| Description |
16 sound discs (20 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Performer |
Read by Mark Deakins. |
| Note |
Unabridged. |
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Compact discs, digital recording. |
| Summary |
Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death. Eventually he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high school seniors that includes friends Sheba and Trevor Poe, glamorous twins with an alcoholic mother and a prison-escapee father; hardscrabble mountain runaways Niles and Starla Whitehead; socialite Molly Huger and her boyfriend, Chadworth Rutledge X; and an ever-widening circle whose liaisons will ripple across two decades-from 1960s counterculture through the dawn of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. |
| Subject |
Suicide victims -- Family relationships -- South Carolina -- Fiction -- Sound recordings.
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Bereavement -- Fiction -- Sound recordings.
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High school students -- Fiction -- Sound recordings.
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Charleston (S.C.) -- Fiction -- Sound recordings.
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| Local Subject |
BOOKS ON COMPACT DISC.
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| Genre |
Bildungsromans.
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| Added Author |
Deakins, Mark.
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| ISBN |
9780739382936 |
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0739382934 |
| Music No. |
RHCD 2554 Random House Audio |
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