Porch Swings, Parlors & Pryin’ Eyes: Gossip, Gumption, and the Glories of Small-Town Life: Audiobook
Book 5 of the A Kaleidoscope of American Storytellers series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Porch Swings, Parlors & Pryin’ Eyes: Gossip, Gumption, and the Glories of Small-Town Life audiobook runs 8.2 hours unabridged, narrated by A.J. Schuck and Shannon Nicole Locke and others (about 5.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 8.2 hours of listening.
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| 30 min / day | 17 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 8.2 hours, it runs longer than 68% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Shannon Nicole Locke
Shannon Nicole Locke narrates 9 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 76 hours in all.
About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf
611 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Porch Swings, Parlors & Pryin’ Eyes: Gossip, Gumption, and the Glories of Small-Town Life is book 5 of May McHenry's A Kaleidoscope of American Storytellers series: a 8.2-hour unabridged recording, read by A.J. Schuck, Shannon Nicole Locke and Alex Picard and others, released November 5, 2025, on the Classics (Literature) and Essays & Anthologies shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- A.J. Schuck, Shannon Nicole Locke, Alex Picard, Emma Faye, John Hopkinson, Rebecca Stern
- Released
- November 5, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Classics (Literature), Essays & Anthologies
- Series
- A Kaleidoscope of American Storytellers #5
- ISBN
- 9798260881477
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How long is the Porch Swings, Parlors & Pryin’ Eyes: Gossip, Gumption, and the Glories of Small-Town Life audiobook?
Porch Swings, Parlors & Pryin’ Eyes: Gossip, Gumption, and the Glories of Small-Town Life runs 8.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.5 hours.
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Who narrates Porch Swings, Parlors & Pryin’ Eyes: Gossip, Gumption, and the Glories of Small-Town Life?
Porch Swings, Parlors & Pryin’ Eyes: Gossip, Gumption, and the Glories of Small-Town Life is narrated by A.J. Schuck, Shannon Nicole Locke, Alex Picard and Emma Faye and others.