| Playing Time |
221453 |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 319784 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Performer |
Read by Tom Parker. |
| Note |
Duration: 22:14:53. |
| Summary |
This grand-scale heroic comedy tells the story of the exuberant young Augie, a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Depression. While his neighborhood friends all settle down into their various chosen professions, Augie, as particular as an aristocrat, demands a special destiny. He latches on to a wild succession of occupations, proudly rejecting each one as too limiting. It is not until he tangles with a glamorous perfectionist named Thea, a huntress with a trained eagle, that his independence is seriously threatened. Luckily, his nature, like the eagle's, breaks down under the strain. He goes on to recruit himself to even more outlandish projects, but always ducks out in time to continue improvising his unconventional career. |
| Subject |
Americans -- Mexico -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Failure (Psychology) -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
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Depressions -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Young men -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Mexico -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Parker, Tom.
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Blackstone Audiobooks.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9780786103447 (OCoLC)27477573 |
| ISBN |
9780786155774 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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0786155779 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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