The Resource My absolute darling : a novel, Gabriel Tallent
My absolute darling : a novel, Gabriel Tallent
Resource Information
The item My absolute darling : a novel, Gabriel Tallent represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester-by-the-Sea Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item My absolute darling : a novel, Gabriel Tallent represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester-by-the-Sea Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul.Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father. Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. The reader tracks Turtle's escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, and watches, heart in throat, as she struggles to become her own hero--and in the process, becomes ours as well. Shot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 13 audio discs (15 hr., 48 min.)
- Note
-
- Title from web page
- Compact discs
- Isbn
- 9780525497929
- Label
- My absolute darling : a novel
- Title
- My absolute darling
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Gabriel Tallent
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul.Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father. Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. The reader tracks Turtle's escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, and watches, heart in throat, as she struggles to become her own hero--and in the process, becomes ours as well. Shot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tallent, Gabriel
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- LC call number
- PS3620.A454
- LC item number
- M9 2017ab
- Literary text for sound recordings
- fiction
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Read by Alex McKenna
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1984-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- McKenna, Alex
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Orphans
- Friendship
- Teenagers
- Friendship
- Orphans
- Teenagers
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- My absolute darling : a novel, Gabriel Tallent
- Note
-
- Title from web page
- Compact discs
- 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
- Control code
- ocn967500740
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 13 audio discs (15 hr., 48 min.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9780525497929
- 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
- CD audio, digital
- Publisher number
- PRHA 6930
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)967500740
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- My absolute darling : a novel, Gabriel Tallent
- Note
-
- Title from web page
- Compact discs
- 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
- Control code
- ocn967500740
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 13 audio discs (15 hr., 48 min.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9780525497929
- 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
- CD audio, digital
- Publisher number
- PRHA 6930
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)967500740
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
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