Once we were sisters : a memoir
(Audiobook CD)
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Wadsworth Library - Geneseo - Audiobooks
AUDIO 923 KOHLER
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AUDIO 923 KOHLER
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Wadsworth Library - Geneseo - Audiobooks | AUDIO 923 KOHLER | Available |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Audiobooks.
Authors, South African -- Biography.
Autobiographies.
Kohler, Sheila -- Family.
Kohler, Sheila -- Travel.
Kohler, Sheila.
Sisters -- South Africa -- Biography.
Sisters -- South Africa -- Death.
South Africa -- History -- 1961-1994 -- Biography.
Women -- South Africa -- Biography.
Women authors, South African -- Biography.
Authors, South African -- Biography.
Autobiographies.
Kohler, Sheila -- Family.
Kohler, Sheila -- Travel.
Kohler, Sheila.
Sisters -- South Africa -- Biography.
Sisters -- South Africa -- Death.
South Africa -- History -- 1961-1994 -- Biography.
Women -- South Africa -- Biography.
Women authors, South African -- Biography.
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Format
Audiobook CD
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (4.9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Title from web page.
General Note
Compact discs.
Participants/Performers
Read by the author.
Description
A beautiful, heartrending literary memoir about the tragic death of the author's beloved older sister and a tribute to their bond. When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine, only two years older, was killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg. Stunned by the news, she immediately flew back to the country where she was born, determined to find answers and forced to reckon with his history of violence and the lingering effects of their most unusual childhood--one marked by death and the misguided love of their mother. In her signature spare and incisive prose, Sheila Kohler recounts the lives she and her sister led. Flashing back to their storybook childhood at the family estate, Crossways, Kohler tells of the death of her father when she and Maxine were girls, which led to the family abandoning their house and the girls being raised by their mother, at turns distant and suffocating. We follow them to the cloistered Anglican boarding school where they first learn of separation and later their studies in Rome and Paris where they plan grand lives for themselves--lives that are interrupted when both marry young and discover they have made poor choices. Kohler evokes the bond between sisters and shows how that bond changes but never breaks, even after death.
System Details
Compact disc.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kohler, S. (2017). Once we were sisters: a memoir (Unabridged ; CD.). Blackstone Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kohler, Sheila. 2017. Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir. [Ashland, OR]: Blackstone Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kohler, Sheila. Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir [Ashland, OR]: Blackstone Audio, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kohler, Sheila. Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir Unabridged ; CD., Blackstone Audio, 2017.
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