Anne Rivers Siddons CD Audio Treasury: Colony / Hill Towns

by Anne Rivers Siddons, Judith Ivey (Narrator), Marcia Gay Harden (Narrator)

As aged Maude Chambliss waits to be taken home by her granddaughter, she recalls her summers at Retreat, a colony in from her arrival in 1921 as a young bride, fresh from South Carolina, a misfit amid these wealthy Bostonians, to her current struggle to keep the colony and its environs out of the hands of spoilers. Hill This phenomenal national bestseller is a rare story of depth and deliverance. Hill Towns explores the structure of a marriage. As a small child , a single event irrevocably changed the life of Catherine Gaillard and rendered her unable to leaver her cloistered mountaintop town in Tennessee for the next 30 years.

Genres: Fiction

6 pages, Audio CD

First published September 1, 2006

About the author

Born Sybil Anne Rivers in Atlanta, Georgia, she was raised in Fairburn, Georgia, and attended Auburn University, where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority.

While at Auburn she wrote a column for the student newspaper, The Auburn Plainsman, that favored integration. The university administration attempted to suppress the column, and ultimately fired her, and the column garnered national attention. She later became a senior editor for Atlanta magazine.

At the age of thirty she married Heyward Siddons, and she and her husband lived in Charleston, South Carolina, and spent summers in Maine. Siddons died of lung cancer on September 11, 2019

Reviews

[Lorrie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Colony was a very quick, although amazingly thorough, listen. Four generations are delivered in 2.5 disks. Very good! The narrator did a really nice job with the different characters. I began to listen to Hill Towns next but realized I've already read it. Too little time, so many books. I will not listen to it again.

[Sheri Howard · Rating 3 out of 5]

This audiobook had two novels by Anne Rivers Siddons. The best thing about both stories was the sense of place--one set in Maine, the other in Tennessee and Italy. Both plots were typical chick lit--enjoyable, yet mindless, entertainment. I'm certainly not trying to disparage the author with a three-star rating. It's just that it is a very rare author that can turn this genre into anything more than three stars for me. Actually, I might give Hill Towns a tiny bit higher rating than Colony just because the sense of place resonated for me more. Probably be cause a good portion of Hill Towns was set in Tennessee.

[Corinne · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm not a fan of abridged books on audio. I think they're simply a bad idea. I got this Anne Rivers Siddons collections from Paperbackswap because I've been on a bit of a kick with her, but this was a waste of time. It seems like all of the literary worth was stipped of the books to make them pure plot. In doing so, they felt more like soap operas of nonstop action than books. I can't say whether Colony or Hill Towers are good books because what I got was, I'm certain, nothing like the real things. Whatever you do, don't both with these abridged versions.

[Susan Laine]

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[Nancy]

I read all of Siddons books. Good southern writer ... Easy to read ...