Innocents and Others: A Novel
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)

Dana Spiotta. (2016). Innocents and Others: A Novel. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio.

Dana Spiotta. 2016. Innocents and Others: A Novel. Simon & Schuster Audio.

Dana Spiotta, Innocents and Others: A Novel. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2016.

Dana Spiotta. Innocents and Others: A Novel. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio, 2016.

OverDrive Product Record

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/5054-1/{8E1851BD-B6C4-4FA0-84A0-1FD7D4416A5A}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/5054-1/{8E1851BD-B6C4-4FA0-84A0-1FD7D4416A5A}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/5054-1/8E1/851/BD/{8E1851BD-B6C4-4FA0-84A0-1FD7D4416A5A}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/5054-1/8E1/851/BD/{8E1851BD-B6C4-4FA0-84A0-1FD7D4416A5A}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: 8
        • value: simonandschuster_audio#9781508214038
     2. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781508214052
   • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
   • id: audiobook-mp3
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: 8
        • value: simonandschuster_audio#9781508214038
     2. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781508214052
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • id: audiobook-overdrive

mediaType

Audiobook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Dana Spiotta

title

Innocents and Others

dateAdded

2016-03-10T20:25:00-05:00

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=2399319
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
     • id: 1151

sortTitle

Innocents and Others A Novel

crossRefId

2399319

subtitle

A Novel

id

8e1851bd-b6c4-4fa0-84a0-1fd7d4416a5a

starRating

3

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • duration: 08:17:29
   • fileName: InnocentsandOthers_9781508214038_2399319
   • partCount: 7
   • fileSize: 239115996
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781508214038
     2. • type: 8
        • value: simonandschuster_audio#9781508214038
   • rights:
     1. • type: PlayOnPC
        • value: 1
     2. • type: PlayOnPCCount
        • value: -1
     3. • type: BurnToCD
        • value: 1
     4. • type: BurnToCDCount
        • value: -1
     5. • type: PlayOnPM
        • value: 1
     6. • type: TransferToSDMI
        • value: 1
     7. • type: TransferToNonSDMI
        • value: 1
     8. • type: TransferCount
        • value: -1
     9. • type: CollaborativePlay
        • value: 0
     10. • type: PublicPerformance
         • value: 0
     11. • type: TranscodeToAAC
         • value: 1
   • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: audiobook-mp3
   • onSaleDate: 3/8/2016
   • samples:
     1. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-mp3
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/2399319-InnocentsAndOthers.mp3
     2. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8e1851bd-b6c4-4fa0-84a0-1fd7d4416a5a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
2. • duration: 08:17:32
   • fileName: InnocentsandOthersANovel-9034
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 238821248
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781508214038
     2. • type: 8
        • value: simonandschuster_audio#9781508214038
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: audiobook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 3/8/2016
   • samples:
     1. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-mp3
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/2399319-InnocentsAndOthers.mp3
     2. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8e1851bd-b6c4-4fa0-84a0-1fd7d4416a5a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Spiotta, Dana
   • bioText: Dana Spiotta is the author of Innocents and Others; Stone Arabia, A National Books Critics Circle Award finalist; and Eat the Document, a finalist for the National Book Award. Spiotta is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize for Literature. Her most recent novel is Wayward. She lives in Syracuse, New York.
   • name: Dana Spiotta
2. • role: Narrator
   • fileAs: LaVoy, January
   • name: January LaVoy

publishDate

2016-03-08T00:00:00-05:00

edition

Unabridged

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

Innocents and Others

fullDescription

From Dana Spiotta, the author of Wayward, Eat the Document, and Stone Arabia, "a brilliant novel...about female friendship, the limits of love and work, and costs of claiming your right to celebrate your triumphs and own your mistakes" (Elle).
Innocents and Others is about two women who grow up in LA in the 80s and become filmmakers. Meadow and Carrie have everything in common—except their views on sex, power, movie-making, and morality. Their friendship is complicated, but their devotion to each other trumps their wildly different approaches to film and to life. Meadow was always the more idealistic and brainy of the two; Carrie was more pragmatic. Into their lives comes Jelly, a master of seduction who calls powerful men and seduces them not with sex, but by being a superior listener. All of these women grapple with the question of how to be good: a good lover, a good friend, a good mother, a good artist.

