| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 18 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Karen Cass. |
| Summary |
Paper Moon meets the Blitz in this original black comedy, set in World War II England, chronicling an unlikely alliance between a small time con artist and a young orphan evacuee. When Noel Bostock-aged ten, no family-is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb northwest of the city with Vera Sedge-a thirty-six-year old widow drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money, she's unscrupulous about how she gets it. Noel's mourning his godmother Mattie, a former suffragette. Wise beyond his years, raised with a disdain for authority and an eclectic attitude toward education, he has little in common with other children and even less with the impulsive Vee, who hurtles from one self-made crisis to the next. The war's provided unprecedented opportunities for making money, but what Vee needs-and what she's never had-is a cool head and the ability to make a plan. On her own, she's a disaster. With Noel, she's a team. Together, they cook up a scheme. Crisscrossing the bombed suburbs of London, Vee starts to make a profit and Noel begins to regain his interest in life. But there are plenty of other people making money out of the war-and some of them are dangerous. Noel may have been moved to safety, but he isn't actually safe at all. . . . |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- London -- Fiction.
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London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950 -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Cass, Karen, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9780062415448 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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0062415441 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11587730 |
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