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List of All Possible Desires
Rainey Royal Cycle (Related to this series)
- Author
- Dylan Landis
- Narrator
- Sophie Amoss
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 5 May 2026
- Run Time
- 8 hours 18 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A dazzling novel in stories from a master of the form that follows the Royal family across generations of obsession, betrayal, and reinvention.
For fans of Mary Gaitskill and Lauren Groff.
In postwar Paris, a boy is seduced by his mysterious nanny into the world of adult secrets. In 1950s New York City, a naïve caretaker struggles to protect her charge, a married woman paralyzed by her recent stroke, as new bruises appear each day on her body. In the 1970s, a fragile cousin wanders into the Royal family’s jazz-soaked townhouse, where music, sex, and ruin intertwine. And at the heart of these stories is Rainey Royal herself, coming of age in Greenwich Village, inventing herself as an artist through the tumult of the ’70s and ’80s.
By turns shocking, erotic, and deeply humane, List of All Possible Desires is a haunting portrait of family and history—written with Landis’s trademark beauty and precision.
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Details
- Author
- Dylan Landis
- Narrator
- Sophie Amoss
- Duration
- 8 hours 18 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 May 2026
- ISBN
- 9798899745522
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age
Synopsis
A dazzling novel in stories from a master of the form that follows the Royal family across generations of obsession, betrayal, and reinvention. For fans of Mary Gaitskill and Lauren Groff. In postwar Paris, a boy is seduced by his mysterious nanny into the world of adult secrets. In 1950s New York City, a naïve caretaker struggles to protect her charge, a married woman paralyzed by her recent stroke, as new bruises appear each day on her body. In the 1970s, a fragile cousin wanders into the Royal family’s jazz-soaked townhouse, where music, sex, and ruin intertwine. And at the heart of these stories is Rainey Royal herself, coming of age in Greenwich Village, inventing herself as an artist through the tumult of the ’70s and ’80s. By turns shocking, erotic, and deeply humane, List of All Possible Desires is a haunting portrait of family and history—written with Landis’s trademark beauty and precision.
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