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1 online resource (1 audio file (20hr., 38 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Narrated by Anna Fields. |
| Summary |
This last great work by one of the century's great writers is a large and original novel of betrayal and self-delusion, madness and consuming passions, that recreates to chilling effect the political turbulence of the American Left and the clamor and menace of the McCarthy Right. Not since her classic The Man Who Loved Children has Stead fashioned such willful and memorable characters as Emily Wilks and Stephen Howard. Emily is a woman of enormous but mercurial enthusiasms whose unflagging ebullience masks a darkness that will lead to disaster. Stephen-handsome, clever, spoiled-is a dangerous dreamer, an upper-class dropout playing at radical politics. Together, they mirror the times through which they live: the heady revolutionary fervor of the Depression, the short collaborative effort of wartime America, the fractiousness of the Cold War years. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989 -- Fiction.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Fields, Anna. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982410384 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982410388 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12396976 |
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