The Angel of Rome: And Other Stories
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes—for the better, for the worse, for the outrageous—as a diverse cast of characters bounces from Italy to Idaho, questioning their roles in life and finding inspiration in the unlikeliest places.
We all live like we're famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities, withholding those parts of ourselves we don't want others to see. In this riveting collection of stories from acclaimed author Jess Walter, a teenage girl tries to live up to the image of her beautiful, missing mother. An elderly couple confronts the fiction writer eavesdropping on their conversation. A son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for a place to care for the old man. A famous actor in recovery has a one-night stand with the world's most surprising film critic. And in the romantic title story, a shy twenty-one-year-old studying Latin in Rome during "the year of my reinvention" finds himself face-to-face with the Italian actress of his adolescent dreams.
Funny, poignant, and redemptive, this collection of short fiction offers a dazzling range of voices, backdrops, and situations. With his signature wit and bighearted approach to the darkest parts of humanity, Walter tackles the modern condition with a timeless touch, once again "solidifying his place in the contemporary canon as one of our most gifted builders of fictional worlds" (Esquire).
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
Jess Walter. (2022). The Angel of Rome: And Other Stories. Unabridged HarperAudio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Jess Walter. 2022. The Angel of Rome: And Other Stories. HarperAudio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Jess Walter, The Angel of Rome: And Other Stories. HarperAudio, 2022.
MLA Citation (style guide)Jess Walter. The Angel of Rome: And Other Stories. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2022.
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 4 | 4 |
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{A280F2E2-25F2-4F26-9222-FA33B3DB9FCC}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0293-1/{A280F2E2-25F2-4F26-9222-FA33B3DB9FCC}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0293-1/{A280F2E2-25F2-4F26-9222-FA33B3DB9FCC}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0293-1/{A280F2E2-25F2-4F26-9222-FA33B3DB9FCC}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780063246980
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- id: audiobook-mp3
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780063246980
- name: OverDrive Listen
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Jess Walter
- title
- The Angel of Rome
- dateAdded
- 2022-06-23T23:15:00Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=7227540
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
- sortTitle
- Angel of Rome And Other Stories
- crossRefId
- 7227540
- subtitle
- And Other Stories
- id
- A280F2E2-25F2-4F26-9222-FA33B3DB9FCC
- starRating
- 4.3
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- duration: 08:12:15
- fileName: TheAngelofRome_9780063246980_7227540
- partCount: 8
- fileSize: 234899520
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780063246980
- rights:
- type: PlayOnPC
- value: 1
- type: PlayOnPCCount
- value: -1
- type: BurnToCD
- value: 1
- type: BurnToCDCount
- value: -1
- type: PlayOnPM
- value: 1
- type: TransferToSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferToNonSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferCount
- value: -1
- type: CollaborativePlay
- value: 0
- type: PublicPerformance
- value: 0
- type: TranscodeToAAC
- value: 1
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-mp3
- onSaleDate: 6/28/2022
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a280f2e2-25f2-4f26-9222-fa33b3db9fcc&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- duration: 08:09:18
- fileName: TheAngelofRome_9780063246980_7227540
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 234869233
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780063246980
- name: OverDrive Listen
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 6/28/2022
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a280f2e2-25f2-4f26-9222-fa33b3db9fcc&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Walter, Jess
- bioText:
Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including the bestsellers Beautiful Ruins and The Financial Lives of the Poets, the National Book Award finalist The Zero, and Citizen Vince, the winner of the Edgar Award for best novel. His short fiction has appeared in Harper's, McSweeney's, and Playboy, as well as The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He lives in his hometown of Spokane, Washington.
- name: Jess Walter
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: Ballerini, Edoardo
- name: Edoardo Ballerini
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: Whelan, Julia
- name: Julia Whelan
- publishDate
- 2022-06-28T00:00:00-04:00
- edition
- Unabridged
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- The Angel of Rome
- fullDescription
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes—for the better, for the worse, for the outrageous—as a diverse cast of characters bounces from Italy to Idaho, questioning their roles in life and finding inspiration in the unlikeliest places.