A startlingly acute observer of the way we live now, Dana Spiotta "has created a new kind of great American novel" (The New York Times Magazine). "Impossible to put down" (Marie Claire), Innocents and Others is "a sexy, painfully insightful, and strangely redemptive novel about the ways we misread one another—with an ending that comes at you like a truck around a blind curve and stays with you for much, much longer" (Esquire).

reviews

1. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     December 14, 2015
     Spiotta (Stone Arabia) tackles the slippery nature of identity and the destructive pull of desire in her fourth novel—this time through the lens of film. Having lived in Los Angeles since the 1980s, best friends Meadow and Carrie are both successful filmmakers, but their approach to art and life couldn’t be more different. Married and strapped with a family, Carrie’s films are breezy crowd-pleasers, while solo Meadow’s searing documentaries pick at the scabs of their subjects’ shortcomings. One of Meadow’s early films tracks an outcast boy’s disastrous experimentation with sex. Another of her “heavy, invisible, unremarkable” subjects is 41-year-old Jelly, aka Nicole—whose sad but captivating backstory Spiotta explores over the course of sporadic chapters—seduces Hollywood men over the phone but self-consciously vanishes when they ask to meet in person. As the book progresses, both women’s lives spiral downward—Carrie’s home life is hollow, Meadow’s self-destructive narcissism ends her career—leaving neither fulfilled. Eschewing linear storytelling in favor of chapters interspersed with scene and interview transcripts and paragraphs of film theory, Spiotta delivers a patchwork portrait of two women on the verge of two very different nervous breakdowns. True to form, the effect is like watching raw footage before it’s been edited—sometimes moving, often disjointed, always thought provoking.

2. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content: Two girls meet and become friends in the 1980s, drawn together by their shared love of film. Narrator January LaVoy's low-key style perfectly fits this somber story. As the young women become filmmakers, each takes a different road--one, a purist, creates controversial documentaries, and the other, who is more commercially minded, makes financially successful movies. As their careers and personal lives weave together over the years, they're also touched by two other women's life choices. All of them find there are hard lessons to be learned and high costs to be paid in pursuing their dreams. The book's dark, deep insights into filmmaking are a slow reveal, masterfully played out in LaVoy's rich, quiet voice and deliberate pacing. Her presentation is reminiscent of someone reluctantly revealing a painful secret. A.C.P. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine

popularity

138

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/8e1851bd-b6c4-4fa0-84a0-1fd7d4416a5a/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
• shareInLibby:
  • href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=V5wkAMShdiw
  • type: text/HTML

id

8e1851bd-b6c4-4fa0-84a0-1fd7d4416a5a

starRating

3

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/5054-1/{8E1851BD-B6C4-4FA0-84A0-1FD7D4416A5A}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/5054-1/{8E1851BD-B6C4-4FA0-84A0-1FD7D4416A5A}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/5054-1/8E1/851/BD/{8E1851BD-B6C4-4FA0-84A0-1FD7D4416A5A}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/5054-1/8E1/851/BD/{8E1851BD-B6C4-4FA0-84A0-1FD7D4416A5A}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Fiction
2. • value: Literature

publishDateText

03/08/2016

mediaType

Audiobook

shortDescription

From Dana Spiotta, the author of Wayward, Eat the Document, and Stone Arabia, "a brilliant novel...about female friendship, the limits of love and work, and costs of claiming your right to celebrate your triumphs and own your mistakes" (Elle).
Innocents and Others is about two women who grow up in LA in the 80s and become filmmakers. Meadow and Carrie have everything in common—except their views on sex, power, movie-making, and morality. Their friendship is complicated, but their devotion to each other trumps their wildly different approaches to film and to life. Meadow was always the more idealistic and brainy of the two; Carrie was more pragmatic. Into their lives comes Jelly, a master of seduction who calls powerful men and seduces them not with sex, but by being a superior listener. All of these women grapple with the question of how to be good: a good lover, a good friend, a good mother, a good artist.

A startlingly...

sortTitle

Innocents and Others A Novel

crossRefId

2399319

subtitle

A Novel

publisher

Simon & Schuster Audio

bisacCodes

1. • code: FIC019000
   • description: Fiction / Literary
2. • code: FIC044000
   • description: Fiction / Contemporary Women
3. • code: FIC069000
   • description: Fiction / City Life