| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
9 audio discs (11 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital optical stereo rda |
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audio file CD audio rda |
| Note |
Title from container. |
| Performer |
Read by Peter Berkrot, Johnny Heller, Malcolm Hillgartner, Jim Meskimen, Joe Barrett, Bernadette Dunne, Bronson Pinchot, Carrington MacDuffie, Susan Boyce, Kevin Kenerly, Meredith Mitchell, and Ralph Lister. |
| Note |
Duration: 11:00:00. |
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Compact discs. |
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"Tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking"--Container. |
| Contents |
Foreword: Running toward the bombs / Kevin Cullen -- Walking an American avenue / Mike Barnicle -- Pride or prejudice / Andrø Aciman -- The former legends / E. M. Swift -- A boy's Boston / Charles McGrath -- Things in threes / Madeleine Blais -- Getting over Boston / George Howe Colt -- Accents, or the missing r / Susan Orlean -- Bonfire of the memories / David M. Shribman -- A city not on a hill / Joan Wickersham -- Our chowder / David Michaelis -- Boston, 1972 / Katherine A. Powers -- Transplants / Jabari Asim -- Diamonds (and dugouts) are a girl's best friend / Lesley Visser -- Next step: Back Bay / Hugh Delehanty -- Medora goes to the game / George Plimpton -- The everything bagel / Leslie Epstein -- Wounded, Boston's heart remains strong / Bud Collins -- So you want to be in pictures / Nell Scovell -- America's brain / Israel Horovitz -- Front row on the Charles / Shira Springer -- Messing with the wrong city / Dennis Lehane -- Boston a la carte / Susan Sheehan -- Our Boston and theirs / James Atlas -- Bothering Bill Russell / Leigh Montville -- From somewhere / Tova Mirvis -- Boston marriage / Pagan Kennedy -- Reading around Boston / Scott Stossel -- Souvenir of the ancient world / Robert Pinsky -- Boston sports: something for everyone to love...and complain about / Bill Littlefield -- The landscape of home / Carlo Rotella -- Thinking locally, acting globally / Neil Swidey -- Jamaica Pond: my Walden / Jessica Shattuck -- Hub fans bid kid adieu / John Updike -- The classroom of the real / Pico Iyer -- This is the way I point my view / Sally Taylor. |
| Subject |
Boston (Mass.) -- Literary collections.
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American literature -- 21st century.
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| Added Author |
Blauner, Andrew, editor of compilation.
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Berkrot, Peter, narrator.
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Heller, Johnny, narrator.
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Hillgartner, Malcolm, narrator.
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Meskimen, Jim, narrator.
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Barrett, Joe, 1950-, narrator.
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Dunne, Bernadette, narrator.
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Pinchot, Bronson, narrator.
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MacDuffie, Carrington, 1958-, narrator.
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Boyce, Susan, narrator.
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Kenerly, Kevin, narrator.
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Mitchell, Meredith (Narrator), narrator.
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Lister, Ralph, 1971-, narrator.
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Blackstone Audio, Inc., publisher.
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| ISBN |
9781483006093 (library ed.) |
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1483006093 (library ed.) |
| Music No. |
Z9583 Blackstone Audio |
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