In this wildly funny and charming memoir, Patricia Volk entertains with a unique perspective of New York in the mid-to late-twentieth century and of a bigger-than-life family that owned fourteen restaurants, including Morgen's in the garment district. Sharing life and good food for three generations, her larger-than-life Jewish family has exhibited a voracious appetite for life, making their mark in cuisine, on Wall Street, on calendars, and in society. Exhibiting a terrifyingly positive attitude and a cosmic disdain for the status quo, all of them—the tyrants, do-gooders, lovers, martyrs, and fakes—lived at full tilt.
STUFFED is Patricia Volk's wildly entertaining true story of life in a New York restaurant family, where you're never full, you're stuffed. As usual, Barbara Rosenblat's reading leaves you wanting more. This is one of those rare performances when the reader (Rosenblat) "becomes" the narrator (Volk). Every word Rosenblat utters is authentic, and her tone, volume, inflection, and remarkable sense of timing bring the story to life in a way that seems impossible on the printed page. Stuffed, which has the personality and character of a work by Saul Bellow, is funny, touching, and insightful--a description that also aptly fits Rosenblat's reading. D.J.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, 2004 Audie Award Finalist (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
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