E-audiobook
A spot of bother a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0739346466 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 9780739346464 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : Books on Tape, 2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 11:42:35. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Simon Vance. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 168301 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Middle-aged men -- Fiction Mortality -- Fiction |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
At 61, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels and listening to a bit of light jazz. Then his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting re-married, to the deeply inappropriate Ray. Katie's mother Jean is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned, which get in the way of her quite fulfilling late-life affair with one of her husband's ex-colleagues. Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind. The way these damaged people fall apart - and come together - as a family is the true subject of Haddon's disturbing yet amusing portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.