We all live like we're famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities, withholding those parts of ourselves we don't want others to see. In this riveting collection of stories from acclaimed author Jess Walter, a teenage girl tries to live up to the image of her beautiful, missing mother. An elderly couple confronts the fiction writer eavesdropping on their conversation. A son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for a place to care for the old man. A famous actor in recovery has a one-night stand with the world's most surprising film critic. And in the romantic title story, a shy twenty-one-year-old studying Latin in Rome during "the year of my reinvention" finds himself face-to-face with the Italian actress of his adolescent dreams.
Funny, poignant, and redemptive, this collection of short fiction offers a dazzling range of voices, backdrops, and situations. With his signature wit and bighearted approach to the darkest parts of humanity, Walter tackles the modern condition with a timeless touch, once again "solidifying his place in the contemporary canon as one of our most gifted builders of fictional worlds" (Esquire).
- reviews
- premium: True
- source:
- content: Narrator Edoardo Ballerini makes Rome blossom in this coming-of-age novella by Jess Walter (BEAUTIFUL RUINS) and Ballerini. It is 1993, and Jack Rigel, a diffident college student from Nebraska, wins a scholarship to study Latin at the Vatican. Italy overwhelms him at first--his linguistic knowledge is subpar, and he has no money. One day, a dejected Jack (perfectly emoted by Ballerini) blunders into a movie set on the streets of Trastevere and meets two erstwhile stars: an American TV detective and a beautiful Roman actress (aka the "Angel of Rome"). Ballerini deftly intertwines the bravado, beauty, and kindness of these characters with Jack's innocence, but his gift to the listener is his poignant portrayal of the present-day Jack--middle-aged, self-actualized, and forever grateful for the redemptive friendships forged in Rome. E.S.B. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
April 4, 2022
Reading Walter’s perceptive collection (after The Cold Millions) is like sitting next to the guy at a dinner party who has something hilarious to say about everyone and knows all their secrets. In the title story, written with actor Edoardo Ballerini, a starry-eyed Nebraska kid spends a year studying in Italy after high school. There, he stumbles onto the set of a film starring a fading Italian bombshell, and the encounter sets off an antic shaggy-dog tale culminating in the students in his Latin class writing a new ending for the movie. Walter is even better in quieter stories like “Drafting,” in which a woman battling cancer seeks out an old flame, a 36-year-old perpetually stoned skater dude who, despite his utter fecklessness, is the only person able to quiet her existential dread. Occasionally, Walter’s shrewdness about the nature of his characters can feel a little schematic, as in the otherwise entertaining and witty “Famous Actor,” involving a hookup between a coffee shop barista and a slumming movie star with a drug problem. The dialogue and setup are great (“It’s so great to just be in, like, a fucking apartment,” the actor says about the narrator’s place), though it ends predictably. Compared to the novels, this is minor Jess Walter, but minor Jess Walter is better than most.
- popularity
- 1219
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/a280f2e2-25f2-4f26-9222-fa33b3db9fcc/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- a280f2e2-25f2-4f26-9222-fa33b3db9fcc
- starRating
- 3.9
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{A280F2E2-25F2-4F26-9222-FA33B3DB9FCC}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0293-1/{A280F2E2-25F2-4F26-9222-FA33B3DB9FCC}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0293-1/{A280F2E2-25F2-4F26-9222-FA33B3DB9FCC}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0293-1/{A280F2E2-25F2-4F26-9222-FA33B3DB9FCC}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Fiction
- value: Literature
- value: Short Stories
- publishDateText
- 06/28/2022
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- shortDescription
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes—for the better, for the worse, for the outrageous—as a diverse cast of characters bounces from Italy to Idaho, questioning their roles in life and finding inspiration in the unlikeliest places.
We all live like we're famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities, withholding those parts of ourselves we don't want others to see. In this riveting collection of stories from acclaimed author Jess Walter, a teenage girl tries to live up to the image of her beautiful, missing mother. An elderly couple confronts the fiction writer eavesdropping on their conversation. A son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for a place to care for the old man. A famous actor in recovery has a one-night stand with the world's most surprising film critic. And...
- sortTitle
- Angel of Rome And Other Stories
- crossRefId
- 7227540
- subtitle
- And Other Stories
- publisher
- HarperAudio
- bisacCodes
- code: FIC019000
- description: Fiction / Literary
- code: FIC029000
- description: Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
- code: FIC045000
- description: Fiction / Family Life / General
