The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

  • Author: Andrew Sean Greer
  • Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA
  • Duration: 7:56:33
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Synopsis

1985. After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the breakup with her longtime lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives she might have had if she'd been born in different eras.

During the course of her treatment, Greta cycles between her own time and alternate lives in 1918, where she is a bohemian adulteress, and 1941, which transforms her into a devoted mother and wife. Separated by time and social mores, Greta's three lives are remarkably similar, fraught with familiar tensions and difficult choices. Each reality has its own losses, its own rewards, and each extracts a different price. And the modern Greta learns that her alternate selves are unpredictable, driven by their own desires and needs.

As her final treatment looms, questions arise: What will happen once each Greta learns how to remain in one of the other worlds? Who will choose to stay in which life?

Magically atmospheric, achingly romantic, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells beautifully imagines "what if" and wondrously wrestles with the impossibility of what could be.

Chapters

  • 001 - The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

    Duration: 38s
  • 002 - Part 01 - October 30th 1985

    Duration: 42min
  • 003 - October 31st 1918

    Duration: 31min
  • 004 - November 1st 1941

    Duration: 01h02min
  • 005 - November 7th 1985

    Duration: 04min
  • 006 - November 8th 1918

    Duration: 57min
  • 007 - November 14th 1941

    Duration: 01min
  • 008 - November 15th 1945

    Duration: 01min
  • 009 - Part 02 - December 4th 1985

    Duration: 15min
  • 010 - December 5th 1918

    Duration: 08min
  • 011 - December 6th 1941

    Duration: 33min
  • 012 - December 12th 1985

    Duration: 08min
  • 013 - December 13th 1918

    Duration: 14min
  • 014 - Part 03 - December 15th 1918

    Duration: 22min
  • 015 - December 19th 1941

    Duration: 15min
  • 016 - December 24th 1985

    Duration: 13min
  • 017 - December 26th 1918

    Duration: 08min
  • 018 - December 27th 1941

    Duration: 18min
  • 019 - January 2nd 1986

    Duration: 02min
  • 020 - January 3rd 1919

    Duration: 37min
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