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    Kyra: A Novel
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    Audiobook9 hours

    Kyra: A Novel

    Written by Carol Gilligan

    Narrated by Justine Eyre and Mark Deakins

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    About this audiobook

    An unforgettable novel about love-and the first work of fiction by the author of the groundbreaking nonfiction bestseller In a Different Voice.

    Kyra is an architect, involved in a project to design a new city. Andreas, a theater director, is staging an innovative production of the opera Tosca. Both have come through political upheaval and personal loss. Neither wants to fall in love. Yet when she asks him, "What is the opposite of losing?" and he says, "Finding," it galvanizes a powerful attraction, and they risk opening themselves to love once again.

    When their love affair leads to a shocking betrayal, Kyra's fierce determination to see under the surface, to know what was true and real, brings her to Greta, a remarkable therapist. As the therapy itself repeats the themes of love and loss, Kyra challenges its structure, and the struggle that ensues between the two women opens the way to a larger understanding.

    Passionate and revolutionary, KYRA is an exquisitely written love story, imbued with gentle humor. This is an extraordinary work of fiction by one of the most brilliant writers of our time.


    From the Compact Disc edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 15, 2008
    ISBN9780739359402
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    Kyra: A Novel
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    Carol Gilligan

    Carol Gilligan is the author of the groundbreaking book, In a Different Voice. In 1997 she became the first gender studies professor at Harvard and she now teaches at New York University. She has been awarded Spencer, Grawemeyer, and Heinz Awards and named one of the twenty-five most influential Americans by Time magazine. Recent works include The Birth of Pleasure, Kyra: A Novel, The Deepening Darkness, The Scarlet Letter (a play), Why Does Patriarchy Persist? (with Naomi Snider), and Darkness Now Visible (with David J. Richards).

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    • 4/5
      I really liked the way the story started, a discussion on architecture, a love story that ends abruptly, music, introspection - sometimes a bit heavy but lulling. The second part, however, where Kyra goes into psychoanalysis is lumbering and narrow. As she explores love, it's limited to romantic love with vague allusions to other types of love. Although an attempt to rethink the process, the author locks herself into structure, the very opposite of what she wants: it lacks expressiveness, newness, wholeness. I lost interest after that; it just became another story. It's a shame because the novel has a strong foundation.