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'Selected Shorts:' The lives of women in fiction and fact

From PRI's Selected Shorts 06 April, 2008 01:26:00

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Film and stage legends Jane Fonda and Kathleen Chalfont read stories that celebrate the complex lives of women.

First, Tony Award-winner Kathleen Chalfont reads Alice McDermott's "Enough," a tale, as "Selected Shorts" host Isaiah Sheffer puts it, "about a woman who wants more food, more cuddling -- more of life."

The second reader, Jane Fonda, has certainly had a full one, and here presents an excerpt from her bestselling autobiography "My Life So Far" -- an affecting section about working with her emotionally reticent father, Henry and feisty legend Katherine Hepburn on the set of "On Golden Pond."

There are currently a dozen "Selected Shorts" thematic CDs, which feature listeners' best-loved stories, including "Baseball!," "Timeless Classics," "Food Fictions," "Travel Tales," "Falling in Love," "Edith Wharton," and most recently, "Pets!," "Tales of Betrayal," "Family Matters" and "Wartime Lives." Visit the PRI Store to purchase CDs.

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