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Twenty Minutes: A Woman without a Country

A Woman without a Country

23/08/2010

BBC Radio 3 - Twenty Minutes, A Woman without a Country

John Cheever's story about a young American woman who graces Europe's glamour spots.

Nathan Osgood reads John Cheever's classic short story about a young woman whose moment of scandal in suburban America causes her to flee to Europe.

"I saw her that spring between the third and fourth races at Campino with the Conte de Capra - the one with the mustache"

John Cheever's classic short story is about a young woman whose moment of scandal in suburban America causes her to flee to Europe, starting with Genoa. But she later turns up at all the best watering-holes across the continent. She is restless. She is homesick. Then a momentous decision to return to America seems best for her, until that song is heard at Idlewild Airport...

The story of a young American woman, who graces the 
best watering holes of Europe, ever restless...

Read by Nathan Osgood
Producer Duncan Minshull.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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