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    The Perfectionist
    The Perfectionist
    The Perfectionist
    Audiobook1 hour

    The Perfectionist

    Written by Joyce Carol Oates

    Narrated by David Schwimmer and Full Cast

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    About this audiobook

    Prize-winning author Joyce Carol Oates turns her satiric eye to Tobias Harte, a man obsessed with perfection in everything from ethics to egg salad. Rollicking comedy ensues as Harte struggles with his highly imperfect family and friends.

    An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barbara Bosson, Annabeth Gish, Harold Gould, Valerie Landsburg, David Schwimmer and David Selby.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherL.A. Theatre Works
    Release dateJan 1, 2001
    ISBN9781580814935
    The Perfectionist
    Author

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

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