Beautiful children [sound recording (CD)] / Charles Bock.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780739358771
- Physical Description: 8 sound discs (ca. 9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Audio, p2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Compact discs. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Mark Deakins. |
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| Subject: | CD Talking books Boys > Fiction Deserts > Fiction Missing children > Fiction Las Vegas (Nev.) > Fiction Psychological fiction |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | CD FIC Bock | 31681002013803 | CDFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The disappearance of twelve-year-old Newell Ewing and the resulting mystery brings together a group of seemingly unrelated strangers in Las Vegas--including his parents, an illustrator, a stripper, a teenage anarchist, and a group of street runaways. - Baker & Taylor
The disappearance of twelve-year-old Newell Ewing and the resulting mystery brings together the lives of a group of seemingly unrelated strangers in Las Vegas--including his parents, an illustrator, a stripper, a teenage anarchist, and a group of street runaways. A first novel. Simultaneous. - Random House, Inc.
One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesnât come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her sonâs room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boyâs father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of intimacy.
As the Ewings navigate the mystery of whatâs become of their son, the circumstances surrounding Newellâs vanishing and other events on that same night reverberate through the lives of seemingly disconnected strangers: a comic book illustrator in town for a weekend of debauchery; a painfully shy and possibly disturbed young artist; a stripper who imagines moments from her life as if they were movie scenes; a bubbly teenage wiccan anarchist; a dangerous and scheming gutter punk; a band of misfit runaways. These âurban nomads,â each with a past to hide and a pain to nurture, weave their way through a neon underworld of sex, drugs, and the spinning wheels of chance.
In this masterly debut novel, Charles Bock captures Las Vegas with unprecedented scope and nuance, providing a glimpse into a microcosm of modern America. Beautiful Children is an odyssey of heartache and redemptionâheralding the arrival of a major new writer.
