| International Standard Book Number |
9798331714246
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| Personal Name |
Strout, Elizabeth, author.
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| Title Statement |
The things we never say playaway : a novel / Elizabeth Strout.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Solon, Ohio : Playaway Products, LLC, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
1 audio media player (6 hr., 35 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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| General Note |
Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
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| General Note |
One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
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| General Note |
Previously released by Penguin Random House, 2026.
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| Participant or Performer Note |
Read by Robert Petkoff.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Artie Dam is living a double life. He spends his days teaching history to eleventh graders, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He goes to holiday parties with his wife of three decades, makes small talk with neighbors, and, on weekends, takes his sailboat out on the beautiful Massachusetts Bay. He is, by all appearances, present and alive. But inside, Artie is plagued by feelings of isolation. He looks out at a world gone mad -- at himself and the people around him -- and turns a question over and over in his mind: How is it that we know so little about one another, even those closest to us? And then, one day, Artie learns that life has been keeping a secret from him, one that threatens to upend his entire world. Once he learns it, he is forced to chart a new course, to reconsider the relationships he holds most dearand to make peace with the mysteries at the heart of our existence. Elizabeth Strout, as we have come to expect, delivers a moving exploration of the human conditionone that brims with compassion for each and every one of her indelible characters. With exquisite prose and profound insight, The Things We Never Say takes one man's fears and loneliness and makes them universal. And in the same breath, captures the abiding love that sustains and holds us all.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Man-woman relationships Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Family secrets Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
High school teachers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Loneliness Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Psychological 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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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Petkoff, Robert, narrator.
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Playaway Digital Audio, issuing body.
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Playaway Products, LLC, issuing body.
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