapters would have accomplished that. His character comes across as a pathetic victim of his love for Delia and really doesn't add to the story.

The chapters by Andrew however deserve 5 stars! He recounts his experiences in prison and those chapters are "page turners". Picoult's writing in these accounts weave drama, tragedy, and tension to portray how Andrew walks a fine line between compromising his values and maintaining his integrity in order to stay alive in prison while awaiting his trial. Picoult takes hard core criminals and presents their characters and lives in a way that the reader feels empathy and cares for them despite their hard core criminal careers and the things they resort to to survive in prison. She does such a great job that - without giving away a very emotional part of the story - I cried over a particularly sad incident. The accounts of Andrew in prison are what really makes this book great.

In The Tenth Circle I loved the way Picoult used similies and made comments tieing the story to "life lessons". In this book, however, she goes overboard to the point that many of these comments become syrupy and seemed forced; they don't have the same effect that they had in The Tenth Circle.

All in all though, I would still recommend this book. The Andrew chapters make the book worth the read.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the BEST, Mar 31 2005

By	Andrew Kleeman - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vanishing Acts (Hardcover)

Author Jodi Picoult always creates such vivid, real characters it becomes easy to get lost in her books. "Vanishing Acts" is WITHOUT A DOUBT one of THE BEST books in recent years. It's the haunting memories of the past making turmoil in the present and threatening the future. Along with Sue Monk Kidd's new novel "The Mermaid Chair" and Rikki Lee Travolta's "My Fractured Life", Picoult's "Vanishing Acts" is takes the haunting of the past concept to new levels. Absolutely a book you should give a try.

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