5 audio discs (6 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time
063000
Description
digital rda
audio file CD audio rda
Note
Title from disc.
Performer
Narrated by Chloe Cannon.
Note
Compact disc.
"A novel" -- Container.
Summary
Growing up in early twentieth-century Illinois, Ruby Drake is a happy child. But one winter's night, her beloved parents perish in an accident, and suddenly Ruby finds herself penniless and nearly alone in the world. At a historical moment when young women are expected to be focused on courtship and marriage, the industrious, bright Ruby searches for opportunities to expand her horizons at every step. Mastering her responsibilities on the farm. Learning to smoke cigarettes. Borrowing books from the local lending library, reading devotedly and expansively: mythology, romance, poetry. And falling in love with her married neighbor, Roland. But when Ruby is asked to care for Roland's wife in the wake of tragedy, she is torn between duty and passion, between what has been her lot and what could be.
