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120008 |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 172531 KB; MP3 file size: 338124 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: 12:00:08. |
| Summary |
In her dazzling new novel -- her first in more than a decade -- Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the blind-sidedness of war, and the recklessness thrust on others in the name of love. As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmer-- his "Keltjin potatoes" are justifyably famous-- has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir. As the year unfolds and she is drawn deeper into each of these lives, her own life back home becomes ever more alien to her: her parents are frailer; her brother, aimless and lost in high school, contemplates joining the military. Tassie finds herself becoming more and more the stranger she felt herself to be, and as life and love unravel dramatically, even shockingly, she is forever changed. |
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Nannies -- United States -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Families -- United States. -- Sound recordings.
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Adopted children -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
BBC Audiobooks America.
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| ISBN |
9780792768395 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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0792768396 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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