Lucifer’s Child
About this audiobook
The spellbinding Julie Harris takes us on a magic carpet into the beautiful and haunting world of writer Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), romantic author and heroine of Out of Africa. Through her fanciful pact with Lucifer, Dinesen becomes a defiant spirit, an eccentric storytelling sorceress—passionate and wickedly witty.
Act I opens on New Year's Eve 1958, as Karen Blixen prepares for a three-month visit to the United States. Addressing the audience as an unseen ghost, she weaves together stories of her fascinating, complex, and courageous life. In Act II, the writer has returned to Denmark and is dying—yet her life-affirming spirit continues to shine through the brilliant performance of Julie Harris.
About the author
William Luce, Broadway playwright, has written numerous stage plays that have garnered multiple awards for the actors, the music, and the television productions that followed, as well as for the playwright himself, including two nominations for a Writers’ Guild Award for two CBS movies, The Last Days of Patton and The Woman He Loved. His Broadway and London success, The Belle of Amherst, spawned commissions for solo plays about Charlotte Brontë, Zelda Fitzgerald, Lillian Hellman, Isak Dinesen, and John Barrymore. He lives and writes on the Oregon coast.
Julie Harris is one of America’s most versatile and gifted performers. She starred as Lilimae Clements in the popular series Knots Landing. She is best known to theater audiences for her Tony Award–winning portrayal of poet Emily Dickinson in the one-woman show The Belle of Amherst.
