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Lucifer's Child
- Author
- William Luce
- Narrator
- Julie Harris
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 10 September 1993
- Run Time
- 1 hour 40 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The spellbinding Julie Harris takes us on a magic carpet into the beautiful and haunting world of writer Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), romantic author and heroine of Out of Africa. Through her fanciful pact with Lucifer, Dinesen becomes a defiant spirit, an eccentric storytelling sorceress—passionate and wickedly witty.
Act I opens on New Year's Eve 1958, as Karen Blixen prepares for a three-month visit to the United States. Addressing the audience as an unseen ghost, she weaves together stories of her fascinating, complex, and courageous life. In Act II, the writer has returned to Denmark and is dying—yet her life-affirming spirit continues to shine through the brilliant performance of Julie Harris.
Critics Review
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“[Harris] turns in a positively regal performance.”
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Details
- Author
- William Luce
- Narrator
- Julie Harris
- Duration
- 1 hour 40 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 September 1993
- ISBN
- 9781572705937
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Plays, playscripts, Biography: general, Theatre studies
Synopsis
The spellbinding Julie Harris takes us on a magic carpet into the beautiful and haunting world of writer Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), romantic author and heroine of Out of Africa. Through her fanciful pact with Lucifer, Dinesen becomes a defiant spirit, an eccentric storytelling sorceress—passionate and wickedly witty.Act I opens on New Year's Eve 1958, as Karen Blixen prepares for a three-month visit to the United States. Addressing the audience as an unseen ghost, she weaves together stories of her fascinating, complex, and courageous life. In Act II, the writer has returned to Denmark and is dying—yet her life-affirming spirit continues to shine through the brilliant performance of Julie Harris.
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