The Resource Ordinary decent criminals : a novel, Lionel Shriver, (sound recording audiobook CD)
Ordinary decent criminals : a novel, Lionel Shriver, (sound recording audiobook CD)
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The item Ordinary decent criminals : a novel, Lionel Shriver, (sound recording audiobook CD) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Public Libraries of Suffolk County, New York.
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- Summary
- A new edition of one of bestselling author Lionel Shriver's early novels, reissued 25 years after first publication--an engrossing commentary on the intersection of politics and human relationships, set in turbulent Northern Ireland. For ten years, Estrin Lancaster has fled Philadelphia. From the Philippines to Berlin, she's been a traveler without a destination, an expatriate without a motherland. In each of the cities Estrin favors, she manages an apartment, a job, a lover, and never tarries past the first signs of ennui. Her latest destination is Belfast, in Northern Ireland. After twenty years of ritualized violence, this city, too, is exhausted--a town where when one more bomb explodes in the city center, old ladies blow the dust off their treacle cakes and count their change. Here the lanky and spiteful Farrell O'Phelan, former purveyor of his own bomb-disposal service, technically Catholic but everyone's aggravation, wrangles through the maze of factions in the North by despising every side. Farrell's affair with the curious Estrin is nonetheless a meeting of two loners; like hers, Farrell's marathoning around the planet has become a running in place. In deadlocked Northern Ireland, it has become harder and harder to believe that anything is happening at all. A grand tragi-comedy--one of the earliest displays of the ambition and intelligence that has since earned Lionel Shriver worldwide acclaim--Ordinary Decent Criminals is about conflict groupies, people terrified of domesticity, who stir up anguish in their lives and their countries to avoid the greater horror of what lies closest to home
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 13 audio discs (16 hrs., 15 min.)
- Note
- Compact disc
- Isbn
- 9781504643511
- Label
- Ordinary decent criminals : a novel
- Title
- Ordinary decent criminals
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Lionel Shriver
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A new edition of one of bestselling author Lionel Shriver's early novels, reissued 25 years after first publication--an engrossing commentary on the intersection of politics and human relationships, set in turbulent Northern Ireland. For ten years, Estrin Lancaster has fled Philadelphia. From the Philippines to Berlin, she's been a traveler without a destination, an expatriate without a motherland. In each of the cities Estrin favors, she manages an apartment, a job, a lover, and never tarries past the first signs of ennui. Her latest destination is Belfast, in Northern Ireland. After twenty years of ritualized violence, this city, too, is exhausted--a town where when one more bomb explodes in the city center, old ladies blow the dust off their treacle cakes and count their change. Here the lanky and spiteful Farrell O'Phelan, former purveyor of his own bomb-disposal service, technically Catholic but everyone's aggravation, wrangles through the maze of factions in the North by despising every side. Farrell's affair with the curious Estrin is nonetheless a meeting of two loners; like hers, Farrell's marathoning around the planet has become a running in place. In deadlocked Northern Ireland, it has become harder and harder to believe that anything is happening at all. A grand tragi-comedy--one of the earliest displays of the ambition and intelligence that has since earned Lionel Shriver worldwide acclaim--Ordinary Decent Criminals is about conflict groupies, people terrified of domesticity, who stir up anguish in their lives and their countries to avoid the greater horror of what lies closest to home
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- Shriver, Lionel
- Dewey number
- FIC
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- LC call number
- PS3569.H742
- Literary text for sound recordings
- fiction
- PerformerNote
- Read by Melanie MacHugh
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- MacHugh, Melanie
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- Label
- Ordinary decent criminals : a novel, Lionel Shriver, (sound recording audiobook CD)
- Note
- Compact disc
- Capture and storage technique
- unknown
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
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- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
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- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 13 audio discs (16 hrs., 15 min.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781504643511
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- s
- Other physical details
- digital
- Publisher number
- Zbnlw
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- Ordinary decent criminals : a novel, Lionel Shriver, (sound recording audiobook CD)
- Note
- Compact disc
- Capture and storage technique
- unknown
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 13 audio discs (16 hrs., 15 min.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781504643511
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other physical details
- digital
- Publisher number
- Zbnlw
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
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