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072402 |
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Read by various readers. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Duration: 7:24:02. |
| Summary |
These nine brilliantly inventive stories capture the eccentricities of the residents of Manhattan's West 89th Street. Five stories are set in one apartment building, where young Davie Birnbaum watches his neighbors' lives unfold. The title story reworks F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," with the hero fading away toward infancy on the third floor. In apartment 7E, a lawyer named Zauberman reenacts the life of Hawthorne's Wakefield, abandoning his family so that he can spy on them. And the proctologist in the penthouse plays Icarus and Daedalus with his misfit son. In apartment 7E, a lawyer named Zauberman reenacts the life of Hawthorne's Wakefield, abandoning his family so that he can spy on them. And the proctologist in the penthouse plays Icarus and Daedalus with his misfit son. |
| Contents |
Musee des Beaux Arts -- Bachelor party -- Curious case of Benjamin Button, 3W -- Safety -- Wakefield, 7E -- Inventor of love -- Penal colony all his own, 11E -- Speedboat -- Dead fiddler, 5E. |
| Subject |
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Apartment houses -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Jewish families -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Male friendship -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Boys -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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| Genre |
Jewish fiction.
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Audiobooks.
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| Other Form: |
Original (OCoLC)176872012 |
| ISBN |
9781433286193 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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143328619X (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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