Selected Shorts: Tales of Betrayal - A Celebration of the Short Story (CD)

Recorded live at the Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City and at venues across the United States, these audio anthologies feature short stories from the Selected Shorts program that airs nationwide. More than 300,000 listeners tune in to this offering weekly to hear some of their favorite tales read aloud by an assortment of distinguished actors. Abraham prepares to slay Isaac; siblings fall in love with the same man; a Thai man hides his secret guilt from his best friend on draft selection day--in each betrayal, characters make choices that define their lives and suffer consequences often dire or disquieting. Among this anthology's features are Tessa Hadley's "Mother's Son" read by Shohreh Aghdashloo, Adam Haslett's "Devotion"" "read by John Shea, Rattawut Lapcharoensap's "Draft Day" read by B. D. Wong, and Galina Vromen's "Sarah's Story"" "read by Jane Curtin.""