The Resource Tiny Americans : a novel, Devin Murphy, (sound recording)
Tiny Americans : a novel, Devin Murphy, (sound recording)
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The item Tiny Americans : a novel, Devin Murphy, (sound recording) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Tiny Americans : a novel, Devin Murphy, (sound recording) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Abandoned by the alcoholic father who idealised the natural world without imparting any survival skills to his children, three siblings in 1970s New York embark on difficult adult lives before their father attempts a reconciliation. Western New York, 1978: Jamie, Lewis, and Connor Thurber watch their parents' destructive dance of loving, hating, and drinking. Terrance Thurber spends this year teaching his children about the natural world: they listen to the heartbeat of trees, track animal footprints, sleep under the star-filled sky. Despite these lessons, he doesn't show them how to survive without him. And when these seasons of trying and failing to quit booze and be a better man are over, Terrance is gone. Alone with their artist mother, Catrin, the Thurber children are left to grapple with the anger they feel for the one parent who deserted them and a growing resentment for the one who didn't. As Catrin withdraws into her own world, Jamie throws herself into painting while her brothers smash out their rage in brutal, no-holds-barred football games with neighbourhood kids. Once they can leave - Jamie for college, Lewis for the navy, and Connor for work - they don't look back. But Terrance does. Crossing the country, sobering up, and starting over has left him with razor-sharp regret. Terrance doesn't know that Jamie, now an academic, inhabits an ever-shrinking circle of loneliness; that Lewis, a merchant marine, fears life on dry land; that Connor struggles to connect with the son he sees teetering on an all-too-familiar edge. He only knows that he has one last try to build a bridge, through the years, to his family. Composed of a series of touchstone moments, this is a thrilling and bittersweet rendering of a family that, much like the tides, continues to come together and drift apart
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- MP3 edition.
- Extent
- 1 MP3 disc (approximately 7 hours)
- Note
-
- Unabridged
- Compact disc
- Isbn
- 9781982610227
- Label
- Tiny Americans : a novel
- Title
- Tiny Americans
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Devin Murphy
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Abandoned by the alcoholic father who idealised the natural world without imparting any survival skills to his children, three siblings in 1970s New York embark on difficult adult lives before their father attempts a reconciliation. Western New York, 1978: Jamie, Lewis, and Connor Thurber watch their parents' destructive dance of loving, hating, and drinking. Terrance Thurber spends this year teaching his children about the natural world: they listen to the heartbeat of trees, track animal footprints, sleep under the star-filled sky. Despite these lessons, he doesn't show them how to survive without him. And when these seasons of trying and failing to quit booze and be a better man are over, Terrance is gone. Alone with their artist mother, Catrin, the Thurber children are left to grapple with the anger they feel for the one parent who deserted them and a growing resentment for the one who didn't. As Catrin withdraws into her own world, Jamie throws herself into painting while her brothers smash out their rage in brutal, no-holds-barred football games with neighbourhood kids. Once they can leave - Jamie for college, Lewis for the navy, and Connor for work - they don't look back. But Terrance does. Crossing the country, sobering up, and starting over has left him with razor-sharp regret. Terrance doesn't know that Jamie, now an academic, inhabits an ever-shrinking circle of loneliness; that Lewis, a merchant marine, fears life on dry land; that Connor struggles to connect with the son he sees teetering on an all-too-familiar edge. He only knows that he has one last try to build a bridge, through the years, to his family. Composed of a series of touchstone moments, this is a thrilling and bittersweet rendering of a family that, much like the tides, continues to come together and drift apart
- Cataloging source
- NLAV
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Murphy, Devin,
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- Literary text for sound recordings
- fiction
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Read by Anne Marie Lee, Kirby Heyborne, Andrew Eiden, and Christian Baskous
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
-
- Lee, Ann Marie
- Heyborne, Kirby
- Eiden, Andrew
- Baskous, Christian
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Children of alcoholics
- Father and child
- Brothers and sisters
- New York (N.Y.)
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- Tiny Americans : a novel, Devin Murphy, (sound recording)
- Note
-
- Unabridged
- Compact disc
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
-
- audio disc
- computer disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- cd
- Carrier MARC source
-
- rdacarrier
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000065308859
- Dimensions
- 12 cm.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- MP3 edition.
- Extent
- 1 MP3 disc (approximately 7 hours)
- Form of item
- direct electronic
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781982610227
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other physical details
- digital
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1102822717
- System details
- MP3 System requirements: MP3-CD player or PC with MP3-capable software
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- Tiny Americans : a novel, Devin Murphy, (sound recording)
- Note
-
- Unabridged
- Compact disc
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
-
- audio disc
- computer disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- cd
- Carrier MARC source
-
- rdacarrier
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000065308859
- Dimensions
- 12 cm.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- MP3 edition.
- Extent
- 1 MP3 disc (approximately 7 hours)
- Form of item
- direct electronic
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781982610227
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other physical details
- digital
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1102822717
- System details
- MP3 System requirements: MP3-CD player or PC with MP3-capable software
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
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