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Astray [sound recording (audio book)] / Emma Donoghue ; read by James Langton, Khristine Hvam, Robert Petkoff, Suzanne Toren and Dion Graham.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: SoundSoundPublisher number: BAB 160109 | Bolinda AudioPublisher: Tullamarine, Victoria Bolinda Audio, [2016]Copyright date: ℗2016Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 6 audio discs (CD) (6 hr., 30 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in containerContent type:
  • spoken word
Media type:
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
ISBN:
  • 9781509811793
  • 1509811796
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Man and boy -- Onward -- The widow's cruse -- Last supper at Brown's -- Counting the days -- Snowblind -- The long way home -- The body swap -- The gift -- The lost seed -- Vanitas -- The hunt -- Daddy's girl -- What remains.
Read by James Langton, Khristine Hvam, Robert Petkoff, Suzanne Toren and Dion Graham.Summary: Counterfeiter. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's fact-inspired fictions have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters. They cross other borders, too: those of race, law, sex and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. Donoghue describes the brutal plot hatched by a slave in conjunction with his master's wife to set them both free; she draws out the difficulties of gold mining in the Yukon, even in the supposedly plentiful early days, and she takes us to an early Puritan community in Massachusetts unsettled by an invented sex scandal. Astray also includes The Hunt, a shocking confession of one soldier's violent betrayal during the American Revolution, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Short Story Award.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Talking Books Hakeke Street Library Talking Books Talking Books DON 1 Available T00605618
Total holds: 0

Man and boy -- Onward -- The widow's cruse -- Last supper at Brown's -- Counting the days -- Snowblind -- The long way home -- The body swap -- The gift -- The lost seed -- Vanitas -- The hunt -- Daddy's girl -- What remains.

Read by James Langton, Khristine Hvam, Robert Petkoff, Suzanne Toren and Dion Graham.

Counterfeiter. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's fact-inspired fictions have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters. They cross other borders, too: those of race, law, sex and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. Donoghue describes the brutal plot hatched by a slave in conjunction with his master's wife to set them both free; she draws out the difficulties of gold mining in the Yukon, even in the supposedly plentiful early days, and she takes us to an early Puritan community in Massachusetts unsettled by an invented sex scandal. Astray also includes The Hunt, a shocking confession of one soldier's violent betrayal during the American Revolution, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Short Story Award.

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