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The power of Oprah's Book Club has spread to audio and the results, so far, are excellent: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon was re-released last December and now another Oprah pick, Jane Hamilton's poignant, powerful first novel, The Book of Ruth, is available on cassette. "It should be simple to see through the past, know that I'm set free . . . but nothing much has come my way without a price." To find out what that price really is, to find real freedom, Ruth goes back over her life in a small Illinois town, limited by poverty and circumscribed by her rough, bitter mother and her odd, ne'er-do-well husband. She tells her story in so authentic a voice that you're drawn into her hard world, into her love for her husband and young son, her tolerance for what is intolerable, into the violence that shatters them all. Mare Winningham's reading underscores Ruth's authenticity, making her pain palpable and determination to overcome the odds believable.
Sukey Howard reports on spoken word audio each month. Don't miss her audio book reviews on CNN's Sunday Morning.
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