The Cider House Rules

By John Irving
I spent my re-read of Deathly Hallows with the other two authors from the charity event I attended last year. Stephen King organized a fund raiser for The Haven Foundation and Doctors Without Borders. He read from his work as did J.K. Rowling and John Irving. My three favorite authors in one setting at Radio City Music Hall. It was heaven!
Anyway to recreate the triumvirate I listened to The Cider House Rules on audio book. Cider House is one of my favorite Irving novels. It doesn't deal with the usual issues of his main characters and this has a nice historical backdrop of the US during the first half of the 20th century. It also goes into detail about a controversial subject, abortion. I must say reading the graphic detail and hearing it are two different things. Reading any of it doesn't phase me, but hearing the squelchier details was a little much. The narrator Grover Gardener has a suitable reading voice. He doesn't do "voices", but I don't think " voices " are necessary for the story. It sound's as if Homer Wells himself were telling the tale at the end of his life.