Friday, July 6, 2007

Black Swan Green audio book

Black Swan Green - audio book - David MitchellBlack Swan Green - audio book - David Mitchell

David Mitchell comes home - to England, 1982, and the cusp of adolescence.

Jason Taylor is 13, doomed to be growing up in the most boring family in the deadest village (Black Swan Green) in the dullest county (Worcestershire) in the most tedious nation (England) on earth.

And he stammers.

13 chapters, each as self-contained as a short story, follow 13 months in his life as he negotiates the pitfalls of school and home and contends with bullies, girls and family politics.

In the distance, the Falklands conflict breaks out; close at hand, the village mobilises against a gypsy camp. And through Jason's eyes, we see what he doesn't know he knows - and watch unfold what will make him wish his life had been as uneventful as he had believed.

Vividly capturing the mood of the times - high unemployment, Cold War politics and the sunset of agrarian England - this is at once a portrait of an era and of an age: the black hole between childhood and teenagerdom.

Hear sample.
Play Windows Media Sample


Play Real Sample

Written By - David Mitchell
Narrated By - Kristopher Milnes
Published By - Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length - 6 hours
Categories - Short Stories
Download Price : $16.75

Buy Now!

Other audio book titles you may be interested in







Sherlock Holmes: The Musgrave Ritual audio book


Sherlock Holmes: The Musgrave Ritual audio book
Written By - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated By - David Ian Davies
Published By - One Voice Recordings
Length - 40 minutes
Categories - Detective

Download Price : $5.00

Sherlock Holmes must decipher an ancient ceremony to solve two baffling disappearances.
See full audio book description...

Love In A Dry Season audio book


Love In A Dry Season audio book
Written By - Shelby Foote
Narrated By - Tom Parker
Published By - Blackstone Audio Inc
Length - 8 hours
Categories - Fiction
Download Price : $32.95 $16.95

Love in a Dry Season describes an erotic and economic triangle in which two wealthy and fantastically unhappy Mississippi families, the Barcrofts and the Carrutherses, are joined by an open-faced f...
See full audio book description...

One Good Turn audio book


One Good Turn audio book
Written By - Kate Atkinson
Narrated By - Robin Atkin Downes
Published By - Hachette Audio
Length - 6 hours 30 minutes
Categories - Detective

Download Price : $24.98 $17.49

BEAUTIFUL SUMMER DAY , crowds lined up outside a theater witness a sudden act of extreme road rage - an ingenious plot from Whitbread Book of the Year Author.
See full audio book description...

Orbit - audio book


Orbit - audio book
Written By - John J. Nance
Narrated By - John J. Nance
Published By - Brilliance Audio Inc
Length - 9 hours
Categories - Technological

Download Price : $24.95

The New York Times bestselling author and “king of the modern-day aviation thriller” (Publishers Weekly) boldly goes where the imagination fears to tread…
See full audio book description...

Murder at Ford's Theatre - audio book


Murder at Ford's Theatre - audio book
Written By - Margaret Truman
Narrated By - Richard Allen
Published By - Brilliance Audio Inc
Length - 9 hours 49 minutes
Categories - Detective

Download Price : $24.95

The body of Nadia Zarinski, an attractive young woman who worked for Senator Bruce Lerner - and who volunteered at Ford's - is discovered in the alley behind the theatre. Soon a pair of mismatched...
See full audio book description...