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Author Preston, John, 1953- author.

Title The dig / John Preston.

Publication Info. [Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., [2016]
℗2016

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  CDBOOK FIC PRESTON, J    Check Shelf
Edition Unabridged.
Description 6 audio discs (7 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 070000
Description digital optical rda
audio file CD audio rda
Performer Read by Simon Vance, Kate Reading, Fiona Hardingham, and Derek Perkins.
Note Compact discs.
Summary Reimagining the Sutton Hoo dig, the greatest Anglo-Saxon archaeological discovery on British soil, John Preston brilliantly dramatizes three months of intense activity on a small estate when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure. In the long hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. Mrs. Pretty, a widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As an archaeological dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find, and the discovery leads to a host of jealousies and tensions. Elegantly crafted with great tenderness and a poignant attention to detail, The Dig is more than a novel about archeology. At its very core, this is a novel about the traces of life we all leave behind.
Note Vendor-supplied metadata.
Subject FICTION / Historical.
FICTION / Literary.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- England -- East Anglia -- Fiction.
Landowners -- England -- East Anglia -- Fiction.
Widows -- England -- East Anglia -- Fiction.
Sutton Hoo Ship Burial (England) -- Fiction.
Excavations (Archaeology) (OCoLC)fst00917564
Landowners. (OCoLC)fst00991750
Widows. (OCoLC)fst01174951
England -- East Anglia. (OCoLC)fst01243626
England -- Sutton Hoo Ship Burial. (OCoLC)fst01246012
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Audiobooks.
Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
Added Author Vance, Simon, narrator.
Reading, Kate, narrator.
Hardingham, Fiona, narrator.
Perkins, Derek, narrator.
Standard No. 9781504689960
ISBN 1504689941
9781504689946
9781504689960
1504689968
Music No. Zbq1h Blackstone Audiobooks
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