| Description |
4 audio discs (5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
In container (17 cm.). |
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Title from container. |
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"Sound Library"--Container. |
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"Complete & Unabridged"--Container. |
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"Digitally Mastered"--Container. |
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Compact disc. |
| Performer |
Read by David Colacci and Susan Ericksen. |
| Summary |
In the title story, a middle-aged academic who had been an anti-apartheid activist embarks on an unadmitted pursuit of the possibilities for his own racial identity in his great-grandfather's fortune-hunting interlude of living rough on diamond diggings in South Africa, his young wife far away in London. "Dreaming of the Dead" conjures up a lunch in a New York Chinese restaurant where Susan Sontag and Edward Said return in surprising new avatars as guests in the dream of a loving friend. The historian in "History" is a parrot who confronts people with the scandalizing voice reproduction of quarrels and clandestine love-talk on which it has eavesdropped. "Alternative Endings" considers the way writers make arbitrary choices in how to end stories--and offers three, each relating the same situation, but with a different resolution, arrived at by the three senses: sight, sound, and smell. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Senses and sensation -- Fiction.
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Short stories.
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Colacci, David. Narrator.
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Ericksen, Susan. Narrator.
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| Added Title |
Beethovan was 1/16th black |
| ISBN |
9780792750550 |
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0792750551 |
| Music No. |
SLD 1201 BBC Audiobooks America |
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