The Actress

8 hrs. 59 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Anne Enright

Narrator Svetlana Kuznetsova

Description

The personal life of the Irish stage legend Catherine O’Dell was itself a grand theatrical performance, which her daughter Nora watched from behind the scenes. On stage and in life, her mother remained a mystery to her. …Years later, Nora writes a memoir book in which she tries to understand the actress adored by the public—the woman who conquered the theatrical stages of London and New York. A woman who devoted herself entirely to art and men. A mother who never once named her daughter the name of her father. “The ‘Actress’ is a deep study of the complex range of feelings experienced by children of outstanding parents: the pain of having to share their mother with the crowd and the duty to admire her from a distance.” (Natalya Lomyakina, literary reviewer for Forbes)