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Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 168301 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
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Duration: 11:42:35. |
| Performer |
Read by Simon Vance. |
| Summary |
At 61, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels and listening to a bit of light jazz. Then his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting re-married, to the deeply inappropriate Ray. Katie's mother Jean is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned, which get in the way of her quite fulfilling late-life affair with one of her husband's ex-colleagues. Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind. The way these damaged people fall apart - and come together - as a family is the true subject of Haddon's disturbing yet amusing portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely. |
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Middle-aged men -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Mortality -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Vance, Simon.
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| ISBN |
0739346466 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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9780739346464 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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