Among the ten thousand things A Novel
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- ISBN: 9781101912904 (sound recording)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (8 audio files) : digital
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electronic - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Audio, 2015.
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General Note: | Unabridged. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrator: Hillary Huber. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 255960 KB). |
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Genre: | Electronic books. |
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Summary:
For fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Among the Ten Thousand Things is a dazzling first novel, a portrait of an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and a startlingly original story of love and time lost. Jack Shanley is a well-known New York artist, charming and vain, who doesn't mean to plunge his family into crisis. His wife, Deb, gladly left behind a difficult career as a dancer to raise the two children she adores. In the ensuing years, she has mostly avoided coming face-to-face with the weaknesses of the man she married. But then an anonymously sent package arrives in the mail: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling Jack's secret life. The package is addressed to Deb, but it's delivered into the wrong hands: her children's. With this vertiginous opening begins a debut that is by turns funny, wise, and indescribably moving. As the Shanleys spin apart...