Audio Book Demo - Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil

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Description

Voodoo. Decadent socialites packing Lugars. Cotillions. With towns like Savannah, Georgia, who needs Fellini? This recounting of a real life murder by John Berendt, is based on events that took place in Savannah, Georgia in the 1980s.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (General) North American (US Midwest- Chicago, Great Lakes) North American (US South)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
This is from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Barrett. He was tall, about 50 with dark, handsome, almost sinister features. A neatly trimmed moustache, hair turning silver at the temple, and I so black they were like that tinted windows of a sleek limousine. He could see out, but you couldn't see him. We were sitting in the living room of his Victorian house. It was Mercer House, one of the last of Savannah's great houses, still in private hands. Jim Williams lived in it alone. He was smoking a King Edward cigarillo. What I enjoy most, he said, is living like an aristocrat without the burden of having to be one blue Bloods air. So inbred week. All those generations of importance and grandeur live up to. No wonder they lack ambition. Now I don't envy them. It's only the trappings of aristocracy that I find worthwhile. The fine furniture, the paintings and the silver, the very things that they have to sell when the money runs out and it always does. Then older left with Is there lovely manners