| International Standard Book Number |
9781667035352
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| International Standard Book Number |
1667035355
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| Personal Name |
Toibin, Colm, 1955- author.
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| Title Statement |
The magician playaway / Colm Toibin.
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| Edition Statement |
Unabridged.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Solon, Ohio : Playaway Digital Audio : [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC, 2021.
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| Physical Description |
1 sound media player (approximately 16.5 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 9 x 6 cm.
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| Series Statement |
Scarred Earth saga ; bk. 01
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| General Note |
Issued on Playaway LIGHT, a dedicated audio media player.
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| General Note |
Requires one set of earphones and one AAA battery for playback.
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| General Note |
Originally published by Simon & Schuster Audio, 2021
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| Participant or Performer Note |
Performed by Gunnar Cauthery.
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| Summary, Etc. |
In a provincial German city at the turn of the 20th century, a young boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his father, and his homosexual desires from everyone. He is infatuated with the son of one of the richest, most cultured Jewish families in Munich and marries the daughter. He and Katia have six children. In the novel Buddenbrooks, he writes about his own family. On a holiday in Italy, he longs for a boy he sees on a beach and writes the novella Death in Venice. When Katia spends six months in a sanatorium, he writes The Magic Mountain. He is the most succesful novelist of his time, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a public man whose private life remains secret. He is expected to lead the condemnation of Hitler, whom he underestimates. His oldest daughter and son, leaders of bohemianism and of the anti-Nazi movement, share lovers. In 1933, the Manns flee Germany for Switzerland, France, and, ultimately, America, living first in Princeton, New Jersey, and then in Los Angeles.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Novelists, German Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Gay men Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Bohemianism Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Germany History 1871 Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States History 1945 Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Playaway (Brand name)
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Cauthery, Gunnar. narrator.
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm)
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Playaway Digital Audio.
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Findaway World, LLC.
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