Найти книгу: "Captive Audience"

Author lives in Chicago, and many of the stories are set there, so the collection should have good regional appeal. One of the stories in the collection, «The Regular» was nominated by Charles D'Ambrosio as the winner of the Emerging Writers Network Short Story Competition. Every story in the collection is about some aspect of performing, or performance, with a particular emphasis on music. Two of the stories feature celebrities; Abe Vigoda is the main character in one of the stories, so the book should appeal to Abe's legion of fans. REM (the band) is featured in another story. Features strong blurbs from well-known male authors like Scott Turow, David Leavitt and Kevin Guilfoile.

Полный вариант заголовка: «The Captives. : A tragedy. As it acted at the theatre-Royal in Drury-lane, by His Majesty's Servants».

France, XVII century. Young Arabella, not knowing that such wealth and luxury, gets an invitation to the ball. Drugged to flatter the monarch, an innocent girl not notice that he is in the Royal bed. But the fee for the title mistress of the king is too high. The girl will have to visit the intoxicating harem of the East, the flight to sit down on the bed of a hated Sultan, to appear before himself with the Sacred court. And this is only the beginning of a difficult road leading to true love.