When Madeline Was Young (Audiobook) app for iPhone and iPad

This application contains a professional recording of When Madeline Was Young -- wrapped in a beautiful and elegant player to create an immersive and enjoyable audiobook experience.

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When Aaron Macivers beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a seven-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they raise two children of their own. Narrated by Aarons son Mac, When Madeline Was Young chronicles the Maciver family through the decades, from Macs childhood growing up in Wisconsin with Madeline and his cousin Buddy, through the Vietnam War, his years as a husband with children of his own, and his cousins involvement in the subsequent Gulf Wars. Jane Hamilton, with not only her usual keen observations of human relationships but also her humor, deftly explores the Macivers unusual situation as she examines notions of childhood (through
Mac and Buddys actual youth as well as Madelines infantilization) and a rivalry between Buddys and Macs families that spans decades and various wars. She captures the pleasures and frustrations of marriage and family and exposes the role that past relationships, rivalries, and regrets inevitably play in the lives of adults. Inspired in part by Elizabeth Spencers The Light in the Piazza, Hamilton offers an honest, exquisite portrait of how a family tragedy forever shapes and alters the boundaries of love.

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Player Features:
- Background playback and Retina Display enabled (Specific devices required)
- Automatic bookmarking to keep track of your place for you
- Gorgeous user interface to create an immersive reading experience
- Notes - Allows you to write down thoughts as you listen and email them to yourself or friends.
- Preloaded with content to allow for offline use