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Beautiful Children

A Novel
Bock, Charles (Downloadable Audiobook - 2008)
Beautiful Children


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One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn't come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son's room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy's father, Lincoln, finds himself

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One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn't come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son's room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy's father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of intimacy. As the Ewings navigate the mystery of what's become of their son, the circumstances surrounding Newell's vanishing and other events on that same night reverberate through the lives of seemingly disconnected strangers: a comic book illustrator in town for a weekend of debauchery; a painfully shy and possibly disturbed young artist; a stripper who imagines moments from her life as if they were movie scenes; a bubbly teenage wiccan anarchist; a dangerous and scheming gutter punk; a band of misfit runaways. These "urban nomads," each with a past to hide and a pain to nurture, weave their way through a neon underworld of sex, drugs, and the spinning wheels of chance.

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Additional Contributors: Deakins, Mark
Imprint: New York - Books on Tape
Call number: Downloadable audiobook
Language: English
Performers: Read by Mark Deakins.
Notes: DO NOT PLACE HOLD HERE. CLICK ON LINK TO ACCESS FILE
Spoken audio file that can be listened to on a portable device
Title from: Title details screen
Unabridged
Duration: 9:05:32
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 130669 KB)
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Statement of responsibility: Charles Bock
Author (Original Script): Bock, Charles
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