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The Resource A thousand miles from nowhere, John Gregory Brown, (electronic resource)

A thousand miles from nowhere, John Gregory Brown, (electronic resource)

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A thousand miles from nowhere
Title
A thousand miles from nowhere
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John Gregory Brown
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eng
Summary
A tragicomic tour de force about one man's redemption through love and art. "You have lost everything, yes?" "Everything?" Henry thought; he considered the word. Had he lost everything? Fleeing New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Henry Garrett is haunted by the ruins of his marriage, a squandered inheritance, and the teaching job he inexplicably quit. He pulls into a small Virginia town after three days on the road, hoping to silence the ceaseless clamor in his head. But this quest for peace and quiet as the only guest at a roadside motel is destroyed when Henry finds himself at the center of a bizarre and violent tragedy. As a result, Henry winds up stranded at the ramshackle motel just outside the small town of Marimore, and it's there that he is pulled into the lives of those around him: Latangi, the motel's recently widowed proprietor, who seems to have a plan for Henry; Marge, a local secretary who marshals the collective energy of her women's church group; and the family of an old man, a prisoner, who dies in a desperate effort to provide for his infirm wife. For his previous novels John Gregory Brown has been lauded for his "compassionate vision of human destiny" as well as his "melodic, haunting, and rhythmic prose." With A Thousand Miles from Nowhere, he assumes his place in the tradition of such masterful storytellers as Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy, offering to readers a tragicomic tour de force about the power of art and compassion and one man's search for faith, love, and redemption
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Brown, John Gregory
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fiction
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Narrated by Kevin T Collins
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  • Collins, Kevin T.
  • Hachette Audio (Firm)
  • OverDrive, Inc
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  • Loss (Psychology)
  • Mental illness
  • Motels
  • Small cities
  • Virginia
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A thousand miles from nowhere, John Gregory Brown, (electronic resource)
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Downloadable audio file
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digital storage
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Unabridged.
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1 online resource (1 sound file (10 hr., 12 min.))
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online
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9781478941774
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unknown
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44bf6fca-31ec-4d38-a643-8da38439f449
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Z100118315
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sound
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digital recording
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other
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  • (OCoLC)953732506
  • (OCoLC)ocn953732506
  • 1263661
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Label
A thousand miles from nowhere, John Gregory Brown, (electronic resource)
Link
Publication
Note
Downloadable audio file
Antecedent source
unknown
Capture and storage technique
digital storage
Color
not applicable
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
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  • not applicable
  • unknown
Edition
Unabridged.
Extent
1 online resource (1 sound file (10 hr., 12 min.))
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Isbn
9781478941774
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not applicable
Kind of disc cylinder or tape
not applicable
Kind of material
unknown
Level of compression
unknown
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
44bf6fca-31ec-4d38-a643-8da38439f449
Publisher number
Z100118315
Quality assurance targets
unknown
Reformatting quality
access
Sound
sound
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
  • other
  • remote
Speed
other
System control number
  • (OCoLC)953732506
  • (OCoLC)ocn953732506
  • 1263661
Tape configuration
not applicable
Tape width
not applicable

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