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Gigolo

Written by: Edna Ferber
Narrated by: Joe Barrett, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki
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Publisher's Summary

A beautifully crafted collection of eight short stories by Edna Ferber.

In Gigolo, Edna Ferber delves into the minds of eight diverse characters from all walks and stages of life: a handsome, oft-pursued mechanic who finds himself falling in love; a new widower who moves into the home of his son and daughter-in-law; a wounded pilot who discovers his family fortune has disappeared during the war and is reduced to making a living as a gigolo in Paris; a Broadway comedienne who is forced to reconsider her career options as she approaches the age of 40; an aspirational inventor who gets more than he bargained for when he marries a “home girl” whom he assumed would support his aspirations but ultimately furthers her own; a camping supply clerk who fancies himself a rugged outdoors man when in reality he has never traveled beyond Manhattan; a matriarch who grapples with turning 60 and managing her responsibilities to her grown children; and a young woman from Oklahoma who longs to escape her small town and discovers leaving home is hard to do.

Gigolo is a stirring collection from a best-selling and beloved chronicler of American working people.

Full contents:

  • “The Afternoon of a Faun”
  • “Old Man Minick”
  • “Gigolo”
  • “Not a Day over Twenty-One”
  • “Home Girl”
  • “Ain’t Nature Wonderful!”
  • “The Sudden Sixties”
  • “If I Should Ever Travel!”
Public Domain (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

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